Vault 7: Projects

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

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1. (U) Scope
(C) This document establishes the User Manual for ExpressLane v3.1.1, IMIS
Requirement #2009-1655.
1.1 (U) System Overview and Description
(S) OTS/I2C has an established effort to provide liaison services with a system that
collects biometric information. ExpressLane v3.1.1, and supporting tools, was developed
to support OTS/I2C in their efforts to verify that this data is also being shared with the
Agency. ExpressLane v3.1.1 provides an ability to disable the biometric software if
liaison doesn’t provide the Agency with continued access.
1.2 (U) Assumptions and Constraints
(S) The target machine must include a USB port for the thumb drive.
2. (U) Applicable Documents
(C) The following documents, of the exact issue shown, form a part of this document to
the extent specified herein. In the event of a conflict between the documents referenced
herein and the contents of this document, the contents of this document will be
considered binding. The following documents may be found at [specify location]:
[Official Document Title, Revision/Version, Document Number, Date of Issue]
3. (U) System Description
3.1 (U) System Concepts and Capabilities
(S) ExpressLane 3.1.1 may be installed in one of two ways:
1) At Headquarters before delivery of the biometric system to a Liaison Service
2) As part of an upgrade to the biometric system
(S) If the biometric system has already been given to Liaison, ExpressLane 3.1.1 will be
installed as part of an upgrade to the biometric system by the OTS officers who maintain
it. This new version of ExpressLane contains an Upgrade Installation screen with a
progress bar that appears to be upgrading the biometric software for a period of time.
This installation program, however, is not upgrading any of the biometric software. OTS
requested this capability as part of their cover for action. The installation time for the
upgrade can be pre-determined by an OTS officer before running the program in front of
the liaison service. While the upgrade screen is running, ExpressLane kicks off a
collection to a watermarked thumb drive. If the OTS officers have files for the biometric
software that need to be updated, ExpressLane 3.1.1 will copy those files to specific
locations as well.
(S) ExpressLane 3.1.1 will overtly appear to be just another part of this system. It is
called: MOBSLangSvc.exe and is stored in \Windows\System32. It will covertly collect
the data files of interest from the liaison system and store them compressed and encrypted
in the covert partition on a specially watermarked thumb drive when it is inserted into the
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