Infectious Media Generator
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Infectious Media Generator is a module within the Social-Engineer Toolkit that creates malicious payloads designed to spread via removable media such as USB drives and CDs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Infectious Media Generator canonical | 1 |
| Infectious Media Generator Attacks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8248894 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Infectious Media Generator Context triple: [Social-Engineer Toolkit, hasComponent, Infectious Media Generator]
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A.
The Virus
"The Virus" is a 1982 political thriller novel by British author Stanley Johnson that imagines a deadly global pandemic and the governmental response to it.
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B.
Melissa virus
The Melissa virus was a notorious mass-mailing macro virus from 1999 that spread via infected Microsoft Word documents and caused widespread disruption to email systems worldwide.
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C.
Dictator of Bacteria
Dictator of Bacteria is the fictional authoritarian ruler of the country of Bacteria in Charlie Chaplin’s satirical film "The Great Dictator," parodying real-world fascist leaders.
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D.
InvadR
InvadR is a wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg themed around Viking invaders and known for its family-friendly thrills and classic out-and-back layout.
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E.
Facehuggers
"Facehuggers" is a track from the original score of the science-fiction horror film *Aliens*, composed by James Horner.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Infectious Media Generator Target entity description: Infectious Media Generator is a module within the Social-Engineer Toolkit that creates malicious payloads designed to spread via removable media such as USB drives and CDs.
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A.
The Virus
"The Virus" is a 1982 political thriller novel by British author Stanley Johnson that imagines a deadly global pandemic and the governmental response to it.
-
B.
Melissa virus
The Melissa virus was a notorious mass-mailing macro virus from 1999 that spread via infected Microsoft Word documents and caused widespread disruption to email systems worldwide.
-
C.
Dictator of Bacteria
Dictator of Bacteria is the fictional authoritarian ruler of the country of Bacteria in Charlie Chaplin’s satirical film "The Great Dictator," parodying real-world fascist leaders.
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D.
InvadR
InvadR is a wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg themed around Viking invaders and known for its family-friendly thrills and classic out-and-back layout.
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E.
Facehuggers
"Facehuggers" is a track from the original score of the science-fiction horror film *Aliens*, composed by James Horner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
security tool component
ⓘ
software module ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IMG ⓘ |
| categoryInSET |
Infectious Media Generator Attacks
ⓘ
linked to:
Infectious Media Generator
|
| creator |
Dave Kennedy
ⓘ
linked to:
David Kennedy
|
| developer | TrustedSec ⓘ |
| distribution | bundled with Social-Engineer Toolkit source code ⓘ |
| distributionMethod |
autorun-based attacks
ⓘ
removable media infection ⓘ user-executed file attacks ⓘ |
| documentation | Social-Engineer Toolkit official documentation ⓘ |
| ethicalUse | authorized testing only ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | early versions of Social-Engineer Toolkit ⓘ |
| genre |
penetration testing tool
ⓘ
social engineering tool ⓘ |
| goal | simulate real-world USB/CD-based attacks ⓘ |
| includedIn | SET main menu ⓘ |
| interactionMode | menu-driven ⓘ |
| license | open source ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ |
| partOf | Social-Engineer Toolkit ⓘ |
| payloadType |
Metasploit payloads
ⓘ
Windows executable payloads ⓘ meterpreter payloads ⓘ reverse shell payloads ⓘ |
| platform | command-line interface ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | create malicious payloads for removable media ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Metasploit Framework
ⓘ
SET phishing modules ⓘ |
| requires |
Metasploit Framework (for some payloads)
ⓘ
linked to:
Metasploit Framework
Social-Engineer Toolkit installation ⓘ |
| risk | can be misused for illegal hacking ⓘ |
| securityDomain |
malware delivery
ⓘ
social engineering ⓘ |
| supportsMedium |
CDs
ⓘ
DVDs ⓘ USB drives ⓘ |
| threatModel | removable media propagation ⓘ |
| useCase |
penetration testing
ⓘ
red teaming ⓘ security assessment ⓘ |
| writtenFor |
offensive security professionals
ⓘ
penetration testers ⓘ security researchers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Infectious Media Generator Description of subject: Infectious Media Generator is a module within the Social-Engineer Toolkit that creates malicious payloads designed to spread via removable media such as USB drives and CDs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Infectious Media Generator