Empire contains an implementation of Mimikatz to gather credentials from memory.4
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Empire S0363
- Type
- tool
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- Created
- 11 March 2019
- Last modified
- 24 October 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]
73
TechniquesTop 1%
11
TacticsTop 2%
17
Threat groupsunranked
1
Campaignunranked
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0363
Empire can acquire network configuration information like DNS servers, public IP, and network proxies used by a host.56
Empire has the ability to automatically send collected data back to the threat actors' C2.7
Empire can utilize Invoke-DCOM to leverage remote COM execution for lateral movement.8
Empire contains modules for executing commands over SSH as well as in-memory VNC agent injection.9
Empire has the ability to obfuscate commands using Invoke-Obfuscation.10
Standing S0363
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this tool touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 825 ATT&CK software entries only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
Techniques73Top 1%
100th percentile · None of the 825 ATT&CK software entries has more Enterprise techniques — the highest in the population.
Tactics11Top 2%
98th percentile · 98% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Threat groups1761% tie · 22 values
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Campaign185% tie · 8 values
85% of the population shares a single value across only 8 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique14med29th pct
29th percentile · 71% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique5med
Detection coverage S0363
1956 distinct rules cover the 73 techniques recorded for this tool. The 2250 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 1956 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 1363 Sigma · 593 Splunk.
71 covered by at least one rule2 with no coverage1956 distinct rules in total
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