Open-Source Phishing Framework: gophish
Gophish is a phishing framework that makes the simulation of real-world phishing attacks dead-simple. The idea behind gophish is simple – make industry-grade phishing training available to everyone.
“Available” in this case means two things –
- Affordable – Gophish is currently open-source software that is completely free for anyone to use.
- Accessible – Gophish is written in the Go programming language. This has the benefit that gophish releases are compiled binaries with no dependencies. In a nutshell, this makes installation as simple as “download and run”!
Let’s take a look at some of the features that really set gophish apart and make it awesome.
Hosted On-Prem
There are many commercial offerings that provide phishing simulation/training. Unfortunately, these are SaaS solutions that require you to hand over your data to someone else.
Gophish is different in that it is meant to be hosted in-house. This keeps you data where it belongs - with you.
Download -> Run
For the few existing in-house solutions that exist, setup can be a huge pain (looking at you, Ruby gems). Your time is too valuable to be spent wrestling with dependencies trying to create the perfect setup that somehow magically allows the program to run.
Gophish was written in the Go programming language for this exact reason. To install gophish, all you have to do is download the zip file, extract the contents, and run the binary.
By doing this, you just started two webservers, populated a database, and setup a background worker to handle sending the mails. Now, your time can be spent making campaigns. Easy peasy.
API’s for Everything.
Gophish was built with automation first. This means that you can create scripts and clients that automate all the hard work for you. In addition to this, we keep up-to-date API docs that describe each API endpoint in detail.
