aws-penetration-testing

aws-penetration-testing is a skill for Claude Code from 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,687 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of aws-penetration-testing, MIT.

A guide to authorized penetration testing of AWS environments. Penetration testing is a controlled security assessment that looks for ways an attacker could break into a system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for approved security assessments covering IAM permissions, metadata-service attacks, S3 exposure, Lambda code access, and persistence risks.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to test cloud defenses while requiring written permission and a defined target and scope.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for approved security assessments covering IAM permissions, metadata-service attacks, S3 exposure, Lambda code access, and persistence risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26bb/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp/aws-penetration-testing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp --skill aws-penetration-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,687 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 4 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00046 $0.02687
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01344
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00269

Measured 9d ago against content hash 739ae2239913, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

aws-penetration-testing scanned grade C with 4 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 9d 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.

Harvests environment variablesmediumData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

# 3. Extract credentials

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo mkdir /mnt/stolen

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

TOKEN=$(curl -X PUT -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token-ttl-seconds: 21600" \
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to aws-penetration-testing — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md · 426 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

⚠️ AUTHORIZED USE ONLY This skill is for educational purposes or authorized security assessments only. You must have explicit, written permission from the system owner before using this tool. Misuse of this tool is illegal and strictly prohibited.

Mandatory confirmation gate Before running any command that probes, exploits, changes, persists on, extracts data from, or attempts credential access against a target:

  1. Ask the user to state the exact target URL, IP, account, or resource.
  2. Ask the user to confirm written authorization and the permitted scope.
  3. Show the exact command(s) and explain their expected effect.
  4. Wait for explicit confirmation in the current conversation.

Without that confirmation, remain read-only and provide defensive guidance only. Prefer a sandbox, disposable VM, or controlled lab.

AUTHORIZED USE ONLY: Use this skill only for authorized security assessments, defensive validation, or controlled educational environments.

AWS Penetration Testing

Purpose

Provide comprehensive techniques for penetration testing AWS cloud environments. Covers IAM enumeration, privilege escalation, SSRF to metadata endpoint, S3 bucket exploitation, Lambda code extraction, and persistence techniques for red team operations.

Inputs/Prerequisites

  • AWS CLI configured with credentials
  • Valid AWS credentials (even low-privilege)
  • Understanding of AWS IAM model
  • Python 3, boto3 library
  • Tools: Pacu, Prowler, ScoutSuite, SkyArk

Outputs/Deliverables

  • IAM privilege escalation paths
  • Extracted credentials and secrets
  • Compromised EC2/Lambda/S3 resources
  • Persistence mechanisms
  • Security audit findings

Essential Tools

Tool Purpose Installation
Pacu AWS exploitation framework git clone https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu
SkyArk Shadow Admin discovery Import-Module .\SkyArk.ps1
Prowler Security auditing pip install prowler
ScoutSuite Multi-cloud auditing pip install scoutsuite
enumerate-iam Permission enumeration git clone https://github.com/andresriancho/enumerate-iam
Principal Mapper IAM analysis pip install principalmapper

Read the full file on GitHub · 426 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 426 lines · 46 tokens per session scan C 739ae2239913

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-penetration-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,687 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 4 findings (harvests environment variables, asks for root, cloud metadata endpoint). It is 100% identical to aws-penetration-testing, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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