In this chapter we will learn about the social engineering tools used in kali linux social engineering toolkit usage the social engineer toolkit set is an open source penetration testing framework designed for social engineering set has a number of custom attack vectors that allow you to make a believable attack in a fraction of time. Fortunately we are not gonna install any tools our kali linux machine has pre installed set social engineering toolkit thats all we need oh yeah if you dont know what is set is i will give you the background on this toolkit social engineering toolkit is design to perform human side penetration test. Social engineering toolkit humans are the weakest link in any security system shashwat thatll be meif you have read the previous post then you know what im talking about social engineering toolkit does not exploit vulnerability in the mechanism of any service it exploits the weakness in the human element of security. Kali linux includes one of the popular social engineering attack toolkit available devid kennedys social engineering toolkit set devids team is very active on set there are always new features and attacks being added more recently several non social engineering tools have been also added to set making it a very robust attack tool