I remember when I first got to this forum, I saw multiple scrapebox treaths, it was basically a spam machine, but since I didn't took IM serious till this last semester, I never paid to much attention about the software functionality, also since google has chenged alot, I was wondering what could be the use of scapebox?
The list of what it can't be used for is probably shorter and most people that use it don't use it to build links. Less then 1% of the functionality of Scrapebox is building links yet too many people think "Scrapebox is a link building program". Its just what some people used it for because it worked well.
If you want the long answer to your question, and by long I mean over 2 months worth of emails 1-2 times per week teaching you what Scrapebox can do (I wrote them all myself and recorded all the videos myself) then you can signup in my signature.
If you look at the site for 5 mins you can see you can do everything from check page authority, to checking alive status, broken links, if a site is mobile ready, check anchor text,
keyword research
scraping google and 20+ other search engines
build in your own search engines to scrape data from
Scrape yellow pages and yell with the plugin
scrape articles, spin them translate them post them to wordpress and more with the plugin
check your rank in google, yahoo and bing, with the plugin
check outbound links
crawl thru a site and scrape it for emails
post to contact forms
scrape images from any site
scrape image from google
scrape youtube data and then download youtube videos
check for unregistered domains
find expired domains
check redirect urls and get data
get social signal counts, likes etc...
scrape sitemaps
create rss feeds
check for vanity/anchor rich or expired domains on web 2.0 sites
build in your own web 2.0 sites to check
mass shorten urls
check urls for malware
for heavens sake you can even play chess in Scrapebox! lol
Oh and if you feel like it build links on blogs, image platforms, guesbooks and more.
So that is sort of a "scratch the surface of what Scrapebox" can do.
If you just read scrapebox.com you can see all this and more readily and you can watch 1 of over 100 videos recorded by yours truly here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/looplinescrapebox/videos
So with over 100 videos and over 24 hours of video you should be able to get started with what you can do with Scrapebox but even then the applications are limitless.
You can google for whitehat uses, for which there are many and great posts from people like Neil Patel at Quick Sprout
https://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-link-building-chapter-8/
Plus much much much more.
I use it daily, its running on about a dozen machines/servers I have.