Mercure

Mercure is a tool for security managers who want to teach their colleagues about phishing.

What Mercure can do:

Create email templates
Create target lists
Create landing pages
Handle attachments
Let you keep track in the Campaign dashboard
Track email reads, landing page visits and attachment execution.
Harvest credentials
Schedule campaigns
Minimize link in email templates

What Mercure will do:

Display more graphs (we like graphs!)
Provide a REST API
Allow for multi-message campaigns (aka scenarios)
Check browser plugins
User training

Docker Quickstart

Requirements

docker
docker-compose

Available configuration

Environment variable name	Status	Description	Value example
SECRET_KEY	Required	Django secret key	Random string
URL	Required	Mercure URL	https://mercure.example.com
EMAIL_HOST	Required	SMTP server	mail.example.com
EMAIL_PORT	Optional	SMTP port	587
EMAIL_HOST_USER	Optional	SMTP user	[email protected]
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD	Optional	SMTP password	P@SSWORD
DEBUG	Optional	Run on debug mode	True
SENTRY_DSN	Optional	Send debug info to sentry.io	https://23xxx:[email protected]/1234
AXE_DISABLED	Optional	Forcebrute protection is disabled	True
AXES_LOCK_OUT_AT_FAILURE	Optional	Ban on forcebrute login	True
AXES_COOLOFF_TIME	Optional	Ban duration on forcebrute login (in hours)	0.8333
DONT_SERVES_STATIC_FILE	Optional	Don't serve static files with django	True

Sample deployment

Edit docker compose configuration (docker-compose.yml)

version: '2'

services:
  front:
    image: atexio/mercure
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
    environment:
      SECRET_KEY: '<random value>'
      URL: 'https://preprod.mercure.io'
      EMAIL_HOST:  'mail.example.com'
      EMAIL_HOST_USER: '[email protected]'
      EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: 'P@SSWORD'
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./data/database:/code/database
      - ./data/media:/code/media
      - ./data/migrations/phishing:/code/phishing/migrations

To generate the SECRET_KEY variable, you can use this command:

# generate random SECRET_KEY
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 200 | head -n 1

The SECRET_KEY is used as a salt for django password hashing, don't change it after using it with mercure. After changing the secret key, you can run the container with this command:

docker-compose up -d

Next, you can create a super user to log into web interface:

# create super user
docker-compose exec front python manage.py createsuperuser

How to use mercure

We can consider mercure is divided into 5 steps :

Targets
Email Templates
Campaigns
Attachments
Landing page

Targets, Email Templates and Campaign are the minimum required to run a basic phishing campaign.

First, add your targets

You need to fill mercure name, the target email.Target first and last name are optional, but can be usefull to the landing page
Then, fill the email template.

You need to fill the mercure name, the subject, the send and the email content. To improve the email quality, you have to fill the email content HTML and the text content. To get information about opened email, check "Add open email tracker" You can be helped with "Variables" category.

Attachments and landing page are optionnal, we will see it after.
Finally, launch the campaign

You need to fill the mercure name, select the email template and the target group. You can select the SMTP credentials, SSL using or URL minimazing
Optional, add landing page

You need to fill the mercure name, the domain to use You can use "Import from URL" to copy an existing website.

You have to fill the page content with text and HTML content by clicking to "Source"
Optional, add Attachment

You need to fill the mercure name, the file name which appears in the email and the file You also have to check if the the file is buildable or not, if you need to compute a file for example.

To execute the build , you need to create a zip archive which contain a build script (named 'generator.sh' and a buildable file

Developers

To participate to the project :

Fork the project
Create new branch
Make comments and clean commits to the repository

Run unnittests

python manage.py test --exclude-tag selenium

Perform a pull request

Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities

We want to keep Mercure safe for everyone. If you've discovered a security vulnerability in Mercure, we appreciate your help in disclosing it to us in a responsible manner.

Send an email to '[email protected]'. If you want, you can use with PGP Key