Connection Error. Check Empire RESTful API

[cgsupport]

Sorry if this is obvious, but I'm having trouble figuring it out, and can't see anyone that has had this issue (since not having to fork your copy of Empire).

I have a fresh install of Kali (updated). Installed Empire and DeathStar (installed python3 too).

./empire --rest --debug --username empireadmin --password Password123

curl --insecure -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://localhost:1337/api/admin/login -X POST -d '{"username":"empireadmin", "password":"Password123"}'

HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 58 Server: Werkzeug/0.12.2-dev Python/2.7.13 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:03:00 GMT

{ "token": "u6gw3hgu8lrf71xs40re0sm7vhoovo3g5b4v0aps" }

The above appears to work. But when trying DeathStar (with and without python3):

./DeathStar.py --url "https://localhost:1337" -u "empireadmin" -p "Password123"

[*] Powering up the Death Star [-] Connection Error. Check Empire RESTful API

I never get any connection attempts in the empire terminal. So I'm not even sure its trying to make a connection; any idea what I'm missing?

[byt3bl33d3r]

I'll spin up a kali instance and check this out now. Hang tight

[byt3bl33d3r]

There seems to be an issue with the Python requests library on Kali not wanting to negotiate TLSv < 1.2. I submitted a PR here https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire/pull/712, should be merged soon hopefully.

Thanks

[dinvisible1]

any update on this? i think i have the same issue, by the way great work with Deathstar as well as you're other stuff im a follower of your blog!

[kofx2002]

i have the same issue [*] Powering up the Death Star [-] Connection Error. Check Empire RESTful API

[DanMcInerney]

Solution: cd Empire/ git reset --hard 2677363e508c81834b27c31ae534a5474d37eda5 pip3 install pyopenssl

[ohpe]

@DanMcInerney your solution doesn't work for me.

[nem0n]

Same problem in here too with Kali

[kofx2002]

still the same problem

[n8tr0n]

ok. I installed python 3.5.3 in a virtual environment using pipenv. Ran Deathstar in that context. The error didn't occur. listeners were being created in empire. So, I think the issue is with the python 3 version installed in Kali.

[n8tr0n]

I was able to get this working in Debian "stretch" so I compared the python 3 versions and noticed the discrepancy.

[ohpe]

That's true, there's something wrong in the python3 in Kali. However, using the virtualenv trick it fixes the problem:

cd ~/Tools/DeathStar
virtualenv -p python3 deathstar_env
source deathstar_env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

[ohpe]

@OneDollarr that's because the empire password is different from Password123. Reset the db and set that password or use -p "yourempirepwd"

[byt3bl33d3r]

Closing since this was merged.