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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

To build your first pentest robot, log into your Pentest-Tools.com account and go to the Robot Design Studio.

Combine tool blocks with logic blocks to design the visual penetration testing flow that fits your specific needs.

To scan with your pentest robot(s), go to Targets, select the one(s) you want to Scan with Robot, choose the pentest robot you want to use, and click on Start Scan. Yes, it’s that easy!

For more details, check out the dedicated article in our Support Center.

Changelog

Latest Pentest Robots updates

  • We’re launching 6 new robots to replace the default ones

    On November 3, 2026, we’re launching 6 new robots and replacing the 12 current ones, so there’s less to sort through and a clearer path from recon to proof.

    • Recon: Domain Recon Robot, Host Recon Robot, and App Recon Robot

    • Scan: Host Scan Robot and App Scan Robot

    • Scan and exploit: Host Scan and Exploit Robot



    The robots you created and your scan history stay exactly as they are. Scheduled scans on the old default robots keep running, but the old defaults leave the robot list and won’t get any more changes, so we recommend switching to the new robots once they launch.



    Replacement recommendations:

    • Host Scan Robot replaces Website Scanner - All Ports (scanning the top 3845 TCP ports instead of all 65,535), Website Scanner - Top 1000 Ports, The HTTP Lockpicker, Network Scanner - Full (domain), Network Scanner - Critical CVEs (domain), and Log4Shell Detector (CVE-2021-44228).

    • App Scan Robot replaces Deep WordPress Scan, Auto HTTP Login Bruteforcer, and Treasure Hunter (host).

    • Domain Recon Robot replaces Domain Recon and All Domains Recon.



    No direct replacement - Treasure Hunter (domain): to keep your scanned assets under your control, no new robot fuzzes URLs across all the subdomains of a domain. From November 3, the App Scan Robot or App Recon Robot runs the URL Fuzzer on one web app URL at a time.



    Good to know:

    • Subdomains: the new robots work on one target at a time, so they don’t scan every subdomain they discover. Each subdomain counts as its own scanned asset, so this gives you better control over which ones to scan and helps you avoid using more scanned assets than you intended. To cover subdomains, run Domain Recon Robot first, then scan the hostnames it finds.

    • Plans: which robots you see depends on your plan. For example, you see the Host Scan Robot only if your plan includes deep web scanning, because the robot runs a deep Website Scanner pass.

  • 99 new detections added to the Network Scanner

    The Network Scanner gained 99 new detections in September. As always, if Sniper can exploit it, the Network Scanner can detect it.

    Three examples, each with a CVSS v3 score of 10.0:

    • unauthenticated arbitrary file read in GitLab CE/EE (CVE-2026-85706)

    • remote code execution in Ruby on Rails Active Storage (CVE-2026-66066)

    • pre-authentication remote code execution in N-able N-central (CVE-2026-86218)

    Why it matters

    Coverage that lands within days of disclosure is the difference between finding an exposure yourself and reading about it in an incident report.

    How to use

    Run a scan to check your targets, then put the high-value ones on scheduled monitoring so new coverage applies automatically as it ships.

    Scan your targets

  • Password Auditor now tests for blank or missing credentials

    The Password Auditor now tests for blank or missing credentials across HTTP Basic auth and web login forms. 

    Why it matters

    It helps you catch default or unauthenticated endpoints before they become an entry point.

    How to use

    Run a Password Auditor scan against your targets.

    Run a Password Auditor scan

  • ICMP Ping and Whois Lookup remain available as free tools on our website

    From October 6, 2026, ICMP Ping and Whois Lookup won't be available in the product interface anymore. 

    Both remain available as free tools on our website at ICMP Ping and Whois Lookup. 

    Your past scans and reports stay in your account.

  • We're consolidating tools for an easier setup

    From October 20, 2026, the WAF Detector, the SSL/TLS Scanner, and the Kubernetes Scanner won't be available as standalone tools in the product interface anymore.

    The WAF Detector is folding into Website Recon, so you can run the same checks without the setup spread. We'll automatically migrate scheduled WAF Detector scans to Website Recon by November 17, 2026.

    SSL/TLS Scanner and Kubernetes Scanner are folding into the Network Scanner, so the same checks run in fewer places. We'll automatically migrate the scheduled scans to the Network Scanner by November 17, 2026.

  • We're retiring three tools

    From October 6, 2026, the SharePoint Scanner, the Joomla Scanner, and the Subdomain Takeover won't be available as standalone tools in the product interface anymore. 

    If you're currently using these tools, we suggest replacing them with the Network Scanner for both on-demand and scheduled scans.

    Scheduled and API-triggered scans keep running until November 17, 2026. 

    Your past scans and reports stay in your account.

    Run a network scan →

Read about all the changes in our changelog