conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call

conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,963 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call, MIT.

An authorized phone-based security exercise in which a tester uses a made-up identity or situation to see whether employees reveal information or grant access. Vishing means phishing done by voice call.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess social-engineering risks, test reporting and verification procedures, and support security audits. Written authorization and approved targets are required.
Why use it?
It shows whether staff follow identity-checking procedures and whether security training works in realistic conversations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess social-engineering risks, test reporting and verification procedures, and support security audits. Written authorization and approved targets are required.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,963 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00035 $0.01963
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00196

Measured 9d ago against content hash 72bf029981a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call scanned grade A with 0 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call — 31 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cyber-security/ctf/conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conducting Social Engineering Pretext Call

Overview

A pretext call (vishing) is a social engineering technique where an attacker impersonates a trusted authority figure over the phone to manipulate targets into divulging sensitive information, performing actions, or granting access. In red team engagements, pretext calls test the human element of security controls, measuring employee adherence to verification procedures and security awareness training effectiveness. MITRE ATT&CK maps this to T1566.004 (Phishing for Information: Voice) and T1598 (Phishing for Information).

When to Use

  • When conducting security assessments that involve conducting social engineering pretext call
  • When following incident response procedures for related security events
  • When performing scheduled security testing or auditing activities
  • When validating security controls through hands-on testing

Prerequisites

  • Written authorization specifying social engineering scope and boundaries
  • List of approved target employees (usually provided by client)
  • OSINT research on targets and organization
  • Spoofed caller ID capability (authorized for testing)
  • Call recording equipment (with legal consent as required)
  • Pretext scenarios approved by client

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

Technique ID Name Tactic
T1566.004 Phishing: Voice Initial Access
T1598 Phishing for Information Reconnaissance
T1598.003 Phishing for Information: Spearphishing Voice Reconnaissance
T1589 Gather Victim Identity Information Reconnaissance
T1591 Gather Victim Org Information Reconnaissance

Phase 1: OSINT and Target Research

# LinkedIn employee enumeration
theHarvester -d targetcorp.com -b linkedin -l 200

# Company org chart and employee roles
# Review LinkedIn, corporate website "About Us" / "Team" pages

# Technology stack identification
# Check job postings for technology references (VPN vendor, email, helpdesk tool)

# Phone system identification
# Call main line, note IVR options, department names, extension patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 9d ago First seen · 222 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 72bf029981a1

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conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,963 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to conducting-social-engineering-pretext-call, differing in 31 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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