Situational Awareness - Empire Module


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Module Overview

Name: Situational Awareness
Module: python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness
Source code [1]: empire/server/modules/python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness.yaml
Source code [2]: empire/server/modules/python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness.py
MITRE ATT&CK: T1082
Language: Python
Needs admin: No
OPSEC safe: Yes
Background: No

The situational_awareness module will enumerate the basic items needed for OP.

This module runs in a foreground and is OPSEC unsafe as it writes on the disk and therefore could be detected by AV/EDR running on the target system.

Note that the situational_awareness module does not need administrative privileges to work properly which means that a normal user can run this module.

Required Module Options

This is a list of options that are required by the situational_awareness module:

Agent
Agent to run from.

Debug
Enable a find keyword to search for within the iMessage Database.
Default value: False.

HistoryCount
The number of messages to enumerate from most recent.
Default value: 10.

Situational_awareness Example Usage

Here's an example of how to use the situational_awareness module in the Empire client console:

[+] New agent Y4LHEV83 checked in
[*] Sending agent (stage 2) to Y4LHEV83 at 192.168.204.135
(empire usestager/osx/ducky) > usemodule python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness

 Author       Alex Rymdeko-Harvey                                         
              @Killswitch-GUI                                             
 Background   False                                                       
 Description  This module will enumerate the basic items needed for OP.   
 Language     python                                                      
 Name         python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness 
 NeedsAdmin   False                                                       
 OpsecSafe    True                                                        
 Techniques   http://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1082                    


,Record Optionsw-------,----------,-------------------------------------,
| Name         | Value | Required | Description                         |
|--------------|-------|----------|-------------------------------------|
| Agent        |       | True     | Agent to run from.                  |
|--------------|-------|----------|-------------------------------------|
| Debug        | False | True     | Enable a find keyword to search for |
|              |       |          | within the iMessage Database.       |
|--------------|-------|----------|-------------------------------------|
| HistoryCount | 10    | True     | The number of messages to enumerate |
|              |       |          | from most recent.                   |
'--------------'-------'----------'-------------------------------------'

(Empire: usemodule/python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness) > set Agent Y4LHEV83
[*] Set Agent to Y4LHEV83
(Empire: usemodule/python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness) > set Debug False
[*] Set Debug to False
(Empire: usemodule/python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness) > set HistoryCount 10
[*] Set HistoryCount to 10
(Empire: usemodule/python/situational_awareness/host/osx/situational_awareness) > execute
[*] Tasked Y4LHEV83 to run Task 1
...

Now wait for the results to come.

Authors

References

See Also

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Version

This page has been created based on Empire version 4.1.3 (BC Security Fork).
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