Use cases

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for penetration testing

Leverage RPA to speed up your pentests by offloading80% of manual work to pentest robots

  • Specialized RPA built by pentesters

  • Fully controllable testing logic

  • Workflow continuity for chained scans

  • Drag & drop visual builder for pentest robots

  • Shared templates for consistency across engagements

  • Secure, fully managed RPA environment

Boost productivity & increase your accuracy with RPA-fueled pentesting

Offload tedious work to our pentest robots and make your entire workflow more efficient

Recon

  • Pre-built Domain Recon and Treasure Hunter pentest robots

  • Chain multiple info gathering tools

  • Automatically run follow-up scans for each web port discovered

  • Data aggregated in the Attack Surface

Vulnerability detection

  • Dedicated, editable pentest robots

  • Scan scheduling & scan completion alerts - no manual check-in required

  • Automated successive scans based on conditions that match your testing stages

  • No waiting times between scans

Vuln analysis & exploitation

  • Ready-to-use exploitation pentest robot (e.g. Auto HTTP Login Bruteforcer)

  • Rich customization options when building your own pentest robots

  • Visual editor with drag & drop option to chain tools and logic blocks that replicate your pentesting workflow

What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?

Robotic Process Automation is the tech we built into Pentest-Tools.com so you can easily create, customize, and use pentest robots that replicate your repetitive actions and workflows.

Automate penetration testing grunt work with Pentest Robots

Robotic Process Automation is not meant to replace humans. It’s meant to perform clearly defined tasks for them. RPA frees pentesters from tedious manual work that involves repetition and steps that are linked together (e.g. starting one scan after another).

We know you’re wondering and no, RPA is not AI. This type of automation is closer to Scratch. It has obvious limitations but this is actually what makes it a goldmine for security teams.

How does RPA for penetration testing work?

RPA makes it very easy to automatically run a sequence of actions you define in the form of pentest robots.

With these, you can reliably chain and automate tasks such as subdomain discovery, port scanning, fingerprinting, and a lot more.

Use the visual editor to combine tool blocks and logic blocks, tweaking settings for each scanner as you need.

Once deployed, pentest robots interact with target systems, scan them, capture data, and trigger responses based on the conditions you set. The resulting findings instantly populate the Attack Surface view and your pentest reports.

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How is RPA different from other automation tools in pentesting?

Penetration testing tools have come a long way and many boast automation capabilities. Some even want to replace humans – a cliché we fiercely oppose.

The problem is most automation solutions out there tend to be quite inflexible and noisy. Their lack of customization options gives pentesters the chills.

Controlled testing is what you need and we know that. With RPA, we deliver a much more targeted approach to pentest automation.

Pentest robots are replicable testing flows with clearly defined rules that you set. You control their behavior from start to finish which helps avoid the risk of accidental damage.

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Why should I use RPA in my pentest engagements?

Whether you’re an independent pentester or part of a security team, pentest robots help you apply your knowledge and expertise at scale.

By automating time-intensive, lower-value tasks you make time for more impactful, strategic work that helps you over-deliver and impress.

Personal gains

  • Major time-savings

  • Productivity boost

  • More time for creative, rewarding work

  • Stronger focus on complex vulns

  • Alignment with your team

  • Less draining manual work

Business wins

  • Fast ROI

  • Works for senior and junior pentesters

  • Higher job satisfaction

  • Process consistency across teams

  • Scalability at every business stage

  • Compliance-ready audit trail

How do I start using RPA for penetration testing?

If you’re ready to automate as much as 80% of your pentesting tasks so you can focus your expertise on the 20% that makes all the difference, here’s how to get started.

  1. 1

    Choose a plan that includes access to our pentest robots.

  2. 2

    In your dashboard, go to Targets and choose Scan with Robot, selecting the pre-built robot that suits your needs.

  3. 3

    Sit back and watch it do your work for you, as Findings accumulate in your dashboard and your Attack Surface view starts to develop.

  4. 4

    Once you get familiar with them, you can build your own pentest robots under Automation/Robots.

Not sure if RPA for pentesting is for you?

