Phishing Campaigns
Test your email defenses—human and technical.
Realistic email phishing simulations that test employee recognition of malicious messages, credential harvesting, and malware delivery attempts.
Overview
Email remains the primary attack vector for most organizations. Phishing Campaigns test how your employees respond to realistic malicious emails—from mass phishing to highly targeted spear-phishing. We measure not just who clicks, but who reports suspicious messages, giving you a complete picture of your human firewall effectiveness.
What We Test
Our phishing campaigns engagements cover these key areas:
Employee recognition of suspicious sender addresses and domains
Response to credential harvesting landing pages
Handling of malicious attachment simulations
Compliance with security awareness training
Suspicious email reporting behavior and response time
Resistance to urgency and authority-based manipulation
Our Approach
Our phishing campaigns mirror real-world attacks while maintaining ethical boundaries. We never install actual malware or harvest real credentials—but we test everything an attacker would.
OSINT & Reconnaissance
Research your organization, vendors, partners, and industry using the same open-source intelligence techniques real attackers employ. This informs realistic pretext development.
Pretext Development
Craft believable scenarios tailored to your organization—password resets, HR updates, vendor invoices, executive requests. Difficulty scales to your program maturity.
Infrastructure Setup
Configure look-alike domains, email servers, and landing pages that closely mimic legitimate services. Our infrastructure bypasses basic spam filters without triggering security alerts.
Campaign Execution
Deploy phishing emails with careful timing and volume controls. We monitor engagement in real-time and can pause if needed.
Metric Collection
Track email opens, link clicks, credential submissions, attachment opens, and—critically—report rates to your security team.
Educational Intervention
Users who interact with phishing see immediate educational content explaining the red flags they missed. This turns failure into a learning moment.
Results Analysis
Analyze patterns by department, role, time of day, and pretext type. Identify vulnerable populations and effective pretexts for targeted training.
Common Findings
These are issues we frequently discover during phishing campaigns engagements:
High click rates on urgency pretexts
Emails creating time pressure (account suspension, payment overdue) consistently achieve higher click rates than other pretexts.
Authority compliance
Emails appearing to come from executives or IT departments receive immediate compliance, often without verification.
Credential submission without verification
Employees enter credentials on look-alike pages without checking URLs or certificate warnings.
Low report rates
Even when employees recognize something suspicious, few report it to security. This delays response to real attacks.
Mobile vulnerability
Employees accessing email on mobile devices show higher click rates—truncated URLs and smaller screens hide red flags.
Common Questions
Do you actually steal credentials?
No. Our landing pages capture that a submission occurred but immediately discard any entered data. We never have access to real credentials, and employees see an educational page instead of a fake login.
How realistic are your phishing emails?
Very. We research your organization and craft pretexts using real vendor names, employee information (from LinkedIn), and current events. Our emails bypass most spam filters because they're well-crafted, not because we exploit technical vulnerabilities.
Can you test specific employees?
Yes. We can target specific departments, roles, or individuals. Common targets include finance (wire fraud scenarios), executives (whale phishing), and IT staff (higher-difficulty technical pretexts).
What about employees who click multiple times?
We track repeat offenders across campaigns. This identifies employees who need additional training or may benefit from one-on-one security coaching.
Other Social Engineering Options
Vishing (Voice Phishing)
Phone-based social engineering to test susceptibility to pretexting, credential disclosure, and unauthorized information sharing.
SMS Phishing
Text message-based attacks testing employee response to malicious links and credential requests via mobile devices.
Pretexting Scenarios
Complex social engineering scenarios combining multiple attack vectors with developed personas and backstories.
Physical Social Engineering
On-site attempts to gain unauthorized access through tailgating, impersonation, and manipulation of employees.
Ready to Strengthen Your Defenses?
Schedule a free consultation with our security experts to discuss your organization's needs.
Or call us directly at (445) 273-2873