Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)#

Pulled directly from their Github page 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. SET is a product of TrustedSec, LLC – an information security consulting firm located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Install#

The SET is a part of the standard kali repos

sudo apt-get install set


Usage#

They even have a manual (which you can download from their Github page as well). That’s different. It can be found here trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit

The Basics#

The SET is launched from the terminal, however it is ‘menu based’ software. It is launched with

sudo setoolkit

Yes, thats only one ‘t’. You’ll then be presented with the main menu.
SET_MainMenu.png