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Cross-platform General Purpose
Implant Framework Written in Golang

Senior Security Associate Joe DeMesy and Security Associate Ronan Kervella are the researchers behind the creation and maintenance of Sliver. They introduced Sliver in June at SummerCon 2019.  

⚠️ Warning: Sliver is currently in beta, you've been warned :) and please consider contributing.


How Sliver Works

Sliver is designed to be an open source alternative to Cobalt Strike. Sliver supports asymmetrically encrypted C2 over DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, and Mutual TLS using per-binary X.509 certificates signed by a per-instance certificate authority and supports multiplayer mode for collaboration.

We will explore how to design stable, performant, and secure C2 channels as well as other design challenges when creating implants as they present.

Sliver is a general purpose cross-platform implant framework that supports C2 over Mutual-TLS, HTTP(S), and DNS. Implants are dynamically compiled with unique X.509 certificates signed by a per-instance certificate authority generated when you first run the binary.

The server, client, and implant all support MacOS, Windows, and Linux (and possibly every Golang compiler target but we've not tested them all).

Sliver's Features

  • Dynamic code generation
  • Compile-time obfuscation
  • Local and remote process injection
  • Anti-anti-anti-forensics
  • Secure C2 over mTLS, HTTP(S), and DNS
  • Windows process migration
  • Windows user token manipulation
  • Multiplayer-mode
  • Procedurally generated C2 over HTTP (work in progress)
  • Let's Encrypt integration
  • In-memory .NET assembly execution
  • DNS Canary Blue Team Detection

Getting Started

Download the latest release and see the Sliver wiki for a quick tutorial on basic setup and usage. To get the very latest and greatest compile from source.

Compile from Source

See the wiki.

Source Code

  • assets/ - Static assets that are embedded into the server binary, generated by go-assets.sh
  • client/ - Client code, the majority of this code is also used by the server
  • protobuf/ - - Protobuf code
  • server/ -Server-side code
  • sliver/ - Implant code, rendered by the server at runtime
  • util/ - Utility functions that may be shared by the server and client

License - GPLv3

Sliver is licensed under GPLv3, some subcomponents have separate licenses. See their respective subdirectories in this project for details.

Excerpt from GitHub:
Go to https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver for the complete tooling.
assets Re-adding the hosting DLL
client Add GPLv3
protobuf Fix execute-assembly missing DLL and refactoring
server Remove buildid from shared libs / shellcode
util Added GPLv3 license
vendor Updated vendor/
.dockerignore Fixed unit tests

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Joe demesy

About the author, Joe DeMesy

Principal

Joe DeMesy is a Principal at Bishop Fox. Joe is an expert in red teaming, secure development, proficient in several programming languages, and is a leading contributor to various open source projects. Joe is a noted expert in the field of information security, having been quoted in MarketWatch, NPR, InformationWeek, and Dark Reading. He has also presented his research at conferences such as BSidesLV, Kiwicon, BlackHat and private conferences hosted by the US Department of Defense.
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Ronan

About the author, Ronan Kervella

Senior Security Consultant

Ronan Kervella (OSCP) is a Senior Security Consultant at Bishop Fox, where he focuses on red teaming, internal penetration testing and hybrid application assessments. He is the author of multiple open source-tools and is an active contributor to the Sliver framework. He has advised Fortune 500 brands and startups in industries such as media, healthcare, and software development.

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