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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: Vanta integration just got an upgrade!

    Keeping compliance evidence current shouldn’t be a manual job.

    That’s why now you can sync validated vulnerabilities and scheduled scan results directly into Vanta - automatically.

    Here’s what’s new:

    🎯 32 Vanta tests + 2 controls mapped - your findings now tie directly to relevant Vanta compliance checks.

    🎯 Daily sync at 05:00 UTC - stay continuously audit-ready without uploading reports manually.

    🎯 Smart filtering - manual findings are included, while informational or closed findings are excluded to keep data clean.

    🎯 Scheduled scans automatically synced to Compliance → Documents → Vulnerability Scan (up to 5 per recurrence).

    🎯 Available on all paid plans.

    👉 If you’ve used the integration before, please re-link your Vanta account to grant permissions for vulnerability syncing.

    See how it works in this short demo:

  • Launch internal scans directly in Azure

    Now you can securely access your private Azure infrastructure with our fresh internal network scanning (VPN agent) capability — so you can run internal vulnerability scans and pentests in minutes.

    Key benefits:

    🎯 Complete visibility – Extend your vulnerability assessments beyond the perimeter to cover internal servers, endpoints, and services in Azure.

    🎯 Secure by design – All scans are tunneled through the VPN Agent with no inbound firewall changes required.

    🎯 Unified view – Run the same Pentest-Tools.com tools for both external and internal testing, managed from a single interface.

    🎯 Fast deployment – Launch in minutes and start scanning immediately, without manual setup.

    💡 Ideal for: security teams covering hybrid environments and consultants managing client cloud networks.

  • Detect SonicWall - Improper access control now

    We keep enhancing the Network Scanner coverage so you can find critical issues before attackers do.

    The latest? This critical vulnerability in SonicWall SonicOS - CVE-2024-40766 (Unauthorized access) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain access as admin on the management console.

    PRO TIP: run targeted CVE scans to validate patching, identify remaining attack surface, and generate evidence for stakeholders.

  • 🎯 Prove exploitability faster = new Sniper modules

    We added 4 fresh, high-value exploit modules to Sniper: Auto-Exploiter, our proprietary offensive tool, so you can confirm risk quickly and produce stronger evidence for remediation:

    Fortinet FortiSIEM - CVE-2025-25256 (RCE)
    Sniper will give you proof of exploit for this critical RCE vulnerability in FortiSIEM deployments.

    Microsoft SharePoint - CVE-2025-53771 (Auth Bypass) & CVE-2025-49704 (RCE)
    Sniper now includes modules to test both authentication bypass and RCE paths in SharePoint so you can demonstrate end-to-end impact.

    FreePBX — CVE-2025-57819 (Auth Bypass → SQLi → RCE)
    A chained failure: Sniper can validate the authentication bypass that leads to SQL injection and potential RCE in affected FreePBX installs.

    OpenSSH — CVE-2018-15473 (Username enumeration)
    We added a module to automate proof of username enumeration on OpenSSH services (useful in pentests and red-team enumeration phases).

    Why this helps: consultants get fast, reproducible PoCs for client reports; internal teams get quick validation that prioritizes remediation of exploitable paths.


    Remember: if Sniper can exploit it, our Network Scanner can detect it!

  • NEW: Burp Suite extension for pentesters

    Manual reporting slowing you down? 

    Our new Burp Suite extension lets you send selected Audit Issues directly to your Pentest-Tools.com workspace- no copy-paste needed.

    It’s built for pentesters who want clean, consistent findings that are ready to report - faster.

    See how it works:

  • Take control of web app auth check and findings

    Fresh improvements to our proprietary Website Scanner let you handle authentication and findings with less hassle and more clarity:

    Record auth flows with Chrome – We’ve moved to Chrome Developer Tools to record and configure logins faster and with more reliability. Start here.

    Re-enabled Check Authentication  – Test your credentials upfront and see a screenshot of a successful login, so you know it works.

    Spot outdated server software clearly – The scanner creates a separate finding for each vulnerable technology instead of lumping them together, so you can act on what matters.


Read about all the changes in our changelog