aws-penetration-testing

aws-penetration-testing is a skill for Claude Code from satnamrsm/https-github.com-sickn33-antigravity-awesome-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,489 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of aws-penetration-testing, MIT.

A collection of techniques and tools for authorised security testing of AWS accounts and cloud resources. Penetration testing simulates attacks to find weaknesses before real attackers do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for approved AWS security assessments covering IAM permissions, S3, EC2, Lambda, metadata services, and cloud persistence risks.
Why use it?
It helps security teams examine permissions, exposed resources, privilege escalation paths, and possible ways an attacker could gain access.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the antigravity-awesome-skills plugin — 198 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for approved AWS security assessments covering IAM permissions, S3, EC2, Lambda, metadata services, and cloud persistence risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/satnamrsm/https-github.com-sickn33-antigravity-awesome-skills/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 satnamrsm/https-github.com-sickn33-antigravity-awesome-skills --skill aws-penetration-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/satnamrsm/https-github.com-sickn33-antigravity-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install antigravity-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 198 skills.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,489 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 88% 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 $0.00048 $0.02489
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01244
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00249

Measured 7d ago against content hash 72ec7cda68e7, 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 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.

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

88% identical to aws-penetration-testing — 20 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.

skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md · 410 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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

Core Workflow

Step 1: Initial Enumeration

Identify the compromised identity and permissions:

# Check current identity
aws sts get-caller-identity

# Configure profile
aws configure --profile compromised

# List access keys
aws iam list-access-keys

# Enumerate permissions
./enumerate-iam.py --access-key AKIA... --secret-key StF0q...

Step 2: IAM Enumeration

# List all users
aws iam list-users

# List groups for user
aws iam list-groups-for-user --user-name TARGET_USER

# List attached policies
aws iam list-attached-user-policies --user-name TARGET_USER

# List inline policies
aws iam list-user-policies --user-name TARGET_USER

# Get policy details
aws iam get-policy --policy-arn POLICY_ARN
aws iam get-policy-version --policy-arn POLICY_ARN --version-id v1

# List roles
aws iam list-roles
aws iam list-attached-role-policies --role-name ROLE_NAME

Read the full file on GitHub · 410 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. 7d ago First seen · 410 lines · 48 tokens per session scan C 72ec7cda68e7

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aws-penetration-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository satnamrsm/https-github.com-sickn33-antigravity-awesome-skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,489 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 88% identical to aws-penetration-testing, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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