Concepts and Terminology

Payload: A file or command that is run on a target machine to establish an agent

Agent: An instance of an Agent Type that is registered and communicating with Faction.

Agent Type: A kind of agent, for example Marauder​

Modules: Libraries that provide a Faction Agent with additional functionality in the form of commands or transport options.

Transport: The combination of a Transport Server and Transport Module

Transport Server: A server that sits between a payload/agent and the Faction API. It manipulates API messages so that they can be routed over different transmission methods or obfuscated (or both)

Transport Module: A module that allows an agent to talk to a specific kind of Transport Server