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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

  • API: the /scans endpoint now returns why a scan didn’t start

    We added an info_text key to the /scans endpoint, so a scan that doesn’t start cleanly finally tells you why, straight from the API.

    This context was already visible inside the product but not exposed through the API. A customer asked for it, so now automated workflows can read the same explanation the UI shows, which makes failed scans easier to diagnose without opening the app.

    See the API reference

  • 80 new detections added to the Network Scanner

    The Network Scanner gained 80 new detections in June, prioritized by CVSS, EPSS, and CISA. The most notable this month:

    • Oracle PeopleSoft PSEMHUB, pre-auth Java deserialization RCE (CVE-2026-35273)

    • Palo Alto PAN-OS, authentication bypass (CVE-2026-0257)

    • Splunk Enterprise & Cloud, unrestricted file upload (CVE-2026-20253)

    • Joomla! JCE extension, unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2026-48907)

    • Ivanti Sentry, OS command injection (CVE-2026-10520)

    • LiteLLM, SQL injection (CVE-2026-42208) and command injection (CVE-2026-42271)

    • UniFi OS Server, command injection (CVE-2026-34910)

    • Check Point IKEv1 VPN, certificate authentication bypass (CVE-2026-50751)

    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. These are the issues attackers are already weighing, ranked so you can see what to prioritize first.

    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

  • Jira integration: credentials are checked before saving

    Jira integrations now test your credentials before saving them, so a typo gets caught up front instead of the first time you try to push a finding.

    A wrong token or a mistyped host used to sit quietly until a push failed mid-workflow. Now the integration briefly validates what you entered and tells you immediately if it won’t work, which cuts out a common source of broken integrations and support tickets.

  • Pentest-Tools.com is available on Azure - Microsoft Marketplace

    You can now subscribe to Pentest-Tools.com directly through your Azure account. 

    All plans — NetSec, WebNetSec, and Pentest Suite — are available as transactable subscriptions, which means you can apply your existing Azure balance toward your subscription.

    Authentication uses Microsoft Entra ID (SSO), so setup takes a few minutes. 

    The VPN Agent for internal network scanning is deployed as an Azure VM in your environment.

    For teams spending 10+ hours a week re-triaging alerts, now you can get confirmed findings with attached proof of exposure, directly through your Azure budget.

    Get started now.

  • XSS Exploiter: fetch-based payload delivery

    The XSS Exploiter now offers two payload delivery options: the classic script tag (default), or fetch plus eval.

    Some targets strip or block inline script tags. With fetch plus eval as an alternative delivery path, you can adapt to how the target actually behaves and confirm exploitability where a script tag alone would fall short.

    Try the XSS Exploiter

  • AI where it earns its place in the Website Scanner and URL Fuzzer

    We added AI to the Website Scanner and URL Fuzzer in the exact spots where deterministic logic used to give up. Three enhancements shipped:

    • AI-assisted authentication: when authentication fails to identify a login form the usual way, an AI fallback steps in to find it, so complex login flows stop cutting scans short.

    • Flowmapper: an AI agent explores your site like a real user, filling forms and following flows to reach endpoints the regular spider misses, then adds them to the scan.

    • ML Classifier: filters out fake “not found” pages that return a 200 status, so the admin console, sensitive file, and information disclosure checks report real findings instead of error pages in disguise. The URL Fuzzer runs the same classifier, so its results list only the files and directories that actually exist.

    Why it matters

    Fewer false positives and fewer missed endpoints, without manual tuning. The AI handles the judgment calls that used to break scans or bury real findings in noise.

    How to use

    Everything is on by default. You can disable any or all of it under My account, then AI.

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Read about all the changes in our changelog