Covenant vs Starkiller

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Covenant		Starkiller
	Project
10	Mentions	2
3,950	Stars	1,262
-	Growth	2.4%
0.0	Activity	8.1
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
C#	Language	Vue
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Covenant

Posts with mentions or reviews of Covenant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.

Effective Adversary Emulation
3 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2023

Covenant C2: https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant
Secure authentication over unencrypted connection
1 project | /r/cybersecurity | 4 Jun 2023

E.g., https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant/blob/master/Covenant/Data/Grunt/GruntHTTP/GruntHTTP.cs
Next stage of training
1 project | /r/redteamsec | 29 Apr 2023
Covenant Framework and .NET framework issues
1 project | /r/ethicalhacking | 5 Aug 2022

And I have then installed Covenant as per the instructions here: https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant/wiki/Installation-And-Startup
A question about internal(network?) pentesting.
1 project | /r/redteamsec | 6 Nov 2021

https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant https://bloodhoundgang.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant/wiki
Ask HN: Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2021

1. Learn to build things
2. Learn to hack them
3. Build tools to hack things (or learn existing ones, e.g. https://github.com/GhostPack and https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant for you .NET folks)
Going from business apps to tools offers a nice change of pace.
Guidance on certs in Cybersecurity Field
8 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 11 Oct 2021

Covenant: https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant
"Modern" Pentest Frameworks
2 projects | /r/oscp | 5 Aug 2021

Thanks I will give the README a read https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant
Microsoft / Github should stop treating open-source software as malware and forcing developers to pay for certificates, if they actually care about open-source developers
5 projects | /r/programming | 24 Jun 2021
DomainBorrowing: Not be confused with DomainFronting - This talk presents a new method to hide C2 traffic via a CDN to circumvent censorship. It details some tricks discovered in some CDN implementations, and how to chain them together to “borrow” a domain and its valid HTTPS certificate
2 projects | /r/blueteamsec | 9 May 2021

an implementation is here - Covenant Implant Template, which uses Domain Borrowing for C2 communication. https://github.com/Dliv3/DomainBorrowing

Starkiller

Posts with mentions or reviews of Starkiller. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-11.

Guidance on certs in Cybersecurity Field
8 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 11 Oct 2021

StarKiller: https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Starkiller
Releases · BC-SECURITY/Starkiller
1 project | /r/RedSec | 31 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Covenant and Starkiller you can also consider the following projects:

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework

Empire - Empire is a post-exploitation and adversary emulation framework that is used to aid Red Teams and Penetration Testers.

Empire - Empire is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent.

Awesome-Red-Teaming - List of Awesome Red Teaming Resources

caldera - Automated Adversary Emulation Platform

empire - A PaaS built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)

SILENTTRINITY - An asynchronous, collaborative post-exploitation agent powered by Python and .NET's DLR

merlin - Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command & Control server and agent written in golang.

caldera_pathfinder - Pathfinder is a plugin for mapping network vulnerabilities, scanned by CALDERA or imported by a supported network scanner, and translating those scans into adversaries for network traversal.