Watch this walkthrough by our founder, Adrian Furtuna, from our launch at Black Hat Europe 2020:

Pentest Robots - Automate your pentesting flows and remove 80% of manual work

What are the limitations of RPA for penetration testing?

RPA is not the solution to all your problems. There’s a limit to how much RPA-based pentest robots can mimic human actions – and that’s a good thing.

This gives you control and keeps automated actions contained to the testing stages and tasks you choose.

Full transparency: for the moment, you can use a selection of tools from the platform to build pentest robots - Find Subdomains, URL Fuzzer, Website Recon, Website Scanner, Port Scanner, Password Auditor.

In future platform updates we’ll make other tools and scanners on Pentest-Tools.com available in the Robot Design Studio, so keep an eye on them.

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Changelog

Latest Pentest Robots updates

  • 4 new CVEs to check out with your Pentest-Tools.com toolkit!

    Detect these 2 high-risk CVEs with our powerful Network Vulnerability Scanner:

    • CVE-2024-5932 (CVSSv3 10) - this GiveWP Donation Plugin RCE can allow unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object, gain full access, and compromise your server.

    • CVE-2023-43770 (CVSSv3 6.1) - this RoundCube Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability can lead to data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected application.

    Get proof of exploitation for these 2 critical CVEs with our proprietary offensive tool, Sniper - Auto-Exploiter:

    • CVE-2024-29973 (CVSSv3 9.8) - RCE in Zyxel. Validate that an unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the device by exploiting improperly sanitized inputs in the "setCookie" endpoint.

    • CVE-2024-38856 (CVSSv3 9.8) - RCE in Apache OFBiz. Validate this RCE through an especially crafted HTTP POST request that allows an attacker to fully compromise your server. 

  • Monitor critical changes with scan diff notifications

    Scan diff for your scan results is finally here! We know you’ve been asking for it, so we’ve listened and delivered. 

    Available for port scanning, vulnerabilities, and subdomains, scan diff highlights new and updated findings compared to your previous scan on the same target within a set workspace. 

    • Use it for continuous monitoring of all targets in your workspace 

    • Get automatic notifications when anything changes, on your preferred channel (email, Slack, Teams, Discord, etc.)

    • Create an automatic scan baseline and use scheduled scans for easier tracking

  • Faster & better detection with our Website Scanner!

    We've increased the URL crawling speed by 30%, making the Website Scanner more efficient from start to finish. 

    Our proprietary web app scanner now uses parallelization when detecting cloud hosted URLs. Expect faster discovery, quicker scan completion, and more timely results

    We’ve also improved the tool’s passive detection method with: 

    • Disclosure of OS paths in the HTTP response

    • Detection for session tokens in the request URLs

  • Exploit selected CVEs with Sniper

    We're giving you even more control over our most powerful offensive security tool - Sniper Auto-Exploiter.

    You can now automatically get proof of exploitation for specific CVEs.

    Plus, our team developed new custom exploits for these critical CVEs:

    • CVE-2024-36401 (CVSSv3 9.8) - this GeoServer RCE can fully compromise your server and allow unauthenticated attackers to pivot to your internal network. 

    • CVE-2024-28995 (CVSSv3 7.5) - prove this Arbitrary File Read vulnerability found in SolarWinds Serv-U is exploitable.

    Don’t forget that, whenever we add new exploits in Sniper, it means our Network Scanner can also detect those CVEs for you.

    Want to see it in action? Here’s a practical demo on how Sniper works:

  • Tiny Network Scanner tweaks that protect your focus

    This month, we’ve fine-tuned the Network Vulnerability Scanner to handle details more efficiently, so you don’t lose focus with too much manual work:

    • Get end-of-life findings for Nmap-detected products and operating systems.

    • The “How to reproduce section” got tidier as we’ve moved the curl command from Nuclei here. 

  • Even more effective bruteforcing with our Password Auditor

    Find weak credentials with the Password Auditor and also get these effective operational improvements:

    • Informational findings for HTTP server-side errors now have screenshots to make them easier to check.

    • We’ve introduced scan logs for this tool, so you always know what scan is active at any given time.