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A social engineering attack can result in privilege escalation if properly executed.
True
False
The answer to the question as posed if False. A social engineering attack can only aid in the achieving of privilege escalation. The example cited below when the answer was listed as True points to too many additional required conditions. A social engineering attack can include sending a carefully crafted email with a malicious payload that could elevate an attackers priviliges on a compromised system. Using Metasploit, for example, if a meterpreter shell is already opened to a victim system, a payload embedded in an email can be sent. If the victim clicks on that email, then this attack has succeeded as indicated on the attackers machine.
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