Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering

This chapter focuses on client-side attacks, where the victim's action will allow us to gain access to their system, which is where the social engineering concept is going to be useful to help us to launch an attack. We are going to look at a tool called Maltego, which is a very powerful tool for gathering information, but we will just look at it's basic applications in this chapter. Then, we are going to search all the possible social links that are related to our target; we will be using the Maltego tool for this, too. Following that, we are going to target the victim via their Twitter and email contacts. As we move ahead, we will be using the backdoor file. Then, we will generate an icon for the file – it looks more like an ordinary image, but it is a backdoor in disguise so that we can get access to the system. We will...