performing-red-team-phishing-with-gophish

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name: performing-red-team-phishing-with-gophish description: >- Automate GoPhish phishing simulation campaigns using the Python gophish library. Creates email templates with tracking pixels, configures SMTP sending profiles, builds target groups from CSV, launches campaigns, and analyzes results including open rates, click rates, and credential submission statistics for security awareness assessment. domain: cybersecurity subdomain: security-operations tags: [performing, red, team, phishing] version: "1.0" author: mahipal license: Apache-2.0

Instructions

1. Install dependencies: pip install gophish requests
2. Deploy GoPhish server and obtain an API key from Settings.
3. Use the Python gophish library to automate campaign setup:
   • Create email templates with HTML body and tracking
   • Configure SMTP sending profiles
   • Import target groups from CSV
   • Create landing pages for credential capture
   • Launch and monitor campaigns
4. Analyze campaign results: opens, clicks, submitted data, reported.

# For authorized penetration testing and lab environments only
python scripts/agent.py --gophish-url https://localhost:3333 --api-key <key> --campaign-name "Q1 Awareness" --output phishing_report.json

Examples

Create Campaign via API

from gophish import Gophish
from gophish.models import Campaign, Template, Group, SMTP, Page
api = Gophish("api_key", host="https://localhost:3333", verify=False)
campaign = Campaign(name="Q1 Test", groups=[Group(name="Sales Team")],
    template=Template(name="IT Password Reset"), smtp=SMTP(name="Internal SMTP"),
    page=Page(name="Credential Page"))
api.campaigns.post(campaign)