The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a Python-based set of tools that target the human side of penetration testing. We can use SET to perform phishing attacks, web jacking attacks that involve victim redirection stating that the original website has moved to a different place, file format-based exploits that target particular software for exploitation of the victim's system, and many others. The best thing about using SET is the menu-driven approach, which will set up quick exploitation vectors in no time.
Tutorials on SET can be found at: https://www.social-engineer.org/framework/se-tools/computer-based/social-engineer-toolkit-set/.
SET is extremely fast at generating client-side exploitation templates. However, we can make it faster using the automation scripts. Let's see an example:
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