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Learn Social Engineering From Scratch
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Rating: 4.7 out of 5(6,315 ratings)
49,298 students

Learn Social Engineering From Scratch

Hack secure accounts and computers (Windows, Apple Mac OS, Linux and Android) and secure yourself from hackers
Bestseller
Created byZaid Sabih, z Security
Last updated 11/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Hack updated & patched systems (Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS and Android).
  • Generate undetectable backdoors for Windows, Apple Mac OS, Linux & Android.
  • Steal passwords from Windows & Linux.
  • Hack with Microsoft Office documents.
  • Backdoor Android applications.
  • Make evil files (backdoors / keyloggers) look and function like normal files (image, pdf or any other file type).
  • Manually modify malware to bypass anti-virus programs.
  • Advanced malware delivery techniques (fake pages, fake emails, indirect notifications, etc)
  • Advanced post exploitation.
  • Discover websites, companies, people, emails and social networking accounts associated with a person or a company.
  • Install hacking lab & needed software (on Windows, Apple Mac OS and Linux)
  • Install Kali Linux - a penetration testing operating system
  • Install windows & vulnerable operating systems as virtual machines for testing
  • Linux basics
  • Linux commands and how to interact with the terminal
  • Build attack strategies based on the gathered info
  • Generate a remote keylogger that logs every key strike entered on a target computer and sends reports by email.
  • Backdoor Debian packages for Linux
  • Generate Apple Mac OS backdoors that look and function like normal files (image, pdf ..etc).
  • Hack Apple Mac OS and Linux computers by using a simple one line command.
  • Send emails from ANY email account.
  • Create fake websites that look exactly like any other website.
  • Create a fake login page and use it to steal passwords.
  • Use smart social engineering techniques to make the target person willingly use our fake website.
  • Deliver malware as fake updates, fake installers ..etc.
  • Read, write download, upload and execute files on compromised systems.
  • Capture key strikes on compromised systems.
  • Use a compromised computer as a pivot to hack other computers on the same network.
  • Maintain your access to the hacked systems even after restart.
  • Escalate your privileges to admin.
  • Analyse files & detect undetectable malware.
  • Use a sandbox to analyse undetectable malware.
  • Access messages, social accounts, camera, GPS .....etc of hacked phone.

Course content

20 sections • 110 lectures • 12h 39m total length

  • Teaser - Hacking An Android Phone & Accessing The Camera5:34

    This is a teaser lecture showing you an example of what you'll be able to do by the end of the course, don't worry about the technical aspect here, you will learn each step done here later on in the course, so just sit back and enjoy the lecture.

  • Introduction to Social Engineering3:14

    This lecture will give you an brief intro of what social engineering is, why its used in hacking, and why learn it?

  • Course Overview4:16

    This lecture will give you an overview of the whole course, its main sections, and what you'll learn in each of these sections.

Requirements

  • Basic IT Skills
  • No Linux, programming or hacking knowledge required.
  • Computer with a minimum of 4GB ram/memory
  • Operating System: Windows / Apple Mac OS / Linux

Description

Last Update: June 2024


Note: Although social engineering is covered in one of my other courses, that course only covers the basics where this course dives much deeper in this topic covering more techniques, how to hack more operating systems, advanced exploitation, advanced post exploitation, bypassing security and more!


Welcome to this comprehensive course on Social Engineering! This course assumes you have NO prior knowledge in hacking, it starts with you from scratch and takes you step-by-step to an advanced level. By the end of it you'll be able to hack all major operating systems (windows, Apple Mac OS, Linux and Android) like black-hat hackers and secure yourself from hackers.


This course is highly practical but doesn't neglect the theory, we'll start with basics to teach you how to install the needed software (on Windows, Linux and Apple Mac OS). Then we'll start hacking straight away, you'll learn everything by example, no boring lectures! You will understand the theory behind every attack first and then you'll learn how to use that attack in a practical real life scenario to hack Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS and Android. So by the end of the course you'll be able to modify these techniques or combine them to come up with more powerful attacks and adopt them to different scenarios and different operating systems.


The course is divided into a number of sections to represent the steps you'd take to successfully hack a target using social engineering.

1. Information Gathering - First you need to know your target, in this section you'll learn how to gather information about your target whether it is a company, a website or just a person. You will learn how to discover anything that is associated with your target such as websites, links, companies, users, emails, phone numbers, friends, social networks accounts, etc. You will also learn how to plot all of this information on a graph and use it to build smart attack strategies.


2. Generating Malware  - Now that you gathered enough information about your target and came up with an attack strategy, the next step is to create custom malware that is attractive to the target. This section will teach you how to create backdoors, keyloggers, credential harvesters and more, these files will work on all operating systems (Windows, Apple Mac OS, Linux and Android). You'll also learn how to enhance these files to make them bypass all anti-virus programs, and make them look and function just like any other file such as an image or a pdf,  or even embed them in legitimate Microsoft Office documents. 


3. Delivery Methods - Now that you have your custom-made trojan ready, in this section you will learn a number of social engineering techniques to deliver it to the target, you will learn how to create fake websites that look identical to websites the target trusts, send emails that appear like they're send from trusted sources and use fake login pages and fake updates to hack the target. You'll also learn advanced social engineering techniques to lure the target to visit your malicious website without even interacting with them.


4. Post Exploitation - In this section you will learn how to interact with the systems you compromised whether they use Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS or even Android. You’ll learn how to access the file system (read/write/upload/execute), maintain your access, escalate your privileges, spy on the target, use the target computer as a pivot to hack other computers and more! If your target uses Android then you'll also learn how to read their messages, find their location, access their other accounts (such as Whatsapp, Facebook, etc.) and more!


Finally at the end of the course you will learn how to protect yourself and your systems from these attacks.


With this course you'll get 24/7 support, so if you have any questions you can post them in the Q&A section and we'll respond to you within 15 hours.


Checkout the curriculum and the course teaser for more info!


Notes:

  • This course is created for educational purposes only and all the attacks are launched in my own lab or against devices that I have permission to test.

  • This course is totally a product of Zaid Sabih & zSecurity, no other organization is associated with it or a certification exam. Although, you will receive a Course Completion Certification from Udemy, apart from that NO OTHER ORGANIZATION IS INVOLVED.



Who this course is for:

  • People who want to learn ethical hacking / social engineering
  • People who want to learn how hackers hack into secure systems that do not have any vulnerabilities
  • Anybody who wants to learn how to secure their systems from social engineering attacks

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