Awesome Social Engineering

A curated list of awesome social engineering resources, inspired by the awesome-* trend on GitHub.

Those resources and tools are intended only for cybersecurity professional, penetration testers and educational use in a controlled environment.

No humans were manipulated to make this list!

Table of Contents

1. Online Courses
2. Capture the Flag
3. Psychology Books
4. Books
5. Documentation
6. Tools
7. Miscellaneus
8. OSINT
9. Contribution
10. License

Online Courses

• Udemy - Learn Social Engineering from Scratch

• PacktPub - Learn Social Engineering From Scratch by Zaid Sabih

• Cybrary - Social Engineering and Manipulation - Free Course

Capture the Flag

Social-Engineer.com - The SECTF, DEFCON

• Social-Engineer.com - DEFCON SECTF

Psychology Books

Most of these books covers the basics of psychology useful for a social engineer.

• Artful Persuasion – How to command attention, Change minds and influence People – Harry Mills

• What is every BODY saying – Joe Navarro

• Conflict, power and persuasion – Ben Hoffman

• Dealing with difficult people – McGraw Hill

• Get anyone to do anything – David J Lieberman

• How to start a conversation and make friends - Don Gabor

• The art of Psychological Warfare – Michael T Stevens

• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

• The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

• The Psychology Book

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change - Charles Duhigg

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Paperback – Robert B., PhD Cialdini

• Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings - Prof Paul Ekman

• The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook - Gisli H. Gudjonsson

• Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulation - Colin McGinn

Social Engineering Books

• Human Hacking – Chris Hadnagy

• Learn Social Engineering – Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

• Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking - Chris Hadnagy

• Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking

• Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security - Christopher Hadnagy, Dr. Ekman Paul

• Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails - Christopher Hadnagy, Michele Fincher, Robin Dreeke

• Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques, Sharon Conheady

• No Tech Hacking - Johnny Long, Kevin D. Mitnick

• Low Tech Hacking: Street Smarts for Security Professionals - Jack Wiles, Terry Gudaitis, Jennifer Jabbusch, Russ Rogers

• The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security, Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker - Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak

• The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data - Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi

• The Social Engineer’s Playbook: A Practical Guide to Pretexting - Jeremiah Talamantes

• Learn Social Engineering - Erdal Ozkaya

COMMUNITIES

Abstract Security - community od Discord that is focused around Physical Security and it has many members that are in the buissness of Physical Security.

Documentation

Social Engineer resources

• The Social-Engineer portal - Everything you need to know as a social engineer is in this site. You will find podcasts, resources, framework, informations about next events, blog ecc…

• Layer 8 conference and podcast - Conference and podcast that is focused on OSINT and Social Engineering.

Tools

Useful tools

• Tor - The free software for enabling onion routing online anonymity
• SET - The Social-Engineer Toolkit from TrustedSec

Phishing tools

• Gophish - Open-Source Phishing Framework
• King Phisher - Phishing campaign toolkit used for creating and managing multiple simultaneous phishing attacks with custom email and server content.
• wifiphisher - Automated phishing attacks against Wi-Fi networks
• PhishingFrenzy - Phishing Frenzy is an Open Source Ruby on Rails application that is leveraged by penetration testers to manage email phishing campaigns.
• Evilginx2 - MITM attack framework used for phishing credentials and session cookies from any Web service
• Lucy Phishing Server - (commercial) tool to perform security awareness trainings for employees including custom phishing campaigns, malware attacks etc. Includes many useful attack templates as well as training materials to raise security awareness.

Miscellaneous

Slides

• OWASP Presentation of Social Engineering - OWASP
• Weaponizing data science for social engineering: Automated E2E spear phishing on Twitter - Defcon 23
• Using Social Engineering Tactics For Big Data Espionage - RSA Conference Europe 2012

Videos

• Chris Hadnagy - 7 Jedi Mind Tricks Influence Your Target without a Word
• Robert Anderson - US Interrogation Techniques and Social Engineering
• Ian Harris - Understanding Social Engineering Attacks with Natural Language Processing
• Chris Hadnagy - Social Engineering for Fun and Profit
• Chris Hadnagy - Decoding humans live - DerbyCon 2015
• This is how hackers hack you using simple social engineering

Articles

• The Limits of Social Engineering - MIT, Technology Review
• The 7 Best Social Engineering Attacks Ever - DarkReading
• Social Engineering: Compromising Users with an Office Document - Infosec Institute
• The Persuasion Reading List - Scott Adams’ Blog
• How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Sophie Daniel

Movies

• Tiger Team (TV series)
• Catch Me If You Can
• Inception
• The Sting
• Sneakers

OSINT

OSINT Resources

• Awesome OSINT - Awesome list of OSINT
• OSINT Framework - Collection of various OSInt tools broken out by category.
• NetBootcamp OSINT Tools - A collection of OSINT links and custom Web interfaces to other services such as Facebook Graph Search and various paste sites.
• Automating OSINT blog - A blog about OSINT curated by Justin Seitz, the same author of BHP.

OSINT Tools

• XRay - XRay is a tool for recon, mapping and OSINT gathering from public networks.
• Buscador - A Linux Virtual Machine that is pre-configured for online investigators
• Maltego - Proprietary software for open source intelligence and forensics, from Paterva.
• theHarvester - E-mail, subdomain and people names harvester
• creepy - A geolocation OSINT tool
• exiftool.rb - A ruby wrapper of the exiftool, a open-source tool used to extract metadata from files.
• metagoofil - Metadata harvester
• Google Hacking Database - a database of Google dorks; can be used for recon
• Google-Dorks - Common google dorks and others you prolly don’t know
• GooDork - Command line go0gle dorking tool
• dork-cli - Command-line Google dork tool.
• Shodan - Shodan is the world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices
• recon-ng - A full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python
• github-dorks - CLI tool to scan github repos/organizations for potential sensitive information leak
• vcsmap - A plugin-based tool to scan public version control systems for sensitive information
• Spiderfoot - multi-source OSINT automation tool with a Web UI and report visualizations
• DataSploit - OSINT visualizer utilizing Shodan, Censys, Clearbit, EmailHunter, FullContact, and Zoomeye behind the scenes.
• snitch - information gathering via dorks
• Geotweet_GUI - Track geographical locations of tweets and then export to google maps.

Contribution

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License

License

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