The Best GitHub Social Engineering Tools: A Comprehensive Guide
Social engineering remains one of the most effective attack vectors in cybersecurity, exploiting human psychology rather than technical vulnerabilities. GitHub, a hub for developers and security researchers, hosts a plethora of tools designed to understand, simulate, and defend against these attacks. This blog post delves into some of the most notable social engineering tools available on GitHub, providing a detailed overview of their functionalities, use cases, and direct links for further exploration. Whether you're a security professional looking to test an organization's resilience or an enthusiast eager to understand the mechanics of social engineering, these tools offer invaluable insights.
1. Trape
Description: Trape is an OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) analysis and research tool that allows real-time tracking and execution of intelligent social engineering attacks. It can trace the path between the user and the target, obtain the target's location silently, manage social engineering attacks in the target's browser (e.g., phishing, injecting JavaScript, playing audio messages), and obtain credentials. It also provides network information like speed and connected devices, and a summary of the target's behavior and device information.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/jofpin/trape
2. Fluxion
Description: Fluxion is a security auditing and social-engineering research tool, a remake of linset. It aims to retrieve WPA/WPA2 keys from target access points using social engineering (phishing) attacks. It creates a rogue (fake) AP, spawns a DNS server to redirect requests to a captive portal, and a web server to serve the captive portal that prompts users for their WPA/WPA2 key. It also deauthenticates clients from the original AP to lure them to the rogue AP. The attack terminates once a correct key is submitted.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/FluxionNetwork/fluxion
3. The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
Description: The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is an open-source penetration testing framework designed for social engineering. It provides various custom attack vectors to create believable attacks quickly. SET is a product of TrustedSec, LLC, and is intended for testing purposes with strict consent. It supports Linux and experimental Mac OS X. SET can be used for various social engineering attacks, including credential harvesting and phishing.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit
4. Storm-Breaker
Description: Storm-Breaker is a social engineering tool that allows access to webcam, microphone, and location information from target devices (smartphones and PCs) without explicit permission. It has evolved into a web panel-based tool with features like obtaining device information, auto-downloading Ngrok, optimized templates, downloadable logs, and a beautified user interface. It can be run on both localhost and personal domains.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/ultrasecurity/Storm-Breaker
5. MaskPhish
Description: MaskPhish is a Bash script that provides "URL Making Technology" to hide phishing URLs under normal-looking URLs (e.g., google.com or facebook.com). It's a proof-of-concept tool intended for educational purposes and can be integrated into other phishing tools to make URLs appear legitimate. It's been tested on Kali Linux, Termux, and Ubuntu.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/jaykali/maskphish
6. Penetration-Testing-Tools
Description: This is a comprehensive collection of over 170 tools, scripts, and cheatsheets developed for penetration testing and IT security audits. While not exclusively a social engineering tool, it contains a dedicated 'phishing' section with scripts and tools for delivering phishing awareness and red team simulations. It also includes utilities for cloud assessments, file formats, Linux, networks, web applications, and Windows.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/mgeeky/Penetration-Testing-Tools
7. macro_pack
Description: macro_pack is a tool used to automate obfuscation and generation of Office documents, VB scripts, shortcuts, and other formats for pentest, demo, and social engineering assessments. It simplifies exploitation, antimalware bypass, and automates the process from malicious macro and script generation to final document generation. It also provides features useful for red teaming and security research.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/sevagas/macro_pack
8. Dr0p1t-Framework
Description: Dr0p1t-Framework is a tool that allows users to create stealthy droppers that can bypass most antivirus software. It includes features like silent execution, self-destruction, event log clearing, and various persistence modules. It also supports spoofing file icons and extensions.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/D4Vinci/Dr0p1t-Framework
9. PhishMailer
Description: PhishMailer is a tool designed to help users create professional phishing emails quickly and easily. It comes with 20 different templates for popular services like Instagram, Facebook, Gmail, and more. It generates HTML files and can send emails to targets.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/BiZken/PhishMailer
10. SocialPwned
Description: SocialPwned is an OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tool that gathers email addresses from social networks like Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It helps identify potential credential leaks by cross-referencing with databases like PwnDB and Dehashed, and can also obtain Google account information via GHunt.
GitHub Link:https://github.com/MrTuxx/SocialPwned
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