Offensive Tools

Sliver: Cross-platform General Purpose Implant Framework Written in Golang

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.

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About Sliver

Features Overview

  • 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
  • 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

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


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Lead Researchers

Joe DeMesy & Ronan Kervella

Joe DeMesy

is a Principal at Bishop Fox. Joe is an expert in 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 Market Watch, 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. GitHub: moloch--

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. GitHub: rkervella

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Aug 05, 2019

A How-To Guide for Using Sliver

By Joe DeMesy, Ronan Kervella

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