Social Engineer toolkit The Social Engineer (SET) was created and written by David Kennedy (ReL1K). For the people that don’t know what is social engineering, Social engineering definition according to Wikipedia Social engineering definition according to Wikipedia There are tons of phishing and social engineering techniques and tools as a consequence of we will discuss some of these techniques and tools. Ethical Hacking Training – Resources (InfoSec) Today we are going to talk about different type of attack vectors that social engineering toolkit support that a pen-tester could use to deceive their victims to get control over them.
So being familiar with the configuration options will give you a view about the full features of SET to use these features to launch attack against our victims to convince them to provide the attacker all information that the attacker needs for further attack. In that last part of phishing and social engineering techniques, we discussed in detail the social engineering toolkit configuration which allows us to customize according to the attack scenario. Please check out the earlier installments of this series to get all benefits. In the first article we have discussed what phishing is and what the different types of phishing are and we made a demo of phishing attacks using email-spoofing method to convince our victims to click to our links and finally we had an overview about social engineering toolkit. This is the third part of the phishing and social engineering techniques series.
SET Tutorial For a full document on how to use SET. Please read the LICENSE under readme/LICENSE for the licensing of SET. Do not use this for illegal purposes, period. The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) Copyright 2018 The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) Written by: David Kennedy (ReL1K) Company: DISCLAIMER: This is only for testing purposes and can only be used where strict consent has been given.
SET was developed by David Kennedy and simplifies a number of social engineering attacks such as phishing, spear-phishing, malicious USBs, etc. BackTrack has a tool to assist and automate social engineering attacks called SET, or the Social Engineering Toolkit. I wouldn't use whatever guide you are using, they moved their stuff to git several months ago: sudo apt-get install git git clone.