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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.

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Changelog

Latest Pentest Robots updates

  • Cut through the noise with ML-powered false positive filtering

    False positives don’t just waste time - they erode trust, delay remediation, and bury real issues under a pile of noise.

    That’s why we’ve built and integrated the Machine Learning classifier - a purpose-trained machine learning model - directly into our Website Scanner and URL Fuzzer.

    Instead of relying on brittle RegEx logic, the ML Classifier analyzes every HTML response during a scan and automatically sorts it into one of four smart categories:

    📌 HIT – High-value targets like login pages, exposed secrets, and backups

    📌 MISS – Confirmed dead ends, even when status codes are misleading

    📌 PARTIAL HIT – Ambiguous but interesting results (like firewall pages or redirects)

    📌 INCONCLUSIVE – Requires browser-based rendering for confirmation

    This means you can quickly focus on what matters, reduce triage time, and get clearer, cleaner results.

  • NEW: Pentest-Tools.com x Nucleus Security for smoother findings management

    You can now push vulnerability scan results from Pentest-Tools.com into your Nucleus workspace. Choose to automate based on conditions, or manually send only the Findings you need. No more custom scripts. No more manual data wrangling. One single source of truth for smoother findings management.

    ▶️ Watch this demo with our product manager, Dragos and:

    ✅ Control what gets sent and where
    ✅ Keep client data cleanly separated
    ✅ Centralize your vuln management in Nucleus

  • Deeper findings with Website Scanner upgrades

    We’ve made several key improvements to our proprietary Website Scanner to help you uncover more vulnerabilities - with greater precision:

    ✅ Light scans now include all passive detections so you get richer results with a quick scan
    ✅ GraphQL endpoint fuzzing now included to automatically identify GraphQL endpoints and test them as injection points
    ✅ Response Header Injection detection is still live in the active module since last month, but too useful not to mention again!

  • Exploit the Craft CMS RCE with Sniper

    Sniper: Auto-Exploiter, our proprietary offensive solution, now validates exploitability for CVE-2024-56145 (CVSSv3 9.8), a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Craft CMS.

    Just like the rest of our exploit modules, this lets you:

    • Get proof of exploitation within minutes and skip manual PoC building

    • Strengthen your reports with screenshots and payload evidence

    As always, if Sniper can exploit it, our Network Scanner can detect it.

  • Identify mass assignment vulns with API scans

    Our API Scanner now includes detection for mass assignment vulnerabilities, a risk often overlooked but highly impactful - especially in misconfigured APIs.

    Plus, it’s included in both standalone API scans and integrated web scans with our Website Scanner, giving you deeper insight with no extra setup.

  • Detect the most commonly exposed ports faster

    We’ve fine-tuned the port lists across our scanners to focus on the most relevant and commonly exposed ports - based on the latest exposure patterns in real-world environments.

    This ensures you’re scanning what matters, not wasting time on ports that don’t.

Read about all the changes in our changelog