PowerShell Empire framework
The initial Empire tool was one of the most powerful post-exploitation tools, which was based on Python 2.7, but progress has been quiet for the last 3 years. The same fork of this project was picked up with active contributions from BC-Security and has now been rewritten in Python 3 and is used by penetration testers around the globe to perform a variety of different attacks in penetration tests to demonstrate system vulnerabilities. This tool runs PowerShell agents that, by nature, are persistent. It also utilizes other important tools, such as mimikatz. In this section, we will look closer at how to use PowerShell’s Empire framework.
This tool can be installed by running sudo apt install powershell-empire in the terminal. Once the application is installed, testers should be able to see the following options:
Figure 10.33: PowerShell Empire’s main menu
Attackers need to first run the server before connecting the client...
