Action: post_response

Endpoint

All agent messages go to the same endpoint: /api/v1.4/agent_message

Message Request

The contents of the JSON message from the agent to Apfell when posting tasking responses is as follows:

Base64( CallbackUUID + JSON(
{
	"action": "post_response",
	"responses": [
		{
			"task_id": "uuid of task",
			... response message (see below)
		},
		{
			"task_id": "uuid of task",
			... response message (see below)
		}
	], //if we were passing messages on behalf of other agents
	"delegates": [
		{"UUID1": agentMessage},
		{"UUID2": agentMessage}
		]
}
)
)

There are two things to note here:

• responses - This parameter is a list of all the responses for each tasking.

  • For each element in the responses array, we have a dictionary of information about the response. We also have a task_id field to indicate which task this response is for. After that though, comes the actual response output from the task.

    • If you don't want to hook a certain feature (like sending keystrokes, downloading files, creating artifacts, etc), but just want to return output to the user, the response section can be as simple as: {"task_id": "uuid of task", "user_output": "output of task here"}

  • Each response style is described in Hooking Features. The format described in each of the Hooking features sections replaces the ... response message piece above

    • To continue adding to that JSON response, you can indicate that a command is finished by adding "completed": true or indicate that there was an error with "status": "error".

• delegates - This parameter is not required, but allows for an agent to forward on messages from other callbacks. This is the peer-to-peer scenario where inner messages are passed externally by the egress point. Each of these messages is a self-contained "Agent Message".

Message Response

Apfell responds with the following message format for post_response requests:

Base64( CallbackUUID + JSON(
{
	"action": "post_response",
	"responses": [
		{
			"task_id": UUID,
			"status": "success" or "error",
			"error": 'error message if it exists'
		}
	],
	//if we were passing messages on behalf of other agents
	"delegates": [
		{"UUID1": agentMessage},
		{"UUID2": agentMessage}
		]
}
)
)

There are two things to note here:

• responses - This parameter is always a list and contains a success or error + error message for each task that was responded to.

• delegates - This parameter contains any responses for the messages that came through in the first message