# Vault 7: Projects

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

### Athena

# Athena Progress (2015-10-14)

14 October, 2015

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Athena Progress – October 14, 2015 – 10am
Minutes:
1) Reviewed XP issues
2) Reviewed tasking for XXXXX
Achievements:
• Loader – remove PE date in header
o Loader – dynamically load virtual alloc/free/protect
• ToolHash – use same algorithm as loader (no null in hash calculation)
• Builder – DATAHERE – installer/host/ramonly
o Ramonly – add masked block(.text section with entropy masking)
o Install – add masked block (.text section with entropy masking)
 Install – mask registry/service/debuggerpresent functions
o Host - add masked block (.text section with entropy masking)
o Random data in overwrite block uses data from nasm.exe instead of CC
CC
• Engine – main loop
o client id generate
o signal (uninstall/unload/config/notify)
o directory change notification
o wincrypt – aes/rsa support (?signing)
• Uninstall – use config settings
Tasks under development:
1) Completing parser/tasker tool for integration - XXXXX
2) Completing LP to support changes – XXXXX
3) Continuing development for command module -XXXXX
4) setup Squid/help on proxy settings – XXXXX
5) offline lin/win installers – XXXXX
6) *Persistence – run as system
7) *Test with XP
8) Loader – mask import engine.dll in axe
9) Loader – support nickname
10) Loader – support passing data pointer to loader for engine module
11) *Comm – send/receive – TestEncryption code
12) Engine – unload command module
13) Engine – calculate sleep (hibernation/bootdelay/beacon delay)
Issues:
1) entropy obfuscation – every forth byte is 0xCC, 0xC3, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x0F,
0x80, 0xCB, 0x91, 0x48, 0x49 – doesn’t exactly look like code block with C3 CC CC
CC CC CC CC CC
2) users want to allow apache to send valid pages as well – pick a sub-
directory (process or manager or something innocuous)
3) Builder – duplicate parent ids – 4 bytes (A-Z,0-9)

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