Socialphish- Phishing Tool in Kali Linux

SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Winston. I

2/19/20243 min read

Socialphish is a powerful open-source Phishing Tool. Socialphish is becoming very popular nowadays which is used to do phishing attacks on Target. Socialphish is more user-friendly Social Engineering Toolkit. Socialphish contains some templates generated by another tool called Socialphish. Socialphish offers phishing templates and web pages for 33 popular sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Google, Snapchat, Github, Yahoo, Protonmail, Spotify, Netflix, Linkedin, WordPress, Origin, Steam, Microsoft, etc. Socialphish also provides the option to use a custom template if someone wants. This tool makes it easy to perform a phishing attack. There is a lot of creativity that they can put into making the email look as legitimate as possible

a man in a hoodie using a laptop computer
a man in a hoodie using a laptop computer

Features of Socialphish:

  • Socialphish is an open source tool.

  • Socialphish is used in Phishing attacks.

  • Socialphish tool is a very simple and easy tool. Socialphish is written in bash language.

  • Socialphish tool is a lightweight tool. This does not take extra space.

  • Socialphish creates phishing pages on more than 30 websites.

  • Socialphish creates phishing pages of popular sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Google, Snapchat, Github, Yahoo, Protonmail, Spotify, Netflix, Linkedin, WordPress, Origin, Steam, Microsoft, etc

Installation:

Step 1: Open your Kali Linux operating system. Move to desktop. Here you have to create a directory called Socialphish. In this directory, you have to install the tool.

cd Desktop

Step 2: Now you are on the desktop. Here you have to create a directory called Socialphish. To create the Maskphish directory use the following command.

mkdir Socialphish

Step 3: You have created a directory. Now use the following command to move into that directory.

cd socialphish


Step 4: Now you are in the Socialphish directory. In this directory you have to download the tool means you have to clone the tool from GitHub. Use the following command to clone the tool from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/pvanfas/socialphish.git

Step 5: The tool has been downloaded in the directory Socialphish. Now to list out the contents of the tool that has been downloaded use the following command.

ls

You can see credentials have been found. Even you can perform this attack using yourself on to your target. This was all about Socialphish. Socialphish is a powerful open-source tool Phishing Tool. Socialphish is becoming very popular nowadays that is used to do phishing attacks on Target. Socialphish is easy than Social Engineering Toolkit. Socialphish contains some templates generated by another tool called Socialfish. Socialphish offers phishing templates and web pages for 33 popular sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Google, Snapchat, Github, Yahoo, Protonmail, Spotify, Netflix, Linkedin, WordPress, Origin, Steam, and Microsoft, etc

Step 6: Now that we already have the tool, we can start using it now by running

./socialphish