Working with the spear-phishing attack vector

A spear-phishing attack vector is an email attack scenario that is used to send malicious emails to target/specific user(s). In order to spoof your own email address, you will require a sendmail server. Change the config setting to SENDMAIL=ON. If you do not have sendmail installed on your Debian-based machine, then it can be downloaded by entering the following command:

apt install sendmail

How to do it...

The spear-phishing module has three different attack vectors at our disposal:

1. Let's analyze first. Passing the first option will start the mass email attack. The attack vector starts by selecting a payload. You can select any vulnerability from the list of available Metasploit...