Chapter 8. Social Engineering

Social Engineering

Social Engineering  is an open source tool to perform online social engineering attacks. The tool can be used for various attack scenarios including spear phishing and website attack vectors. Social Engineer Toolkit works in an integrated manner with Metasploit. It enables the execution of client-side attacks and seamless harvesting of credentials. With Social Engineer Toolkit, one can backdoor an executable and send it to the victim. It can automatically create fake login pages of a given website and spawn a server to listen to returning connections.

Social Engineering Toolkit Tools

  • SETOOLKIT – This tools comes with lots of options for penteasters.
  • Website Attack Vectors > Site Cloner > Credential Harvester
  • Cloning Facebook – After successful cloned facebook, if you send the link to any one, you will get their email and password. This is a great way to trick someone to simply get their login credentials.

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