Machine Learning for Social Engineering

There are a lot of cool new applications of machine learning (ML), and nowhere do these shine as much as they do in social engineering. ML has enabled hugely successful automated spear phishing, as we will learn via a Twitter spear phishing bot recipe. It has also been used to generate fake, but realistic, videos and, at the same time, to discover when these are fake. It offers the ability to voice transfer, detect lies, and many other handy tools that you will see in this chapter's recipes, designed to step up your social engineering game.

This chapter covers the following recipes:

• Twitter spear phishing bot
• Voice impersonation
• Speech recognition for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
• Facial recognition
• Deepfake
• Deepfake recognition
• Lie detection using ML
• Personality analysis
• Social Mapper
• Training a fake review generator
• Generating...