Vault7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed
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Acronyms and Terms
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Agency
- EDG = Engineering Development Group - group making tools for COG; based on the 8th and 9th floors of DD2
- AED = Applied Engineering Division - part of EDG
- MDB = Mobile Development Branch - iOS and Android team working in the cage; part of AED
iOS Team Projects and Tools and Vulnerabilities/Exploits
- Adderall = tool to pull IPSW files and kernel cache from devices
- Angerquake = Mission Control for Android
- Aquarius = contract for creating an implant
- CrunchyLimeSkies = close access tool to install (persistent or not) an executable onto a device.
- nsinstaller is the main project
- Dyonedo = generates a dylinker/executable pair to defeat code signing and launch a payload
- Earth = array.sort vulnerability in JavaScript (pre iOS9)
- used by mcp_earth and elderwaldorf projects
- ElderPiggy = privilege escalation
- Hammer = throwing framework for browser exploits
- created by MDBMobile Development Branch for throwing against OSOperating System X, Linux, and mobile devices
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existing EDGEngineering Development Branch throwing framework was Windows based and did not work well with these platforms
- Mcnugget = Mission Control for iOS
- MOP = Mach-O Parser - Python project to parse Mach-O files
- NightSkies = beacon/implant tool
- NightVision = utility to read kernel memory and get/put files as .tbz
- Quaffle = support contract for the Hammer throwing framework
- Redux = close access tool for reading/writing executing files/memory via vpnagent. Should work on iOS up to 8.1.1.
iPhone Stuff
- IPSW = iPhone/iPad Software - firmware for the devices
- MDF = Mobile Development Framework - public tool providing Python bindings
Other
- Networks
- DevLAN = classified development network used by MDBMobile Development Branch and others
- ZooLAN = old unclassified network; this is why you will occasionally see "zoo" or people with animal names
- JQJ* = tag given to names of operations
- pyzzle = Python executable zip file
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