We need root privileges to run Empire so that it can start the listeners on system ports as well. Follow these steps to get started:
- Execute the following command to run Empire with root privilege:
sudo ./empire
The Empire framework will now load, as shown in the following screenshot:
Phase 1 – listener initiation: When using Empire, it is required to first configure a listener that will listen for incoming connections. A listener in Empire is just like a handler in Metasploit:
- To view a list of all active listeners, we will execute the following command:
listeners
The output of running the preceding command can be seen ...
