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king-phisher — Simulate realistic phishing campaigns with credential harvesting, email tracking, and landing page cloning for security awareness training and authorized penetration testing. | Kitploit
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king-phisher

Simulate realistic phishing campaigns with credential harvesting, email tracking, and landing page cloning for security awareness training and authorized penetration testing.

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Phishing Campaign Toolkit

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King Phisher is no longer being maintained.

Installation

For instructions on how to install, please see the INSTALL.md file. After installing, for instructions on how to get started please see the wiki.

Overview

King Phisher is a tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks. It features an easy to use, yet very flexible architecture allowing full control over both emails and server content. King Phisher can be used to run campaigns ranging from simple awareness training to more complicated scenarios in which user aware content is served for harvesting credentials.

King Phisher is only to be used for legal applications when the explicit permission of the targeted organization has been obtained.

Get the latest stable version from the GitHub Releases Page or use git to checkout the project from source.

Feature Overview

  • Run multiple phishing campaigns simultaneously
  • Send email with embedded images for a more legitimate appearance
  • Optional Two-Factor authentication
  • Credential harvesting from landing pages
  • SMS alerts regarding campaign status
  • Web page cloning capabilities
  • Integrated Sender Policy Framework (SPF) checks
  • Geo location of phishing visitors
  • Send email with calendar invitations

Plugins

Both the client and server can be extended with functionality provided by plugins. A small number of plugins are packaged with King Phisher and additional ones are available in the Plugins repository.

Template Files

Template files for both messages and server pages can be found in the separate King Phisher Templates repository. Any contributions regarding templates should also be submitted via a pull request to the templates repository.

Documentation

Documentation for users of the application is provided on the project's wiki page. This includes steps to help new users get started with their first campaigns. Additional technical documentation intended for developers is kept separate as outlined in section below.

Code Documentation

King Phisher uses Sphinx for internal technical documentation. This documentation can be generated from source with the command sphinx-build -b html docs/source docs/html. The latest documentation is kindly hosted on ReadTheDocs at king-phisher.readthedocs.io.

Message Template Variables

The client message templates are formatted using the Jinja2 templating engine and support a number of variables. These are included here as a reference, check the templates wiki page for comprehensive documentation.

The uid is the most important, and must be present in links that the messages contain.

License

King Phisher is released under the BSD 3-clause license, for more details see the LICENSE file.

Credits

Special Thanks (QA / Beta Testing):

  • Jake Garlie - jagar
  • Jeremy Schoeneman - Shad0wman
  • Bryan Sfara
  • Ken Smith - p4tchw0rk
  • Brianna Whittaker

King Phisher Development Team:

  • Erik Daguerre - wolfthefallen (@wolf_thefallen)
  • Brandan Geise - coldfusion (@coldfusion39)
  • Jeff McCutchan - jamcut (@jamcut)
  • Spencer McIntyre - zeroSteiner (@zeroSteiner)
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Variable NameVariable Value
client.company_nameThe target's company name
client.email_addressThe target's email address
client.first_nameThe target's first name
client.last_nameThe target's last name
client.message_idThe unique tracking identifier (this is the same as uid)
sender.emailThe email address in the "Source Email (MIME)" field
sender.friendly_aliasThe value of the "Friendly Alias" field
sender.reply_toThe value of the "Reply To" field
url.tracking_dotURL of an image used for message tracking
url.webserverPhishing server URL with the uid parameter
url.webserver_rawPhishing server URL without any parameters
tracking_dot_image_tagThe tracking image in a preformatted `````` tag
uidThe unique tracking identifier (this is the same as client.message_id)