Ad Click Bot (Target Ads)

Ad click bots are used to commit digital ad fraud by automatically clicking on digital advertisements to inflate the number of clicks the advertisement recieves. With non-adversary owned ads, the objective for the adversary is to extinguish the advertising budget of their target.

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Resource Development 1 Tactics

Infrastructure Acquisition

• Botnet
• Proxies
• Command & Control

Reconnaissance 1 Tactics

Specific Target

• Continual Content Scraping

Defence Bypass 4 Tactics

Mitigation Bypass

• CAPTCHA Farm
• Automated CAPTCHA Bypass
• Token Bypass

Human Emulation

• Fake Credibility Generation
• Mouse Usage
• User Agent Spoofing

Proxying

• Botnet
• User Agent Spoofing
• IP Rotation
• Domain Fronting

Smokescreening

• Volumetric Traffic Disguise

Attack Execution 1 Tactics

Fake Interaction

• Click Interaction