Empire
Empire is a post-exploitation and adversary emulation framework that is used to aid Red Teams and Penetration Testers. (by BC-SECURITY)
Empire
Empire is a PowerShell and Python 3.x post-exploitation framework. (by terceranexus6)
| Empire | Empire | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | |
| 3,911 | 0 | |
| 1.2% | - | |
| 9.1 | 1.8 | |
| 2 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
| PowerShell | PowerShell | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Empire
Posts with mentions or reviews of Empire.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-03.
- Opinion on best c2 to learn for resume (open sourced)
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Why doesn't Empire start??
Is the new version. The original Empire one was discontinued Old: https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire New: https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire
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C/C++/C# for Red team
C# for Windows, EDR bypassing. Windows API and native API calls, undocumented API calls and similar. Look at things like this blog here https://www.inversecos.com/2022/03/windows-event-log-evasion-via-native.html and other resources such as the Windows Internals. Sektor7 would be good with their AV bypass courses, but I have only heard of reviews being good, but not done the courses so DYOR. Try the PentesterAcademy courses on Windows. PowerShell pentesting. Frameworks like Empire in Kali, https://www.kali.org/tools/powershell-empire/ && https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire
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Using Empire4 without Kali
First of all, Empire4 is a post-exploitation framework, such as Cobalt Strike, Covenant or Meterpreter. It actually rely a lot on Meterpreter, as I will explain later. This means it allows you to deploy listeners in your server and configure attacks connected to them. Empire itself was active for so many years and became deprecated, then Empire4 came up using updated resources. It's open source and it's used for both threat actors (cybercriminals) and offensive security auditors, as well as students of course.
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Guidance on certs in Cybersecurity Field
Empire: https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire/
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If Empire made a comeback....
Unless I am mistaken it is being maintained here by another team. They are also working on a frontend for it called Starkiller. https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire
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"Modern" Pentest Frameworks
Metasploit and Merlin are the larger post-exploitation frameworks that come to mind. As an FYI there's a forked version of Empire now actively in development too - https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire.
- BC-SECURITY/Empire - Empire is a PowerShell and Python 3.x post-exploitation framework.
Empire
Posts with mentions or reviews of Empire.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-22.
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Using Empire4 without Kali
Now, I realized that some modules take advantage of msfvenom to work. The msfvenom tool is the Meterpreter payload generator. This is the case of the reverse shell generator. The default configuration of the module distinguish among architechtures but doesn't obfuscate the output in any case. I decided to make some changes in my own fork in order to use SGN encoder with x86 architecture, as you can se bellow in empire/server/stagers/windows/reverseshell.py:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Empire and Empire you can also consider the following projects:
Covenant - Covenant is a collaborative .NET C2 framework for red teamers.
Poetry - Python packaging and dependency management made easy
PoshC2 - A proxy aware C2 framework used to aid red teamers with post-exploitation and lateral movement.
caldera - Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Starkiller - Starkiller is a Frontend for PowerShell Empire.
Empire - Empire is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent.
PickleC2 - PickleC2 is a post-exploitation and lateral movements framework
SILENTTRINITY - An asynchronous, collaborative post-exploitation agent powered by Python and .NET's DLR
empire-db - Mirror of Apache Empire-db
PSRansom - PowerShell Ransomware Simulator with C2 Server
chocolatey-ansible - The Chocolatey module collection for Ansible
bzar - A set of Zeek scripts to detect ATT&CK techniques.