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In this Lecture, I'm gonna talk about a tool called Empire.

Empire allow us to generate backdoors that are not detectable by antivirus programs.

Again, very similar to Veil-Evasion and TheFatRat.

The reason why I'm showing you so many tools to do the same thing

is all of these tools achieved the same goal.

Yes, they all create undetectable backdoors but they achieve this goal in different ways.

So the backdoors generated by them, use different techniques to bypass antivirus programs.

Therefore, if for some reason, Vile-Evasion or TheFatRat or Empire became less effective,

then you know two other tools on how to generate undetectable backdoors.

Anti-virus programs will always try to stay up to date

and the three of these tools will also, always try to stay up to date

but sometimes, at certain times, some of these tools will be less effective than others

that's why it's better to know all of these tools

and have the option to pick which one, that works better in your case.

So before we start talking about how to use this tool and how this tool works,

let's first download and install it.

I'm going to go to my browser and I'm gonna search for Empire project, Git,

to get their Git repository page

and again, they're using Git version control, just like TheFatRat

so we can download it using the same command as TheFatRat.

So this is their page and we're gonna go on the clone, like we did before

and we're gonna copy their URL and then I'm gonna go to my command prompt,

I'm gonna navigate to OPT, the same directory that I installed my FatRat in.

So if I do 'Ls', you'll see that we have TheFatRat directory

and now, to download and install this, all we have to do is just to 'git clone'

and put the URL that we just copied.

So it's exactly the same command that we did before.

And as I said, this is the command that you'd always use when you want to clone stuff from GitHub.

So 'git clone', the URL of the project.

Now, I'm gonna hit Enter and that's going to download Empire.

Okay, now, it's all installed.

So what I want to do is, I'm gonna do 'list' to list and see if it's actually, downloaded

and we can see that we have a new directory called Empire.

Now, I can navigate into that directory by doing 'cd Empire'

and then, if I do 'Ls' to list the files, you will see that we have a directory called 'setup',

so I'm gonna navigate into that again using 'cd'

and then if I do 'Ls', we'll see that we have an executable that is called 'install.sh'.

Now remember, when we were installing TheFatRat,

we actually had to change the permissions of the Installer and we had to change it to an executable

but right now, you can see that install is already green,

so that means it's already an executable and I can run it by doing './' and put the filename.

I'm gonna hit Enter...

and just like TheFatRat, this is gonna check if there is any packages that need to be downloaded

and if there is, then it's going to download and install them for me.

And right now, it's asking me for a password for the server

and I'm just gonna hit Enter to generate a random one

and you won't really need to enter this manually in the future.

It's just for the communication of the server that Empire uses.

So now, Empire is done and it's installed and we can run it from the directory

that we installed it in from 'opt/Empire'.

So if I do 'cd..' to go back and do 'Ls',

you can see that we have Empire right here and we can run it by doing again './Empire'.

So that's it, the tool is installed and it's ready to be used

and we're gonna see how we can use it in the next lectures.