Vault 7: Projects

This publication series is about specific projects related to the Vault 7 main publication.
SECRET//NOFORN
SECRET//NOFORN
Requirements
Requirements
EmotionalSimian provides access to downstream machines that
would otherwise be inaccessible. Communications between the
machine to which we have access and downstream machines use
USB thumbdrives inserted by unwitting users. Whitelisted
thumbdrives are infected upon being inserted into a machine
running EmotionalSimian. Infected thumbdrives use an exploit to
initiate execution which will then deploy a configurable payload(s)
and optionally conduct a system survey and/or collect files on a
configurable maximum number of downstream machines.