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| PoshC2 | Empire | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | |
| 1,692 | 3,907 | |
| 1.7% | 1.8% | |
| 0.0 | 9.1 | |
| 14 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| PowerShell | PowerShell | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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PoshC2
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Sketchy stuff lately?
PowerShell has never been used for nefarious purposes. ;-)
Empire
- 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.
What are some alternatives?
Empire - Empire is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent.
Covenant - Covenant is a collaborative .NET C2 framework for red teamers.
Invoke-MetasploitPayload - Powershell script to download and kick off Metasploit payloads. Relies on the exploit/multi/scripts/web_delivery metasploit module.
caldera - Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
empire - A PaaS built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)
Starkiller - Starkiller is a Frontend for PowerShell Empire.
ConPtyShell - ConPtyShell - Fully Interactive Reverse Shell for Windows
PowerShell-Botnet - A POC powershell botnet
PickleC2 - PickleC2 is a post-exploitation and lateral movements framework
nishang - Nishang - Offensive PowerShell for red team, penetration testing and offensive security.
SILENTTRINITY - An asynchronous, collaborative post-exploitation agent powered by Python and .NET's DLR