Social Engineering Technique

Goal: assess organizational resilience to human-factor attacks through authorized, controlled social engineering campaigns.

When this technique applies

• Engagement authorizes phishing, vishing, or physical social engineering.
• Need to design pretexts or campaign narratives.
• Need to measure and report on human-factor security metrics.

Boundary

• Phishing infrastructure: phishing-technique (GoPhish, Evilginx2, domain setup).
• OSINT for target research: osint-technique.
• Payload delivery: offensive-coding/shellcode-dev/, offensive-tools/exploits/metasploit/.

Authorization gate