phishing-and-social-engineering-campaigns

phishing-and-social-engineering-campaigns is a skill for Claude Code from akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to running authorized phishing and social-engineering exercises, such as deceptive emails, phone calls, fake scenarios, and credential-collection tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning controlled awareness tests, profiling approved targets, testing email controls such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and recording results.
Why use it?
It helps organizations measure how people and email protections respond to realistic attempts to gain access.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is - [`_shared/references/elite-chaining-strategy.md`](../_shared/references/elite-chaining-strategy.md) — Exploit chaining methodology and high-payout chain patte.

Part of the cyberskills-elite plugin — 191 skills shipped together

Good fit Planning controlled awareness tests, profiling approved targets, testing email controls such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and recording results.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills/phishing-and-social-engineering-campaigns

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cyberskills-elite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 191 skills.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00077 $0.02336
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01168
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00234

Measured 8d ago against content hash d5d9e9662eb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phishing-and-social-engineering-campaigns scanned grade A with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo certbot certonly --standalone -d phish-domain.com

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

# wget -r -l 1 https://target.com/login
skills/red-teaming/initial-access/phishing-and-social-engineering-campaigns/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phishing & Social Engineering Campaigns

When to Use

  • During authorized red team engagements to test human security awareness
  • When simulating APT initial access vectors for organizations
  • When assessing email security controls (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, email gateways)
  • When measuring organization's phishing susceptibility baseline
  • When testing security awareness training effectiveness

⚠️ CRITICAL: NEVER execute social engineering attacks without explicit written authorization (Rules of Engagement). All attacks must be scoped, time-bound, and approved by organizational leadership.

Prerequisites

  • Authorized scope and rules of engagement for the target environment
  • Appropriate tools installed on the attack/analysis platform
  • Understanding of the target technology stack and architecture
  • Documentation template ready for findings and evidence capture

Workflow

Phase 1: OSINT & Target Profiling

# Gather intelligence on target organization
# LinkedIn enumeration
# - Employee names, roles, email format
# - Recent hires (more susceptible)
# - Organizational structure

# Email format discovery
# Test common patterns: first.last@, f.last@, first_last@
# Use hunter.io, phonebook.cz, or email-format.com

# Company intelligence
# - Recent news/events (pretexting material)
# - Technologies used (craft tech-specific pretexts)
# - Partner organizations (third-party pretexts)
# - Office locations (physical social engineering)

# Email validation
# Verify emails exist without sending
# Tools: verify-email, emailhippo, hunter.io verify

Phase 2: Infrastructure Setup

# GoPhish setup
docker pull gophish/gophish
docker run -d --name gophish -p 3333:3333 -p 8080:8080 gophish/gophish

# Access admin panel: https://localhost:3333
# Default creds: admin / <check docker logs>

# Domain setup for phishing
# 1. Register a look-alike domain (typosquatting)
#    target.com → target-security.com, targetsupport.com
# 2. Configure DNS records:
#    - A record → phishing server IP
#    - MX record → phishing server
#    - SPF record: v=spf1 ip4:YOUR_IP ~all
#    - DKIM: Generate and add DKIM record
#    - DMARC: v=DMARC1; p=none;
# 3. SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt)
sudo certbot certonly --standalone -d phish-domain.com

# Email sending setup
# Option 1: SMTP server (postfix)
# Option 2: Third-party email service
# Option 3: Office 365 compromised account (for bypass testing)

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 285 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A d5d9e9662eb7

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phishing-and-social-engineering-campaigns is a skill published in the GitHub repository akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,336 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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