The first phase of Empire post exploitation is Listener Initiation. When using Empire, it is required to first configure a listener which would listen for incoming connections. A listener in Empire is just like a handler in Metasploit. To view a list of all active listeners, execute the following command:
listeners
The output of running the preceding command is as follows:
If there's no listener running in Empire, you'll get a No listeners currently active message. We can execute the help command or the ? for options allowed in the listeners module:
We don't have an active listener for now, but we can create ...
