Getting started with Social Engineer Toolkit (SET)

Let us start our introductory recipe about SET where we will be discussing SET on different platforms.

Getting ready

SET can be downloaded for different platforms from its official site, www.social-engineer.com. It has both the GUI version, which runs through browser and the command-line version, which can be executed from the terminal. It comes pre-installed in BackTrack which will be our platform for discussion in this chapter.

How to do it...

To launch SET on BackTrack, start the terminal window and pass the following path:

root@bt:~# cd /pentest/exploits/set
root@bt:/pentest/exploits/set# ./set
Copyright 2012, The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
All rights reserved.
Select from the menu:

   1) Social-Engineering Attacks
   2) Fast-Track Penetration Testing
   3) Third Party Modules
   4) Update the Metasploit Framework
   5) Update the Social-Engineer Toolkit
   6) Help, Credits, and About

  99) Exit the Social-Engineer Toolkit

If you are...