TOOL TUTORIAL · Security Awareness & Social Engineering Simulation

How to install and use Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)

The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a popular framework used for social engineering attacks and security testing. It is designed to perform advanced attacks and simulations by exploiting human behavior rather than technical vulnerabilities. SET is widely used for phishing, c…

Quick install: git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit.git

Installation steps

  1. Run git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit.git
  2. Change into the folder with cd social-engineer-toolkit
  3. Install requirements with pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  4. Install the toolkit with sudo python3 setup.py
  5. Start it any time with sudo setoolkit

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