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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Creating a password harvester with SET


Social engineering attacks may be considered as a special kind of client-side attacks. In such attacks, the attacker has to convince the user that the attacker is a trustworthy counterpart and is authorized to receive the information the user has.

SET or the Social-Engineer Toolkit (https://www.trustedsec.com/social-engineer-toolkit/) is a set of tools designed to perform attacks against the human element; attacks, such as Spear-phishing, mass e-mails, SMS, rouge wireless access point, malicious websites, infected media, and so on.

In this recipe, we will use SET to create a password harvester web page and look at how it works and how attackers use it to steal a user's passwords.

How to do it...

  1. In a terminal, write the following command as root:

    setoolkit
    
  2. In the set> prompt, write 1 (for Social-Engineering Attacks) and hit Enter.

  3. Now select Website Attack Vectors (option 2).

  4. From the following menu, we will use the Credential Harvester Attack Method (option...

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