# Vault 7: Projects

This publication series is about specific projects related to the Vault 7 main publication.

### Scribbles

# Scribbles v1.0 RC1 - User Guide

1 March, 2016

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C) (S//OC/NF) Dealing with errors encountered while running Scribbles:
Sharp-eyed readers may notice that the example above generated a couple of errors. Scribbles
sometimes generates errors for transient reasons (for example, occasionally the Microsoft Office
applications do not properly clean up their resources right away). In order to properly watermark
documents after such errors, please make sure to close any currently-running Microsoft Office
applications. Once you have ensured that all running Office applications are closed, please run
Scribbles again with the same input parameters. This should watermark any documents that may
have been missed on the first pass.
Of course, if you have persistent errors watermarking any particular documents, please contact the
Scribbles developers in CCI/EDG/AED/OSB for assistance.
6. (S//OC/NF) WARNING –
Important Scribbles Application Compatibility Information
Please note that these watermarks have only been tested with Microsoft Office applications. If the
targeted end-user opens them up in a different application, such as OpenOffice or LibreOffice, the
watermark images and URLs may be visible to the end-user. For this reason, always make sure that
the host names and URL components are logically consistent with the original content. If you are
concerned that the targeted end-user may open these documents in a non-Microsoft Office application,
please take some test documents and evaluate them in the likely application before deploying them.
Also note that, depending on whether the targeted end-user downloads a watermarked document file
from an Internet file server, the Office application may open the document in "Protected View" mode.
In this case, the watermark URL will not beacon in until the user pushes the "Enable Editing" button.
7. (U) Conclusion
This document has provided basic instructions to use the Scribbles batch processing tool to inject
watermarks into multiple Microsoft Office documents. If you are having trouble using Scribbles,
or if you would like to report a bug, request new features or additions/revisions to this manual, please
contact CCI/EDG/AED/OSB for assistance.
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