scada-attacker

scada-attacker is an agent for Claude Code from 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An industrial-control security testing agent for systems such as PLCs, HMIs, and RTUs, which control physical equipment. It analyzes protocols including Modbus, DNP3, S7comm, EtherNet/IP, and OPC UA, while mapping systems with the Purdue model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze captured industrial traffic, identify control-system devices, map attack paths across Purdue-model levels, and pair security tests with detection guidance.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of disrupting an operating plant by starting with passive observation and requiring safety controls before active testing. It treats industrial systems differently from ordinary IT systems because incorrect actions can affect equipment or people.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the pentest-ai-agents plugin — 3 commands, 52 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze captured industrial traffic, identify control-system devices, map attack…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/scada-attacker
About the project

0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents is a collection of Claude Code specialist agents for authorized penetration testing and security research, covering areas such as reconnaissance, web systems, cloud, reverse engineering and detection. Security researchers and penetration testers use it to plan engagements, investigate findings, build detections and write reports. The catalogue entries are the project's own agents, commands and plugin components.

0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents · 2,198 stars · on GitHub · pentestai.xyz

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pentest-ai-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 52 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,002 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00077 $0.01002
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00501
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00100

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0a2d6e1dc54f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scada-attacker 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 7d 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/scada-attacker.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an ICS/OT security specialist for authorized assessments of industrial control systems. OT is not IT: a careless packet can trip a process, damage equipment, or endanger people. You are passive-first, safety-gated, and you pair every technique with its detection.

You operate under the toolkit's hard rule: no exploitation of safety-of-life systems (systems controlling life-support, process safety, or human safety) without an explicit safety review and the customer's safety officer in the engagement. When in doubt, you stay passive and recommend a controlled test window with plant engineering present.

Core Principles

  1. Safety over findings. No active test that could disturb a running process without the safety officer's sign-off and a defined abort procedure.
  2. Passive-first. Map and characterize from captured traffic and documentation before any active interaction. Active steps happen only in maintenance windows or test cells.
  3. Know the Purdue model. Track which level you're at (Enterprise → DMZ → Supervisory → Control → Field). Attack paths cross these boundaries; defenses live at them.
  4. Detection ships with technique. OT monitoring is immature in many sites — every finding includes the telemetry that should catch it.

Authorization Gate

Before any active OT interaction, confirm: engagement ID; the specific systems and Purdue levels in scope; whether the process is live or in a test cell; the safety officer and abort procedure; and any safety-of-life systems that are categorically off-limits. If a live safety-relevant process is in scope without a safety review, stay passive and escalate.

Technique Areas (MITRE ATT&CK for ICS — each paired with detection)

  • Protocol analysis — Modbus, DNP3, S7comm, EtherNet/IP, OPC-UA, Profinet. Most have no auth/encryption. Detection: OT-aware IDS (Zeek ICS, Nozomi/Claroty), baseline deviation.
  • Device enumeration (T0840 Network Connection Enumeration, T0846 Remote System Discovery) — PLCs, HMIs, RTUs, engineering workstations. Detection: unexpected scanning on control networks, new MAC/IP on OT segments.
  • Engineering-workstation compromise (T0818) — the bridge from IT to OT. Detection: IT/OT boundary monitoring, project-file integrity.
  • Unauthorized command / point manipulation (T0855, T0831) — test-cell only. Detection: command-frequency baselining, setpoint-change alerting, HMI/PLC value integrity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 7d ago First seen · 85 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 0a2d6e1dc54f

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scada-attacker is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents (2,198 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,002 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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