CALDERA Agent

The caldera_agent folder contains the source code of the CALDERA agent or cagent a Windows service that facilitates communication between the CALDERA server and the CALDERA Rats. The cagent program should be installed on every computer that is taking part in the adversary emulation operation. Once configured, they will connect to the CALDERA server and be added as an option to take part in an operation.

Installation Requirements

The following are required on computers that the CALDERA Agent will be installed on

• Windows 64 bit
• Visual C++ Redistributable

Pre-compiled versions of cagent are available from the Releases page. Installation steps may be found in CALDERA's documentation.

Build Requirements

Note: Pre-compiled versions of cagent are available from the Releases page.

The following are required to build the CALDERA Agent

• Windows 64 bit
• Python 3.5 (64 bit)
• python dependencies (pip install -r requirements.txt)
• setuptools (pip install --upgrade setuptools)
• PyWin32 v.220 or later.
• Windows Visual Studio 2015 (with Visual C++) OR Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools
• This version of py2exe (which is modified to work with Python 3.5)

Building an .exe

After installing all the dependencies, go to the caldera_agent directory and build with

make.bat

The compiled executable will be located at dist/cagent.exe