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An influence operation might flesh out its account by uploading account imagery (e.g. a profile picture), increasing its perceived authenticity.
Pictures of physically attractive people can benefit threat actors by increasing attention given to their posts.
People sometimes legitimately use images of attractive people as their profile picture, and threat actors can mimic this behaviour to avoid the risk of detection associated with stealing or AI-generating profile pictures (see T0145.001: Copy Account Imagery and T0145.002: AI-Generated Account Imagery).
This Technique is often used by Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour accounts (CIBs). A collection of accounts displaying the same behaviour using similar account imagery can indicate the presence of CIB.
Associated Techniques and Sub-techniques
T0097.109: Romantic Suitor Persona: Accounts presenting as a romantic suitor may use an attractive person in their account imagery.
T0104.002: Dating App: Analysts can use this sub-technique for tagging cases where an account has been identified as using a dating platform.",
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