Powershell Empire

Powershell Empire Dictionnary

Listener: Waiting for a connection back from an agent.

Stager: The payload we sent on the target machine in order to get an agent back.

Agent: Combination of a Listener + Stager.

Installation

sudo apt install powershell-empire starkiller #starkiller is the GUI for PE.

We can also install Powershell Empire and starkiller from the official GitHub Repo.

For starkiller:

cd /opt
Download the latest release on the official github repo
chmod +x starkiller-1.3.2.AppImage                       #make it executable
sudo ./starkiller-1.3.2.AppImage --no-sandbox            #starting starkiller

Releases · BC-SECURITY/StarkillerGitHub

For Powershell Empire

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire.git
cd Empire    
sudo ./setup/install.sh

Setting up starkiller

cd /opt
cd Empire
sudo ./empire --rest
cd ..
sudo ./starkiller-1.3.2.AppImage --no-sandbox

Default credentials for starkiller

empireadmin:password123

Starting a server and a client

Step 1: Starting the server

sudo powershell-empire server

Step 2: Starting the client

powershell-empire client

Optional

Starting starkiller (GUI)

sudo starkiller

Listener

Commands	Description
uselistener LISTENER	To select a listener
options	options
set OPTION VALUE	to set options to the listener
set Name NAME	to set a name to a listeners (case sensitive)
set Host	to set our IP address
usemodule NAME_OF_MODULE	to use a module
execute	to start the listener
kill LISTENER_NAME	to kill a listener
back	to exit of the menu