During a penetration test, you are tasked with crafting a phishing campaign to test the organization's resilience to social engineering efforts. Using the Social Engineering Toolkit, which of the following would be the BEST approach to emulate a realistic spear-phishing attack?
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Send out generic business-related documents that contain no organization-specific information.
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Clone a known trusted site and slightly modify it to collect user credentials.
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Replicate an exact copy of their public website to confuse employees.
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Modify the organization's public website to redirect to your malicious site.
The correct answer is to clone a known trusted site and slightly modify it (e.g., a login page of their webmail) to collect user credentials. This approach is considered the most effective because it presents a familiar interface to the target, thereby increasing the likelihood of the phishing attack being successful. In contrast, replicating an exact copy of a website may raise red flags if the URL or security certificates don't match, while modifying a company's public website or sending unrelated documents might not be as convincing or relevant to the targeted individual.
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