CALDERA is an automated adversary emulation system, built on the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework.
CALDERA works by attaching abilities to an adversary and running the adversary in an operation. Full documentation for this system can be found in the wiki.
Python 3.5.3+ is required to run this system.
Start by cloning this repository recursively. This will pull all available plugins.
git clone https://github.com/mitre/caldera.git --recursive
From the root of this project, install the PIP requirements.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Then start the server.
python server.py
To understand CALDERA, it helps to run an operation. Below is a pre-built mission you can execute to understand the system. This mission assumes CALDERA is running locally.
Perform reconnaissance on a compromised laptop. Your employer needs a list of the laptop user’s preferred WIFI networks. Grab this list, collecting anything else along the way, then get out. Quickly. Leave no trace. There is one caveat: the laptop’s AV scans the machine in full every minute. You must complete this mission in less than 60 seconds.
Start a 54ndc47 agent on the same computer as CALDERA. Do this by opening a terminal and pasting in the correct delivery command for your operating system. You should be welcomed by a log message indicating the agent has sent a "beacon" to CALDERA.
Move to a browser, at 127.0.0.1:8888, logging in with the credentials admin:admin. Click into the Chain plugin and use the "Operations" section to fire off an operation using the "nosy neighbor" adversary and the my_group group. Fill in an operation name but leave all other fields at their defaults.
Once the operation is complete, compare the execution time of the first and last commands. Was the mission a success? Did the adversary run without a trace? Can you figure out why the abilities are being run in the order they are?
Bleeding-edge code can be run by using the latest master branch source code. Stable versions are tagged by major.minor.bugfix numbers and can be used by cloning the appropriate tagged version:
git clone --branch 2.2.0 https://github.com/mitre/caldera.git --recursive
Check the GitHub releases for the most stable release versions.
IMPORTANT: The core system relies on plugins (git submodules). If you are unfamiliar with this concept and want to run the bleeding-edge code, a "git pull" on this code will likely not be sufficient. The easiest way to run bleeding-edge code is to recursively re-clone all of CALDERA when you want to update it.
We use the basic feature branch GIT flow. Create a feature branch off of master and when ready, submit a merge request. Make branch names and commits descriptive. A merge request should solve one problem, not many.
In addition to CALDERA's open source capabilities, MITRE maintains several in-house CALDERA plugins that offer more advanced functionality. For more information, or to discuss licensing opportunities, please reach out to caldera@mitre.org or directly to MITRE's Technology Transfer Office.
BRAWL Game - Data set created by the BRAWL project representing one CALDERA operation with data collected by Microsoft Sysmon and other sensors.
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