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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

  • NEW: Import your AWS targets with ease

    There’s a new cloud integration in your Pentest-Tools.com toolkit!

    Now you can easily import AWS targets to your account with a fast setup. 

    We’re constantly expanding our integrations to improve your pentesting workflow experience. If you have any preferred tool we should consider next, let us know!

  • Continuous monitoring made (even) easier

    First we introduced the scan diff notification, so you can easily track changes in your targets’ security posture.

    Now, we’ve made it even easier for you to set a complete monitoring flow for our Network & Website Vulnerability Scanners, Port Scanner, and Subdomain Finder.

    You just select your target(s) and follow the Monitor setup process. It’s that simple! 

    You’ll automatically get email alerts whenever there’s an update.

  • Even more detectors and findings for your network scans

    Our Network Scanner is constantly expanding its reach so you get the most from your precision network scans. 

    Detect these freshly added high-impact RCEs:

    • CVE-2024-47177 (CVSSv3 9) — RCE in CUPS, a standards-based, open-source printing system.

    • CVE-2024-28986 (CVSSv3 9.8) — RCE in SolarWinds Web Help Desk that allows an attacker to run commands on the host machine

    Get more detailed findings for:

    • misconfigured DNS (because it's always DNS!) SPF, DNS DMARC, and DNS DKIM records

    • a DNS Zone Transfer vulnerability

    Also, know what step your scan is at with real-time updates in the Network Scanner’s scan logs.

  • Fresh detectors & findings for your website scans, too!

    Our team also updated the Website Scanner's capabilities this past month so you have a more comprehensive view of your targets.

    You can:

    • detect insecure deserialization in PHP applications with the scanner’s Active module

    • automatically detect GraphQL as we’ve integrated our API Vulnerability Scanner’s test methods for this language 

    We’ve also added more extensive findings to your scan results. 

    The Website Scanner now:

    • creates a new finding with all the API endpoints it detects during crawling

    • fuzzes for Open API specifications, creates a new finding with any identified results, and even adds it into the Specification Spider

    • adds exposures and exposed-panels Nuclei templates to the Interesting files finding so you detect even more publicly accessible pages that should’ve been hidden.

    Plus, to make the overall scan results easier to navigate, we’re highlighting the request/response lines for all detectors, both passive and active.

  • New proof of exploitation for this RCE with Sniper

    Our proprietary offensive tool, Sniper: Auto Exploiter, has a wide range of available exploits — but we want to make it even more up to date.


    Use Sniper to extract the proof of exploitation for a critical Palo Alto Networks Expedition RCE (CVE-2024-9463, CVSSv3 9.8) that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject an OS Command using special characters and fully compromise your server.

  • Fresh AWS findings for the Cloud Scanner

    With the Cloud Vulnerability Scanner, you can assess targets across multi-cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure from both within and the outside.

    There’s a fresh finding for it, too!

    Use our Cloud Scanner to detect the risk of data leaks because of a misconfiguration in your AWS bucket that gives a potential attacker public access to list your multipart uploads.

Read about all the changes in our changelog