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 encrypted 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 Integration
- Integrated Roslyn compiler (Thanks to Covenant)
- Docker, Kali, ParrotOS, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04, and Debian 10/11 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 has server client architecture which requires running each in separate terminals. 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.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire.git
cd Empire
./setup/checkout-latest-tag.sh
sudo ./setup/install.sh# Start Server
./ps-empire server
# Help
./ps-empire server -h# Start Client
./ps-empire client
# Help
./ps-empire client -hCheck 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.
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
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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