/ Detecting and decrypting Sliver C2 – a threat hunter’s guide Sliver is an open-source, cross-platform, and extensible C2 framework. It’s written primarily in Go, making it fast, portable, and easy to customize. This versatility makes it a popular choice among red teams for adversary emulation and as a learning tool for security enthusiasts. The Sliver C2 framework has features catering to both beginner and advanced users. One of its main attractions is the ability to generate dynamic payloads for multiple platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and macOS. These payloads, or “slivers,” provide capabilities like establishing persistence, spawning a shell, and exfiltrating data. When it comes to communication, Sliver supports a wide range of communication protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, and WireGuard. This ensures that C2 traffic is flexible, stealthy, and can blend in with normal network traffic — Full article…