UPDATE: Social Engineer Toolkit v2.4.1!

by Mayuresh on November 16, 2011

in Open Source, Penetration Testing, Security Reconnaissance, Tool Updates

Social Engineer Toolkit has been updated! We now have the Social Engineer Toolkit version 2.4.1! We wrote about the Social Engineer’s Toolkit in our old post here.Social Engineer Toolkit 2.4.1

The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing.
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.

Official change log for Social Engineer Toolkit v2.4.1:

  • Fixed a timing delay bug in port scanner for slow connections, would timeout and not recognize port
  • Fixed a parsing error in portscanner when using single ip addresses
  • Added optimization around mssql-bruter in Fast-Track
  • Added new windows shell option on compromised systems as an alterantive option to debug/powershell attack
  • Tuned mssql bruter to work better with SQL Server 2007
  • Added automatic enable of xp_cmdshell through show advanced options in the windows shell
  • Added better error handling through mssql bruter forcer
  • Added error handling around xp_cmdhshell enablement
  • Fixed a bug that would cause mssql bruter to not stop after it successfully brute forced an account
  • Added better stability all around to the fast-track mssql bruter

Download Social Engineer Toolkit v2.3:

To download the Social Engineer Toolkit via the SVN:
svn co http://svn.secmaniac.com/social_engineering_toolkit set/

Download the tarball (set.tar.gz) – http://www.secmaniac.com/files/set.tar.gz

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