The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is specifically designed to perform advanced attacks against the human element. SET was designed to be released with the http://www.social-engineer.org launch and has quickly became a standard tool in a penetration testers arsenal. The attacks built into the toolkit are designed to be focused attacks against a person or organization used during a penetration test.

Description

The Social-Engineer Toolkit is an open-source penetration testing framework designed for social engineering. SET has a number of custom attack vectors that allow you to make a believable attack quickly.

DISCLAIMER: This is only for testing purposes and can only be used where strict consent has been given. Do not use this for illegal purposes, period.

Supported platforms:

  • Linux
  • Mac OS X (experimental)

Installation

Install via requirements.txt

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py 

Installation

Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 Kali Linux

sudo apt install set -y

Kali Linux on Windows 10 is a minimal installation so it doesn’t have any tools installed. You can easily install Social Engineer Toolkit on WSL/WSL2 without needing pip using the above command.

Linux

git clone https://github.com/Pr0f3ssor/SETOOLKIT.git
cd SETOOLKIT
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py

SET Tutorial

For a full document on how to use SET, visit the SET user manual.

GitHub

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