Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Kali Linux 2:  Windows Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing Kali Linux: a complete pentesting toolkit facilitating smooth backtracking for working hackers

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168492
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Sharpening the Saw FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering and Vulnerability Assessment 3. Exploitation Tools (Pwnage) 4. Web Application Exploitation 5. Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password Attacks 7. Windows Privilege Escalation 8. Maintaining Remote Access 9. Reverse Engineering and Stress Testing 10. Forensics Index

Creating a Spear-Phishing Attack with the Social Engineering Toolkit


The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) license agreement states that SET is designed purely for good and not evil. Any use of this tool for malicious purposes that are unauthorized by the owner of the network and equipment violates the terms of service (TOS) and license of this toolset. To find this tool, go through the menu Kali Linux | Exploitation Tools | Social Engineering Toolkit, or type setoolkit on the command line:

This is going to be a Metasploit reverse HTTP exploit, so there are a couple of steps that you have to put in place before using SET:

Start the Metasploit service.

In Kali 1.x, this was two steps, but in Kali 2.0, the previous image, starting the service, and the next image, opening the Metasploit Framework Console, are one command:

  1. Start up the Metasploit console by going through the menus Applications | 08. Exploitation Tools | Metasploit Framework. You can also start the Metasploit Framework Console...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime