Getting started with the Social-Engineer Toolkit

SET can be installed on Linux and macOS; it comes pre-installed on Kali Linux, which also maintains SET updates, meaning that you do not have to worry about manually updating SET.

Getting ready

SET can be downloaded for different platforms from its GitHub repository: https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit. Simply go through the README file and install the dependencies for your preferred distribution, and then run the following command to install SET:

git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/ set/ && cd set && python setup.py install

How to do it...

To launch SET on Kali Linux, start the Terminal window and run the setoolkit command:

How it works...

SET is a Python-based automation tool that creates a menu-driven application for us. Faster execution and the versatility of Python makes it the preferred language for developing modular tools, such as SET.

When using SET with other distributions besides...