Additional SET Features

We won’t cover every aspect of the Social-Engineer Toolkit, but it does have some particularly notable aspects. One tool of note is the SET Interactive Shell: an interactive shell that can be selected as a payload instead of Meterpreter. Another feature is RATTE (Remote Administration Tool Tommy Edition), a full HTTP tunneling payload that was created by Thomas Werth. It relies on HTTP-based communications and piggybacks proxy settings on the target machine. RATTE is particularly useful when the target uses egress and packet inspection rules that can detect non-HTTP traffic. RATTE uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm for communications to allow full encryption over HTTP.

Two other tools include the SET Web-GUI (a full-fledged ...

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