Technical requirements
This chapter makes use of the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET). The tool is pre-installed in the KALI-Linux operating system (OS) or can be installed in any Unix-based or Windows OS. KALI can be installed in a virtualized environment such as VirtualBox (as used in this book) or VMware. KALI pre-built images can be downloaded from the Offensive Security website (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-virtual-machines).
Alternatively, the tool can be installed on Ubuntu by cloning the following repository, https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/, and installing via requirements.txt
using the pip3 install -r requirements.txt
and the python3 setup.py
commands on the terminal.