# Vault 7: Projects

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

### Highrise

# HighRise 2.0 Users Guide

16 December, 2013

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HighRise v2.0 User’s Guide
1. (U) Overview
(S) HighRise is an Android application designed for mobile devices running Android 4.0
to 4.3. HighRise provides a redirector function for SMS messaging. There are a
number of IOC tools that use SMS messages for communication and HighRise is a
SMS proxy that provides greater separation between devices in the field (“targets”) and
the listening post.
(S) Features at a glance:
 Proxy “incoming” SMS messages received by HighRise host to an internet LP
 Send “outgoing” SMS messages via the HighRise host
 Provide a communications channel between the HighRise field operator & the LP
 TLS/SSL secured internet communications
2. (U) Release Information
2.1 (U) Changes for HighRise v2.0
(S) HighRise 2.0 is a port of HighRise 1.4 updated to operate on Android 4.0 to 4.3
devices. In previous versions, Android allowed applications to register for handset
events immediately after the application was installed. For security reasons, in newer
versions of Android, that functionality is disabled. Therefore, the HighRise application
first must be manually run once before it will automatically run in the background or after
a reboot. As a consequence, the HighRise application now shows up in the list of
installed apps so it can be started by the HighRise operator. For CI reasons, HighRise
is the TideCheck app.
2.2 (U) Delivered Binaries
(S) Delivered binaries:
Filename: tidecheck-2.0.apk
Size: 292596 bytes
MD5SUM: 05ed39b0f1e578986b1169537f0a66fe
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