Agent Manx on a Windows doesn't download the payloads

[deacon-mp]

Hello,

I am using the agent Manx on a Windows machine. When I try to execute an ability that requires a payload it fails at each time. This is because the payload is never uploaded on the agent side. Do you know what the problem should be? How can I debug that?

Thank you in advance,
Nicolas

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Migrated from mitre/caldera#3074

[deacon-mp]

Triage note: The payload download failure on Windows is likely related to the server field in shells/manx.go (buildProfile) being set to the TCP socket address (profile["server"] = socket) rather than the HTTP server address. The agent uses server to download payloads, but the TCP socket address is not a valid HTTP endpoint for payload retrieval.

PR #31 (profile_server_fix) is already open and addresses this by using the HTTP server value in the agent profile instead of the C2 connection string. Please review and merge PR #31 to resolve this issue.

Additionally, the dynamically_compile method in app/term_api.py does not pass a Windows-specific architecture header by default — users must ensure the correct platform:windows header is set when requesting the agent binary.

[deacon-mp]

Fixed in PR #56