Empire is a post-exploitation framework that includes a pure-PowerShell2.0 Windows agent, and a pure Python 2.6/2.7 Linux/OS X agent. It is the merge of the previous PowerShell Empire and Python EmPyre projects.
Installation
on kali and parrot:
apt install powershell-empire
other distro:
git clone https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire.git
sudo ./setup/install.sh
# or use docker image:
docker pull empireproject/empire
Basic Usage
agents - Will allow you to jump to agents menu.
back & main – Will take you back to the main menu.
exit – Will exit from Empire.
help – Will display help menu as shown in the above image.
info – Will display information about the active listener.
kill – Will kill a particular listener.
launcher – Used to generate an initial launcher for a listener.
list – Will list all the active listeners.
usestager – Used to use a stager (we will see below what exactly is a stager).