PTHelper: An open source tool to support the Penetration Testing process

TL;DR

PTHelper is an open-source, modular tool that automates and supports penetration testing using advanced tools and AI, aiming to streamline the security assessment process for organizations.

Contribution

It introduces a practical, upgradable tool that integrates state-of-the-art pentesting tools and AI to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in security assessments.

Findings

Automates key pentesting tasks

Utilizes AI for vulnerability detection

Designed for easy community upgrades

Abstract

Offensive security is one of the state of the art measures to protect enterprises and organizations. Penetration testing, broadly called pentesting, is a branch of offensive security designed to find, rate and exploit these vulnerabilities, in order to assess the security posture of an organization. This process is often time-consuming and the quantity of information that pentesters need to manage might also be difficult to handle. This project takes a practical approach to solve the automation of pentesting and proposes a usable tool, called PTHelper. This open-source tool has been designed in a modular way to be easily upgradable by the pentesting community, and uses state of the art tools and artificial intelligence to achieve its objective.