# trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) repository from TrustedSec - All new versions of SET will be deployed here.

Repository: https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/social-engineer-toolkit
Language: Python
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-06-04T21:23:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 85, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4993, "days_push": 90, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 15239, forks 3413 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:09.422798+00:00)

## What it is
The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is an open-source Python-based penetration testing framework for authorized social-engineering assessments. It provides guided attack vectors so security teams can test user awareness, validate controls, and run consent-based red-team exercises.

## Use cases
- run social-engineering attack simulations for authorized pentests
- test employee awareness against phishing campaigns
- conduct consent-based red-team exercises
- validate security controls against social-engineering vectors
- set up a controlled phishing payload delivery in a lab
- train security teams on social-engineering techniques

## When to choose
- you are a pentester or red-teamer with explicit authorization to test social-engineering resilience
- you need guided, menu-driven attack vectors for phishing and social-engineering assessments
- you run Kali Linux or a Linux environment and want a well-known, maintained toolkit

## When to avoid
- you lack explicit permission and scope from the target organization
- you need general-purpose vulnerability scanning rather than social-engineering vectors
- you need a Windows-native tool (Windows is only supported via WSL)
- you want a GUI-based phishing simulation platform for corporate awareness programs

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: penetration-testing, security, cli
- domain: security, penetration-testing, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: social-engineering, red-team, phishing, pentesting, setoolkit, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.422798+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:06:32.615055+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.422798+00:00, sha 06fd3f7e0b02)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.