Empire
- ID
- S0363
- Type
- Tool
- Associated names
- EmPyre, PowerShell Empire
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- Source
- attack.mitre.org
- MITRE last modified
- 24 Oct 2025
Empire is an open-source, cross-platform remote administration and post-exploitation framework that is publicly available on GitHub. While the tool itself is primarily written in Python, the post-exploitation agents are written in pure PowerShell for Windows and Python for Linux/macOS. Empire was one of five tools singled out by a joint report on public hacking tools being widely used by adversaries.[1][2][3]
Techniques used (73)
- T1003.001 LSASS Memory
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1020 Automated Exfiltration
- T1021.003 Distributed Component Object Model
- T1021.004 SSH
- T1027.010 Command Obfuscation
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1040 Network Sniffing
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1046 Network Service Discovery
- T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation
- T1049 System Network Connections Discovery
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1055 Process Injection
- T1056.001 Keylogging
- T1056.004 Credential API Hooking
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
- T1059.001 PowerShell
- T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
- T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
- T1070.006 Timestomp
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1087.001 Local Account
- T1087.002 Domain Account
- T1102.002 Bidirectional Communication
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1106 Native API
- T1113 Screen Capture
- T1114.001 Local Email Collection
- T1115 Clipboard Data
- T1119 Automated Collection
- T1125 Video Capture
- T1127.001 MSBuild
- T1134 Access Token Manipulation
- T1134.002 Create Process with Token
- T1134.005 SID-History Injection
- T1135 Network Share Discovery
- T1136.001 Local Account
- T1136.002 Domain Account
- T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
- T1217 Browser Information Discovery
- T1482 Domain Trust Discovery
- T1484.001 Group Policy Modification
- T1518.001 Security Software Discovery
- T1543.003 Windows Service
- T1546.008 Accessibility Features
- T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
- T1547.005 Security Support Provider
- T1547.009 Shortcut Modification
- T1548.002 Bypass User Account Control
- T1550.002 Pass the Hash
- T1552.001 Credentials In Files
- T1552.004 Private Keys
- T1555.001 Keychain
- T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers
- T1557.001 Name Resolution Poisoning and SMB Relay
- T1558.001 Golden Ticket
- T1558.002 Silver Ticket
- T1558.003 Kerberoasting
- T1560 Archive Collected Data
- T1567.001 Exfiltration to Code Repository
- T1567.002 Exfiltration to Cloud Storage
- T1569.002 Service Execution
- T1573.002 Asymmetric Cryptography
- T1574.001 DLL
- T1574.004 Dylib Hijacking
- T1574.007 Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable
- T1574.008 Path Interception by Search Order Hijacking
- T1574.009 Path Interception by Unquoted Path
- T1615 Group Policy Discovery
Groups using it (17)
- G0010 Turla
- G0034 Sandworm Team
- G0051 FIN10
- G0052 CopyKittens
- G0064 APT33
- G0065 Leviathan
- G0069 MuddyWater
- G0073 APT19
- G0090 WIRTE
- G0091 Silence
- G0096 APT41
- G0102 Wizard Spider
- G0119 Indrik Spider
- G0140 LazyScripter
- G1001 HEXANE
- G1016 FIN13
- G1040 Play