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Setoolkit

Auto-generated by Q-Branch Armory audit on 2026-10-12.

Overview

The Social-Engineer Toolkit is an open-source penetration

testing framework designed for social engineering.

Classification

  • **Category:** Phishing attack tools
  • **Armory status:** Installed (source present: social-engineer-toolkit)
  • **Q-Branch check:** Ready — binary found in PATH
  • **Present on VPS3:** yes
  • **Installed flag:** yes
  • **Primary binary:** `setoolkit`
  • **Binary in PATH:** yes
  • **Resolved path:** `/usr/local/bin/tengu-armory-setoolkit`

    • Prerequisites

  • docker
  • go
  • java
  • root
  • ruby
  • wifi

    • Install

    
git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/
cd social-engineer-toolkit && pip install --user .

    Run

    
sudo setoolkit

    Operator notes

  • Launch from the [Digital Armory](/pentest/armory/) — do not maintain parallel tool lists in Q-Branch.
  • If the Q-Branch check is not **Ready**, run install steps or update the HackingTool manifest before relying on this tool in an engagement.
  • For authorized TenguProtect red-team work only.

    • Reference

    https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit