# USB Campaigns

## USB Campaigns Guide

In this article, we guide you on how to create and analyse a **USB Campaign.** These campaigns are necessary for showing us how employees react when finding an **unknown** USB drive.

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**1.** To create a **new** USB Campaign, select the **New Campaign** button.

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**2.** Enter the details required and click **CREATE CAMPAIGN** to create that campaign:

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**3.** Let’s do an example:

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**4.** On the confirmation that pops up, click **OK.**

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You should get the following output:

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**5.** Click on **Go Back** to return to the default page of the **USB Campaign.**

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**6.** To **delete** the campaign, just click on the **trash can** button:

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**7.** You should receive a message, essentially asking you to confirm your action. Click **Delete Campaign** or **Cancel** accordingly.

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**8.** If you have selected **Delete Campaign,** you will then be prompted with a confirmation. Click **OK** to resume.

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**9.** The following documents are **downloadable** and contain various **payloads** responsible for providing us the intended information upon the success of the campaign:

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**10. Click** on any of them to download. In this case, we downloaded all 4 types of files:

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**11.** Let’s take for example the **Word** file. **Right-click** on the file and select **Properties:**

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**12.** On the properties, tick the **Unblock** box.

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**13.** Click **OK** to apply the changes.

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**14. Repeat** this exact procedure for the rest of the files (**Excel, PDF, PowerPoint**).

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**15.** Go ahead and store either of these **4 files** in a **USB** so they are ready for distribution.

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**16.** Now, it is finally time to **start** the campaign. To do that, click on the **Start Campaign** button.

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**17.** On the prompt that pops up, select **Start Campaign** or **Cancel** accordingly.

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**18.** Click **OK** to finalise.

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**19.** You can view **more than 10 entries** in a single page by clicking on the **drop-down list:**

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**20.** To **pause** the campaign, click on the **Pause Campaign** button.

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**21.** Select **Pause Campaign** to confirm your actions or **Cancel** to step back.

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**22.** Click **OK** to continue.

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**23.** When returned to the campaign window, **resume** the campaign by clicking on the indicated option of the following screenshot:

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**24.** Click on **Resume Campaign** to confirm or **Cancel** to negate the process.

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**25.** Select **OK** in order to proceed.

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**26.** Beginning with the **Word** file, let’s examine what should a user do in order to enable these payloads and what would the result be.

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**27.** For the action to be received, the **target user** should **open** the file and  select **Enable Content.**

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**28.** The target user will now be prompted with this **ok.** message on their browser:

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**29.** In case of the **Excel** file, the user should go ahead and **open** the file. When it opens up, they must select **Yes** on the following prompt:

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**30.** Following up with clicking on the **Enable** **Content** button:

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**31.** They will be prompted with this **ok.** message on their browser:

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**32.** Alternatively, if they open the **PowerPoint** file, they must choose the **Enable content for this session** option and click **OK.**

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**33.** They will be prompted with the following **Thank you** message on the **PowerPoint** file as well as the usual **ok.** message on the browser:

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**34.** Finally, if they open the **PDF** file, they should press **OK** to allow the permissions:

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**35.** Once again, they will be prompted with the **ok.** message on the browser:

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**36. Assuming** that the user **opened** up and **interacted** with any of the files, we should expect a similar output to the following:

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All the information is provided accordingly, but for security purposes, they are hidden in these images.

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**37.** From the **Search recipient** button, we can denote a user that was identified as **prone** to the phishing attempt. In this way, she/he will be marked for future reporting and moderation under their respective organisation:

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**38.** For demonstration purposes, we will mark **4 recipients** from our list. You can click on **Save** or **Cancel** accordingly.

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**39.** We chose to save the changes:

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**40.** After the reception of results, you can click on the **Complete Campaign** button to **terminate** the procedure.

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**41.** On the pop-up, select **Complete Campaign** or **Cancel** accordingly.

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**42.** Click **OK** to conclude:

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**43.** As we can see from the details, the campaign has been **completed** as expected!

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**44.** As always, you may delete the campaign if you wish. Just click on the **Delete Campaign** button.

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**45.** Select **Delete Campaign** to finalise your action or **Cancel** to abort.

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**46.** Click **OK** to resume.

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**47.** Since we’ve completed the campaign, it is no longer active but rather **archived.**

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**48.** Click on **Archived Campaigns** to view the campaign.

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**49.** We can see that it exists as an archived campaign with a **Completed** status.

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**50.** To **view** the results of any campaign (either active or archived), select the button shown in the following screenshot:

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**51.** To **delete** any campaign (**either active or archived**), click on the **trash can** button.

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**52.** On the confirmation prompt that pops up, select **Delete** to confirm or **Cancel** to retreat.

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**53.** Click **OK** to continue.

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