Social Engineering: Techniques and Tools for Successful Social Engineering Attacks | Part 6

Social engineering is a cybercrime involving manipulating people to gain access to sensitive information or systems. Social engineering is a growing threat to businesses and individuals alike.

Attackers use a variety of tools and techniques to manipulate people into divulging sensitive information or accessing protected systems.

In this blog, we’ll take a look at some of the most popular and effective social engineering tools available today.

By understanding these tools and how they work, you can better protect yourself and your organization from social engineering attacks.

1. The Social Engineering Toolkit-

SET is an open-source tool that was developed to demonstrate the ease with which social engineering attacks can be conducted.

It includes a range of pre-built attack vectors and templates, as well as the ability to create custom attacks.

Some examples of attacks included in SET are:

• Spear-phishing attacks: Allows you to create email phishing campaigns.
• Website attacks: Allows you to develop attacks such as website cloning and more.
• Infectious media generator: Enables the creation of an autorun, which can be used on a USB device.
• Create a payload and listener: Creates a reverse shell payload, allowing access to the target machine.
• Mass mailer attack: This creates a phishing email that can be sent to a large audience.
• Arduino-based attacks: Allows you to create attacks by leveraging Arduino devices such as the Teensy. When inserted into a PC, it’s detected as a keyboard, allowing exploits to be delivered to the target machine.
• Wireless access point attacks: This enables a malicious wireless access point to be created and allows you to intercept traffic as it passes.
• QRCode generator attacks: Generates a QRCode to any URL you specify. This is good for redirecting your targets to a malicious URL.
• Powershell attacks: This creates Powershell-based attacks, which can be used to perform a blind shell or dump a SAM database.
• SMS spoofing attacks: This creates an SMS, which can be used to social engineer your target.

To use SET, you will need to install it on a Linux system and launch it from the command line. From there, you can select the attack vector you want to use and follow the prompts to customize and launch the attack.

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