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Kali Linux Social Engineering

By : Rahul Singh Patel
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Kali Linux Social Engineering

By: Rahul Singh Patel

Overview of this book

<p>Kali Linux has a specific toolkit that incorporates numerous social-engineering attacks all into one simplified interface. The main purpose of SET (social engineering toolkit) is to automate and improve on many of the social engineering attacks currently out there.</p> <p>This book is based on current advanced social engineering attacks using SET that help you learn how security can be breached and thus avoid it. You will attain a very unique ability to perform a security audit based on social engineering attacks.</p> <p>Starting with ways of performing the social engineering attacks using Kali, this book covers a detailed description on various website attack vectors and client side attacks that can be performed through SET. This book contains some of the most advanced techniques that are currently being utilized by hackers to get inside secured networks. This book covers phishing (credential harvester attack), web jacking attack method, spear phishing attack vector, Metasploit browser exploit method, Mass mailer attack and more.</p> <p>By the end of this book you will be able to test the security of any organization based on social engineering attacks.</p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary


We have learned that to get inside the most secure networks, client-side attacks are considered to be the easiest method. An attacker can take greater advantage of the unsecured application developed by the developer as it is very difficult for the application developer to look for all the software flaws in the given timeline. Hence, because of the time constraint, many vulnerabilities go undiscovered during testing.

In this chapter, we covered how to create a listener and payload that can be used to bypass the AV security of a target machine. We also learned how to perform an E-bomb attack and send spoofed SMSes. In this chapter, we also discussed the different attacks, which can help us to check the security of any organization based on their e-mail platform and application level, such as attacking the web browser or cell phones.