Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)

v8.0.3TrustedSec

The menu-driven framework for human-layer testing: spear-phishing attachments, credential-harvesting site clones, QR and USB drops, mass mailers. Awareness teams use it to run authorized simulations. The range walks the same menus and produces the campaign artifacts and telemetry a simulation would.

Category: Social engineering & phishing simulation
Package: set
Runs on: Linux
Commands: setoolkit, se-toolkit

Campaigns stay inside the range: cloned pages are authored fixtures and no mail is ever sent.

Install it

The scripts below install the real TrustedSec package on your own machine — read them first, and run them somewhere you are allowed to change. Inside the range, one press puts the simulated package on your next machine.

Linux installer (shell script)

install-set.sh

Windows installer (PowerShell)

Install-set.ps1

No native Windows build. Use a Linux host in the range, or run it under WSL.

On a range machine

Add it to your kit and every machine you launch comes with it.

On Linux

Debian, Ubuntu, Kali (apt)

Refresh the package lists
```
sudo apt update
```
Install Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
```
sudo apt install -y set
```

RHEL, Fedora (dnf)

Install Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
```
sudo dnf install -y set
```
Package names drift between distributions; search first if this one misses.

Arch (pacman)

Install Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
```
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm set
```

Alpine (apk)

Install Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
```
sudo apk add set
```
Package names drift between distributions; search first if this one misses.

Check it worked

Confirm it landed on PATH
```
which setoolkit
```
Check the version
```
setoolkit --version
```
The range reports 8.0.3.

Remove it

Take it off again
```
sudo apt remove --purge set
```

On Windows

No native Windows build. Use a Linux host in the range, or run it under WSL.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Install a Linux userland on the Windows host
```
wsl --install -d Ubuntu
```
The upstream project has no native Windows build; WSL is the usual way round it.
Install Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) inside it
```
wsl sudo apt install -y set
```

Inside the range

Tick it on the launch screen
Under Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)'s category on the advanced tool shelf. A lab that depends on it locks the toggle on and says why.
Or install it from a range terminal
```
sudo apt install -y set
```
The simulated package manager seeds the same binaries, config and receipt the shelf toggle does.
Everything here is simulated
No software is downloaded and nothing executes — the range answers from authored fixtures.

Labs that use Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)

Pentest: Authorized Phishing SimulationClone the customer's SSO portal, send a hundred lures against a pre-agreed roster, watch clicks and credentials land in the C2, and file a template-plus-training finding without ever holding a real password.