How to Install King Phisher on Fedora CoreOS Latest

King Phisher is a tool designed to simulate real-world phishing attacks. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to install King Phisher on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS.

Prerequisites

Before installing King Phisher on Fedora CoreOS, it is necessary to have the following:

  1. A running instance of Fedora CoreOS
  2. A user account with sudo privileges
  3. Basic knowledge of the Linux command line interface

Installation

  1. Open your terminal and log in to your Fedora CoreOS instance as a user with sudo privileges.

  2. Ensure that you have Python 3 and its pip package manager installed on your Fedora CoreOS system. Run the following commands to install if not already installed:

    sudo dnf install python3
    sudo dnf install python3-pip
    
  3. Install the required dependencies for King Phisher using pip:

    sudo pip3 install setuptools
    sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/threatresponse/coloredlogs.git
    sudo pip3 install psutil
    sudo pip3 install pyopenssl
    sudo pip3 install python-dateutil
    sudo pip3 install pytz
    sudo pip3 install tldextract
    sudo pip3 install urllib3
    
  4. Clone the King Phisher repository and navigate inside:

    git clone https://github.com/rsmusllp/king-phisher.git
    cd king-phisher
    
  5. Install King Phisher using the setup.py script:

    sudo python3 setup.py install
    
  6. King Phisher is now successfully installed on your Fedora CoreOS system.

Usage

  1. To launch King Phisher, navigate to the installation directory and enter the following command:

    king-phisher
    
  2. When you launch King Phisher for the first time, it will create a configuration file in your home directory. You can edit this file to customize King Phisher's settings to your liking.

  3. To launch the King Phisher server, start it with the following command:

    king-phisher initdb
    king-phisher serve
    
  4. After starting the server, you can access the King Phisher web application by entering the IP address and port number in a web browser.

Conclusion

King Phisher is now installed on your Fedora CoreOS system, allowing you to simulate phishing attacks and improve your organization's overall security posture. To learn more about King Phisher, consult the official documentation on the project's GitHub page.

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