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Fingerprint-Driven Automation: Coupling Reconnaissance with POC Verification
Hongping Wang, Xiaoqi Li
The paper presents a highly automated tool that combines fingerprint‑driven network reconnaissance with automatic vulnerability detection and verification to improve efficiency and…
AgentSnare: Learning to Delay, Divert, and Defuse Autonomous Penetration Agents
Ruoyu Wang, Heng Zhao, Renjie Wu +4
The paper presents AgentSnare, a system that dynamically creates deceptive decoy environments to mislead and delay autonomous penetration testing agents powered by large language m…
Rethinking Penetration Testing for AI-Enabled Systems: From Resource Compromise to Behavioral Objective Violation
Mohammad Allahbakhsh, Mohammad Hassan Bahari, Moslem Attar-Raouf
The paper proposes a new way to conduct penetration testing for AI-enabled systems by focusing on inducing undesirable AI-driven behavior that violates operational objectives, rath…
From Controlled to the Wild: Evaluation of Pentesting Agents for the Real-World
Pedro Conde, Henrique Branquinho, Valerio Mazzone +3
The paper introduces a practical evaluation protocol for AI-driven penetration testing agents that emphasizes validated vulnerability discovery in complex, realistic targets, and p…
Baselines Before Architecture: Evaluating Coding Agents for Autonomous Penetration Testing
Ananda Dhakal, Krish Neupane, Aarjan Chaudhary
The paper conducts a controlled evaluation of plain coding agents versus specialized penetration‑testing architectures on the XBOW benchmark, showing that baseline agents already s…