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Client-Side Exploitation with Social Engineering

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Part of Pentesting and Network Exploitation Topic: Hacking

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What you'll do

In this lab, students will simulate a social engineering attack by performing actions as both the attacker and the victim to demonstrate how phishing attacks occur and how easily users can be deceived.

  • Using Cobalt Strike, students will create a listener, host a malicious payload on a web server, and craft a phishing email containing a malicious link that executes a Java payload when clicked.
  • The objective is to compromise the target system and ultimately escalate privileges to gain administrative access.

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