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Empire — Attack Tool

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.

Tool identity and evidence

Included because the active pinned ATT&CK object has type tool. This is an upstream classification, not an assurance of benignness or a recommendation to run it.

Aliases: Empire, EmPyre, PowerShell Empire

Primary tool reference

Existing author guides

No reviewed association in this snapshot.

Primary documentation

No reviewed association in this snapshot.

Connected ecosystem references

Linked tags

cloudcloud-hosted-endpointcontainersidentitynetwork-infrastructureonpremsaasvirtualizationLinuxmacOSWindows
attack_toolattack_uses

Documented actor use

Explicit actor-to-software uses relationships in the pinned ATT&CK source. These links are historical behavior context, not attribution of current events.

Technique-specific simulations and detections

Detection links describe the associated behavior, not independently verified tool-specific signatures.

Telemetry context

Derived from the explicitly linked TTPs; not proof of sensor coverage for this tool.

Pinned research references. No browser attack runner, live simulation result or validated detector is asserted. Source mappings and validation limits are preserved. ATT&CK / Atomic provenance · Detection provenance.