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Vault 7 · Central Intelligence Agency

AfterMidnight

Released by WikiLeaks on 12 May 2017 · View release at WikiLeaks »

Documents on two CIA malware frameworks for Microsoft Windows, 'AfterMidnight' and 'Assassin'. According to WikiLeaks, AfterMidnight loads and runs payloads called 'Gremlins' on a target machine, while Assassin is an automated implant that beacons to listening posts for tasking.

SeriesVault 7
Release date2017-05-12
Systems targetedWindows
Documents (per WikiLeaks)13

Documents in this release

TitleDateType
AfterMidnight v1.0 Users Guide
wikileaks.org
2014-08-18pdf
AlphaGremlin v0.1.0 Users Guide
wikileaks.org
2014-06-01pdf
AfterMidnight Diagrams
wikileaks.org
—pdf
Assassin v1.4 Users Guide
wikileaks.org
2014-06-01pdf
Assassin v1.3 Users Guide
wikileaks.org
2013-06-11pdf
Assassin v1.3 Quick Start
wikileaks.org
2013-06-01pdf
Assassin v1.3 Training
wikileaks.org
—pdf
Assassin v1.3 Quicker Start
wikileaks.org
—pdf
Assassin v1.2 Quick Start
wikileaks.org
2012-10-01pdf
Assassin v1.2 Users Guide
wikileaks.org
2012-03-01pdf
Assassin v1.2 Training
wikileaks.org
—pdf
Assassin v1.2 Quicker Start
wikileaks.org
—pdf
Assassin v1.1 Users Guide
wikileaks.org
2012-03-01pdf