Before performing the steps below, be sure to install subversion before installing the selected tools. Subversion is simply a source version repository that allows you to keep up to date with any modifications or changes to SET.
The Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of pentesting. It’s main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed. Currently SET has two main methods of attack, one is utilizing Metasploit payloads and Java-based attacks by setting up a malicious website (which you can clone whatever one you want) that ultimately delivers your payload. The second method is through file-format bugs and e-mail phishing. The second method supports your own open-mail relay, a customized sendmail open-relay, or Gmail integration to deliver your payloads through e-mail. The goal of SET is to bring awareness to the often forgotten attack vector of social-engineering.
To download the Social-Engineer Toolkit, type the following:
root@fortress:/pentest/exploits/# svn co http://svn.secmaniac.com/social_engineering_toolkit set/
Artillery is a honeypot/monitoring/prevention tool used to protect Linux-based systems. Artillery will setup multiple ports on the nix system and if anything touches it will automatically blacklist them. In addition, it monitors the filesystem for changes and emails the changes back to you. It also detects SSH brute force attacks and automatically blocks them as well.
root@fortress:/root/# svn co http://svn.secmaniac.com/artillery artillery/
Then python install.py