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.
- Server/Client Architecture for Multiplayer Support
- Supports GUI & CLI Clients
- Fully encrpyted communications
- HTTP/S, Malleable HTTP, OneDrive, Dropbox, and PHP 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 Integation
- Integrated Roslyn compiler (Thanks to Covenant)
- Docker, Kali, Ubuntu, and Debian Install Support
- PowerShell
- Python 3
- C#
- IronPython 3
- Assembly Execution
- BOF Execution
- Mimikatz
- Seatbelt
- Rubeus
- SharpSploit
- Certify
- ProcessInjection
- And Many More
Please see our Releases or Changelog page for detailed release notes.
Empire 4 introduces a new server and client architecture which requires running each in separate terminals. Check out the Installation Page for install instructions.
# Start Server
./ps-empire server
# Help
./ps-empire server -h
# Start Client
./ps-empire client
# Help
./ps-empire client -h
Check out the Empire Docs for more instructions on installing and using with Empire. For a complete list of the 4.0 changes, see the changelog.
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Starkiller is a 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.
See Contributing
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