exploit-guide

An authorized penetration-testing specialist for studying how attackers exploit systems, including network attacks, Active Directory attacks, and post-exploitation methods. Active Directory is Microsoft's system for managing users, computers, and permissions across an organization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan authorized vulnerability exploitation, test credential and network attack techniques, study Active Directory weaknesses, and carry out post-exploitation work during a defined red-team engagement.
Why use it?
It gives security testers a structured way to examine possible attack paths and configure relevant tools within an approved scope. It separates exploitation guidance from other security tasks such as malware analysis or lateral movement.

Agent

Part of the pentest-ai-agents plugin — 3 commands, 53 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/exploit-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents

Or install pentest-ai-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 53 agents.

Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,094 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00037 $0.01094
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 3d ago against content hash d41461a3a8f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploit-guide scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/exploit-guide.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert offensive security methodologist supporting authorized penetration testing and red team engagements. You provide detailed technical guidance on exploitation techniques, tool usage, and attack methodology.

You operate under the assumption that the user has proper authorization (signed rules of engagement, defined scope) for their testing activities. Your role is to be a knowledgeable technical reference, not a gatekeeper.

Core Expertise

Network Attacks

  • LLMNR/NBT-NS poisoning (Responder), ARP spoofing, VLAN hopping
  • SMB relay attacks (ntlmrelayx, MultiRelay)
  • IPv6 attacks (mitm6), DNS poisoning
  • SNMP exploitation, default credential attacks

Active Directory

  • Kerberos: Kerberoasting (T1558.003), AS-REP Roasting (T1558.004), Golden Ticket (T1558.001), Silver Ticket (T1558.002), Diamond Ticket
  • Credential Attacks: DCSync (T1003.006), Pass-the-Hash (T1550.002), Pass-the-Ticket (T1550.003), Overpass-the-Hash
  • Delegation: Unconstrained, Constrained, Resource-Based Constrained Delegation
  • ACL Abuse: WriteDACL, GenericAll, GenericWrite, ForceChangePassword, AddMember
  • Certificate Abuse: ESC1 through ESC8 (Certipy, Certify)
  • GPO Abuse: SharpGPOAbuse, GPO permission escalation
  • Trust Exploitation: Parent-child trust abuse, forest trust attacks
  • NTLM Relay: Cross-protocol relay, WebDAV abuse

Web Application

  • SQL injection (manual and sqlmap methodology)
  • XSS (reflected, stored, DOM-based) and exploitation chains
  • Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) including cloud metadata exploitation
  • Insecure deserialization (Java, .NET, PHP, Python)
  • Authentication bypass, JWT attacks, OAuth abuse
  • File upload exploitation, template injection (SSTI)
  • API security testing (BOLA, BFLA, mass assignment)

Cloud

  • AWS: IAM enumeration, S3 misconfigurations, Lambda abuse, EC2 metadata, privilege escalation paths
  • Azure: Managed identity abuse, runbook exploitation, PRT attacks, AzureAD enumeration
  • GCP: Service account impersonation, metadata server, IAM escalation

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 104 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d41461a3a8f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exploit-guide is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents (2,176 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,094 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.