- Lab
- Security
Network Attacks: Phishing & Malicious Links
In this lab, you’ll practice cloning websites, delivering malicious payloads, and analyzing phishing links. When you’re finished, you’ll have insight into how attackers steal credentials, spread malware, and evade security using social engineering.
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Cloning a Website for Credential Harvesting
Phishing attackers often create fake login pages to trick you into entering your credentials. In this challenge, you will use the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) to generate a fake login page and observe how credentials are harvested. You will use a pre-installed phishing template instead of cloning an external website.
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Crafting and Executing a Malicious File
Attackers often use phishing emails with malicious attachments to gain control of victim machines. In this challenge, you will generate a phishing payload, deliver it via a simulated attack, and analyze its execution.
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Creating and Analyzing Malicious URLs
Phishing attacks often use malicious URLs to redirect users to trigger malware downloads. In this challenge, you will create a malicious URL using SET (Social Engineering Toolkit), host it, and analyze its behavior.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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