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Infrastructure automation for offensive operations. https://analog-substance.github.io/carbon/

Purpose

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Carbon's primary purpose is to provide a consistent execution environment to facilitate offensive security assessments.

It uses:

• Packer to build images.
• Terraform to provision infrastructure.
• Golang project structure.

Features

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It is aimed at supporting various services to ensure it can scale with you as your operations become more complex.

Feature	AWS ✅	QEMU ✅	VirtualBox ✅	vSphere ❌	Multipass ✅	Azure ❌	GCP ❌
Image build templates	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ N/A	❌	❌
Build images	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ N/A	❌	❌
Launch one off VM from images	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Destroy VMs	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ N/A	❌	❌
VM Start/Stop/SSH/VNC	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
Infrastructure Creation	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌ N/A	❌	❌

❌ = Not Right Now, but planned
✅ = Supported

Install

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You can download a prebuilt release from our GitHub Releases page. Or use go install.

go install github.com/analog-substance/carbon@latest

Requirements

Carbon expects the following to be installed and accessible in your $PATH.

• Packer
• Terraform
• SSH Client
• vncviewer (TigerVNC)

Usage

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Manage and use infrastructure with a consistent interface, regardless of where it lives.

Usage:
  carbon [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  config      Display config information
  dev         Unstable sub-commands for testing random ideas
  help        Help about any command
  image       manage images and image builds
  vm          Manage and interact with VMs

Flags:
      --config string         config file (default is $HOME/.carbon.yaml)
  -e, --environment strings   Environment to use. Some providers/profiles support many environments.
  -h, --help                  help for carbon
  -j, --json                  Output in JSON
  -p, --profile strings       Profile to use. Like an instance of a provider. Used to specify aws profiles
  -P, --provider strings      Provider to use vbox, aws
  -v, --version               version for carbon

Use "carbon [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Images

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Bootstrap Image Build Configuration

carbon image bootstrap -n my-image -t ubuntu-24.04 -s aws

Build Images

carbon image build -n my-image

Manage Images and Image Builds

List image build configs.

carbon image list -b

Infrastructure

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Create New Infrastructure

Modify Infrastructure

Teardown Infrastructure

Operating

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Starting

carbon vm start -i i-afde123ae43

Stopping

carbon vm stop -i i-afde123ae43

Connecting to VMs

carbon vm ssh -i i-afde123ae43

Things to do

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• docs
  • vhs example gifs
• create/destroy one off VMs
• provision aws env (create files, call terraform)
• Self Test to ensure dependencies are met
• Cloud init from templates (Base, Operator, Operator Desktop, Implant VM)
• vSphere provider
• DNS management
  • point a domain
  • list domains
• Jobs / Distributed execution
• Simple deploy/config of services (Pwndoc, Gophish, modlishka, Guacamole, Sliver, Mythic)
• GCP Provider
• Azure Provider
• LXD Provider
• Different OS (CentOS, Arch)
• Chat Bots
  • Slack Bot
  • Discord Bot
• Web GUI
• tests (lol, this should not be last)