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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

  • Much easier tracking for pentest robot scan results

    Our pentest robots are becoming increasingly popular for handling large-scale vulnerability assessments. And now, they're even easier to use, especially for those of you who need customized automation.

    We’ve made it simpler to keep track of pentest robots scans: instead of listing all scans individually, the Scans section now displays one entry per pentest robot, making it easier to map your actions to what you see in our product.

    How it works:

    ✅ Each pentest robot now has a single log entry, reducing clutter

    ✅ You can access all scan resulting from a single pentest robot accessed within its own log block

    ✅ Improved clarity helps you focus on results - not on tracking individual scans.

  • Get proof for new high-risk RCEs in these CMSs

    Need to prove exploitability for highly targeted CVEs beyond a shadow of a doubt? 

    Our proprietary offensive tool, Sniper: Auto-Exploiter, is now even more powerful, helping you get proof of exploitation for critical vulnerabilities in popular content management systems:

    • CVE-2024-10924 (CVSSv3 9.8) - an RCE in the Really Simple Security WordPress plugin that can let an attacker leverage an authentication bypass and compromise your server.

    • CVE-2023-41892 (CVSSv3 9.8) - a Craft CMS Unauthenticated RCE classified as a high-impact, low-complexity attack vector.  

    And remember: if it’s exploitable with Sniper, it’s a confirmed risk you can also detect with our Network Vulnerability Scanner. 

  • Brute-force battle: we tested Hydra vs our Password Auditor against 26 web apps!

    We ran Hydra, a pentester’s favourite, and our proprietary Password Auditor against 26 web applications — including Microsoft Exchange, WordPress, and Joomla.

    The comparison criteria? Their ability to:

    • Identify login credentials, endpoints and parameters

    • Recognize error messages & protection mechanisms

    • Detect defensive measures like IP blacklisting, CAPTCHA, account lockout, and rate limiting.

    The results make choosing a tool for password auditing much easier: Hydra might be a classic, but our Password Auditor is the real match for modern security defenses.

    Also included in this benchmark: a step-by-step guide to bruteforcing all 26 tested apps, from WordPress to Exchange. 

  • Analyze findings faster with even more refreshed results

    The UI facelift continues! 

    We’ve upgraded the look and feel of scan results for another important part of your security toolbox: 

    📌 WAF Scanner

    📌 SQLi Exploiter

    📌 People Hunter

    📌 Subdomain Takeover

    📌 Joomla Scanner

    📌 ICMP Ping

    📌 Whois Lookup

    This means clearer findings and a better organization across the board.

  • Zero in on critical web app flaws – lightning fast

    To help you get eyes on the most burning security issues as fast as possible, we’ve updated the Website Scanner and the API Scanner to classify the most severe risks as Critical if their CVSSv3 score is over 9.0. 

    This means:

    📌 More time to realistically assess business impact

    📌 More accurate risk and mitigation prioritization.

    Plus, this month comes with even more improvements in our Website Scanner:

    • You can now test authentication with headers with the Authentication functionality, before starting a new scan for a better setup configuration.

    • The Find Login Interfaces passive test now detects Basic HTTP/NTLM Authentication — helping you map authentication entry points with greater accuracy.

  • Reduce your attack surface faster with critical network findings

    Surfacing critical findings with high precision is our goal with the Network Vulnerability Scanner.

    That’s why it now generates critical findings if the CVSSv3 score is over 9.0, to help you prioritize and address the most urgent vulnerabilities more efficiently.

    Of course, both coverage and depth are important! 

    Discover our latest network detections in our Vulnerability & Exploit Database, including one for CVE-2025-0282, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure.

Read about all the changes in our changelog