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Empire

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Empire

Empire is a post-exploitation and adversary emulation framework that is used to aid Red Teams and Penetration Testers. The Empire server is written in Python 3 and is modular to allow operator flexibility. Empire comes built-in with a client that can be used remotely to access the server. There is also a GUI available for remotely accessing the Empire server, Starkiller.

Features

  • Server/Client Architecture for Multiplayer Support
  • Fully encrypted communications
  • HTTP/S, Malleable HTTP, Foreign, Hop, SMB, and Port Forward Pivot Listeners
  • Massive library (400+) of supported tools in PowerShell, C#, & Python
  • Donut Integration for shellcode generation
  • Modular plugin interface for custom server features
  • Flexible module interface for adding new tools
  • Integrated obfuscation using ConfuserEx 2 & Invoke-Obfuscation
  • In-memory .NET assembly execution
  • Customizable Bypasses
  • JA3/S and JARM Evasion
  • MITRE ATT&CK Integration
  • Integrated Roslyn compiler (Thanks to Covenant)
  • Docker, Kali, ParrotOS, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, and Debian 12/13 Install Support

Agents

  • PowerShell
  • Python 3
  • C#
  • IronPython 3
  • Go

Modules

  • Assembly Execution
  • BOF Execution
  • Mimikatz
  • Seatbelt
  • Rubeus
  • SharpSploit
  • Certify
  • ProcessInjection
  • And Many More

Sponsors

Release Notes

Please see our Releases or Changelog page for detailed release notes.

Quickstart

root@kitploit:~
git clone https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire.git

Check out the Installation Page for install instructions.

Note: The main branch is a reflection of the latest changes and may not always be stable. After cloning the repo, you can checkout the latest stable release by running the setup/checkout-latest-tag.sh script.

root@kitploit:~
git clone https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire.git
cd Empire
./setup/checkout-latest-tag.sh
./ps-empire install -y

If you are using the sponsors version of Empire, it will pull the sponsors version of Starkiller. Because these are private repositories, you need to have ssh credentials configured for GitHub. Instructions can be found here.

Server

root@kitploit:~
# Start Server
./ps-empire server

# Help
./ps-empire server -h

Check out the Empire Docs for more instructions on installing and using with Empire. For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.

Starkiller

Starkiller is a web application GUI for PowerShell Empire that interfaces remotely with Empire via its API. Starkiller can be ran as a replacement for the Empire client or in a mixed environment with Starkiller and Empire clients. As of 5.0, Starkiller is packaged with Empire and doesn't require any additional setup.

Contribution Rules

See Contributing

Contributors

A special thanks to the following contributors for their help with Empire:

@harmj0y @sixdub @enigma0x3 @rvrsh3ll @killswitch_gui @xorrior @Cx01N @Hubbl3 @Vinnybod

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