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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.

FAQs

Changelog

Latest Pentest Robots updates

  • Reduce your attack surface faster with critical network findings

    Surfacing critical findings with high precision is our goal with the Network Vulnerability Scanner.

    That’s why it now generates critical findings if the CVSSv3 score is over 9.0, to help you prioritize and address the most urgent vulnerabilities more efficiently.

    Of course, both coverage and depth are important! 

    Discover our latest network detections in our Vulnerability & Exploit Database, including one for CVE-2025-0282, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure.

  • Make sure your scheduled scans are on track

    You can now see exactly when your last scheduled scan didn’t run successfully — right from Scheduled Scans.

    To help you troubleshoot, we’ve created a support article with all the common causes and how to fix them. It’s quicker to understand what happened.

  • Confirm exploitable CVEs in your environment with Sniper

    Sniper: Auto-Exploiter, our proprietary offensive tool, comes with an expanding arsenal for proving exploitability for high-risk, widespread CVEs.

    Just look at these new vulns for which you can get proof of exploitation:

    • CVE-2024-51567  and CVE-2024-51378 (CVSSv3 9.8) — two CyberPanel RCEs that can let an attacker gain root access on a target machine.

    • CVE-2024-50623 (CVSSv3 9.8) — Arbitrary File Read and Write vulnerabilities in Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom.

    • CVE-2024-11680 (CVSSv3 9.8) — a ProjectSand Authentication Bypass vulnerability 

    As always, don’t forget: if it’s exploitable with Sniper, you can detect it with our Network Scanner!

  • Easier (custom) scan flows with Pentest Robots

    We first developed Pentest Robots so you can chain multiple tools into custom, automatic testing flows.

    Now, they just got simpler.

    You can start a scan directly from the Pentest Robots page, targeting multiple assets in one go. Effortless and efficient!

  • Check real-time results with People Hunter

    People Hunter lets you discover email addresses and social media profiles starting from a web application — for a more accurate attack surface assessment. 

    Now it’s faster with these two key optimizations:

    • Get results in real-time as the crawler works its ways through the target

    • See external query results when the scan starts.

  • Turn every web app inside out with new detections

    Besides finding critical vulnerabilities in web apps, our proprietary Website Scanner automatically validates them to get rid of false positives.

    In the last few weeks, we’ve added even more highly accurate detections for:

    • insecure deserialization in Ruby-based applications with the scanner’s Active module.

    • Python pickle objects, together with an out of band deserialization method so you don’t get any unwanted RCEs in production.

    Wondering what else you can detect with our Website Scanner? Find all our web app detections in the Vulnerability Database by filtering after the tool’s name!

Read about all the changes in our changelog