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merlin-agent

This package contains the Agent code for Merlin post-exploitation command and control framework.

Installed size: 11.55 MB
How to install: sudo apt install merlin-agent

Dependencies:
  • libc6
merlin-agent
root@kali:~# merlin-agent -h
  -addr string
    	The address in interface:port format the agent will use for communications (default "127.0.0.1:7777")
  -auth string
    	The Agent's authentication method (e.g, OPAQUE (default "opaque")
  -debug
    	Enable debug output
  -headers string
    	A new line separated (e.g., \n) list of additional HTTP headers to use
  -host string
    	HTTP Host header
  -http-client string
    	The HTTP client to use for communication [go, winhttp] (default "go")
  -ja3 string
    	JA3 signature string (not the MD5 hash). Overrides -proto & -parrot flags
  -killdate string
    	The date, as a Unix EPOCH timestamp, that the agent will quit running (default "0")
  -listener string
    	The uuid of the peer-to-peer listener this agent should connect to
  -maxretry string
    	The maximum amount of failed checkins before the agent will quit running (default "7")
  -padding string
    	The maximum amount of data that will be randomly selected and appended to every message (default "4096")
  -parrot string
    	parrot or mimic a specific browser from github.com/refraction-networking/utls (e.g., HelloChrome_Auto)
  -proto string
    	Protocol for the agent to connect with [https (HTTP/1.1), http (HTTP/1.1 Clear-Text), h2 (HTTP/2), h2c (HTTP/2 Clear-Text), http3 (QUIC or HTTP/3.0), tcp-bind, tcp-reverse, udp-bind, udp-reverse, smb-bind, smb-reverse] (default "h2")
  -proxy string
    	Hardcoded proxy to use for http/1.1 traffic only that will override host configuration
  -proxy-pass string
    	Password for proxy authentication
  -proxy-user string
    	Username for proxy authentication
  -psk string
    	Pre-Shared Key used to encrypt initial communications (default "merlin")
  -secure string
    	Require TLS certificate validation for HTTP communications (default "false")
  -skew string
    	Amount of skew, or variance, between agent checkins (default "3000")
  -sleep string
    	Time for agent to sleep (default "30s")
  -transforms string
    	Ordered CSV of transforms to construct a message (default "jwe,gob-base")
  -url string
    	A comma separated list of the full URLs for the agent to connect to (default "https://127.0.0.1:443")
  -useragent string
    	The HTTP User-Agent header string that the Agent will use while sending traffic (default "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.85 Safari/537.36")
  -v	Enable verbose output
  -version
    	Print the agent version and exit

Updated on: 2025-May-20