Executors

Introduction

To be able to use the power of the OpenBAS platform on endpoints, you need at least one neutral executor that will be in charge of executing implants as detached processes. Implants will then execute payloads.

OpenBAS Agent

More informations here

Tanium Agent

The Tanium agent can be leveraged to execute implants as detached processes that will the execute payloads according to the OpenBAS architecture.

Configure the Tanium Platform

First of all, we are providing 2 Tanium packages to be imported in the Tanium platform.

Tanium package configuration

Because OpenBAS should run implants as detached processed, you must uncheck the box "Launch this package command in a process group" in the package configuration:

Once configured and imported, retrieve the package IDs from the URL ui/console/packages/XXXXX/preview.

Configure the OpenBAS platform

To use the Tanium executor, just fill the following configuration.

Parameter	Environment variable	Default value	Description
executor.tanium.enable	EXECUTOR_TANIUM_ENABLE	`false`	Enable the Tanium executor
executor.tanium.url	EXECUTOR_TANIUM_URL		Tanium URL
executor.tanium.api-key	EXECUTOR_TANIUM_API-KEY		Tanium API key
executor.tanium.computer-group-id	EXECUTOR_TANIUM_COMPUTER_GROUP_ID		Tanium Computer Group to be used in simulations
executor.tanium.windows-package-id	EXECUTOR_TANIUM_WINDOWS_PACKAGE_ID		ID of the OpenBAS Tanium Windows package
executor.tanium.unix-package-id	EXECUTOR_TANIUM_UNIX_PACKAGE_ID		ID of the OpenBAS Tanium Unix package

Tanium API Key

Please note that the Tanium API key should have the permissions to retrieve endpoint list from the Tanium GraphQL API as well as to launch packages on endpoints.

Checks

Once enabled, you should see Tanium available in your Install agents section

Also, the assets in the selected computer groups should now be available in the endpoints section in OpenBAS:

NB : An Asset can only have one Tanium agent installed thanks to an unicity with hostname and IP parameters. If you try to install again a Tanium agent on a platform, it will overwrite the actual one and you will always see one endpoint on the OpenBAS endpoint page.

Installation done

You are now ready to leverage your Tanium platform to run OpenBAS payloads!

Caldera Agent

The Caldera agent can be leveraged to execute implants as detached processes that will the execute payloads according to the OpenBAS architecture.

Caldera already installed

If you already have a working Caldera installation, just go directly to OpenBAS configuration section.

Deploy Caldera

To deploy Caldera, you can just add Caldera to the OpenBAS stack, we advise you to modify your docker-compose.yml and add a Caldera service:

services:
  caldera:
    image: openbas/caldera-server:5.0.0
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "8888:8888"
    environment:
      CALDERA_URL: http://localhost:8888
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: caldera.yml
        target: /usr/src/app/conf/local.yml

As you can see in the configuration, you will also need a configuration file caldera.yml because Caldera does not support well environment variables for configuration.

Download caldera.yml and put it alongside your docker-compose.yml file. This file must be modified prior launching, only change what is marked as Change this, listed below.

users:
  red:
    red: ChangeMe                                                                     # Change this
  blue:
    blue: ChangeMe                                                                    # Change this
api_key_red: ChangeMe                                                                 # Change this
api_key_blue: ChangeMe                                                                # Change this
api_key: ChangeMe                                                                     # Change this
crypt_salt: ChangeMe                                                                  # Change this
encryption_key: ChangeMe                                                              # Change this
app.contact.http: http://caldera.myopenbas.myorganization.com:8888                    # Change this
app.contact.tunnel.ssh.user_password: ChangeMe                                        # Change this

Just update your stack and check Caldera is running:

docker compose up -d

OpenBAS configuration

Then, just change the OpenBAS configuration as follow:

Parameter	Environment variable	Default value	Description
executor.caldera.enable	EXECUTOR_CALDERA_ENABLE	`false`	Enable the Caldera executor
executor.caldera.url	EXECUTOR_CALDERA_URL		Caldera URL
executor.caldera.public-url	EXECUTOR_CALDERA_PUBLIC-URL		Caldera URL accessible from endpoints (ex: http://caldera.myopenbas.myorganization.com:8888)
executor.caldera.api-key	EXECUTOR_CALDERA_API-KEY		Caldera API key

Agents

Deploy agents

Once enabled, you should see Caldera available in your Install agents section:

OpenBAS has built-in instruction if you want command line examples to deploy the agent on one endpoint.

Caldera AV detection

By default, the Caldera agent "Sandcat" is detected and blocked by antivirus. Here, we are using Caldera as a neutral executor that will execute implants that will execute payloads, so you need to add the proper AV exclusions as instructed in the OpenBAS screen.

Checks

All assets with a proper Caldera agent installed using the OpenBAS provided command line (then persistent) should now be available in the OpenBAS endpoints list.

NB : An Asset can only have one Caldera agent installed thanks to an unicity with hostname and IP parameters. If you try to install again a Caldera agent on a platform, it will overwrite the actual one and you will always see one endpoint on the OpenBAS endpoint page.