Helping AI Agent become an awesome practical hacker!
About the project
HackSkills is an organized knowledge base of installable skills that gives AI agents practical security knowledge across areas such as web security, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics. It is intended for bug bounty work, penetration testing, CTF competitions, and authorized security research. The catalogue entries are the project's own master, category, and topic skills.
JNDI injection playbook. Use when Java applications perform JNDI lookups with attacker-controlled names, especially via Log4j2, Spring, or any code path reaching InitialContext.lookup().
Linux kernel exploitation playbook. Use when exploiting kernel vulnerabilities (UAF, OOB, race condition, type confusion) for privilege escalation via commitcreds, modprobepath overwrite, or kernel ROP chains in CTF and real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes penetration testing playbook. Use when targeting Kubernetes clusters via API server, RBAC enumeration, service account abuse, etcd access, Kubelet API, pod escape, cloud-specific metadata, admission webhook bypass, and registry secrets.
Lattice-based cryptanalysis playbook. Use when attacking RSA via Coppersmith small roots, recovering DSA/ECDSA nonces from bias, solving knapsack problems, or applying LLL/BKZ reduction to cryptographic constructions.
Linux security mechanism bypass playbook. Use when facing restricted bash/rbash, read-only or noexec filesystems, AppArmor, SELinux, seccomp filters, or audit logging that must be evaded during post-exploitation.
LLM prompt injection playbook. Use when testing AI/LLM applications for direct injection, indirect injection via RAG/browsing, tool abuse, data exfiltration, MCP security risks, and defense bypass techniques.
Memory forensics playbook using Volatility 2/3. Use when analyzing memory dumps for malware analysis, credential extraction, process investigation, code injection detection, and incident response timeline reconstruction.
Mobile SSL pinning bypass playbook. Use when intercepting HTTPS traffic from mobile applications that implement certificate pinning, public key pinning, or SPKI hash pinning on Android and iOS, including React Native, Flutter, and Xamarin frameworks.
NoSQL injection playbook. Use when MongoDB-style operators, JSON query objects, flexible search filters, or backend query DSLs may allow data or logic abuse.
NTLM relay and authentication coercion playbook. Use when capturing and relaying NTLM authentication to escalate privileges via SMB, LDAP, HTTP, or MSSQL relay targets, combined with PetitPotam, PrinterBug, and other coercion methods.
OAuth and OIDC misconfiguration testing playbook. Use when reviewing redirect URI handling, state and nonce validation, PKCE, token audience, callback binding, and identity-provider trust flaws.
Open redirect playbook. Use when URL parameters, form actions, or JavaScript sinks control navigation targets and may redirect users to attacker-controlled destinations.
Advanced prototype pollution playbook — server-side RCE, client-side gadgets, filter bypasses, and detection techniques. Companion to ../prototype-pollution/ for basics. Use when you've confirmed pollution and need to escalate to code execution or find framework-specific gadgets.
Prototype pollution testing for JavaScript stacks. Use when user input is merged into objects (query parsers, JSON bodies, deep assign), when configuring libraries via untrusted keys, or when hunting RCE gadgets via polluted Object.prototype in Node or the browser.
Race condition and TOCTOU testing for web apps. Use when testing one-time operations, concurrent HTTP abuse, rate-limit bypass, Turbo Intruder gates, HTTP/2 single-packet attacks, and CWE-362-style synchronization gaps.
Reconnaissance and methodology playbook. Use when mapping assets, discovering endpoints, fingerprinting technology, and building a structured testing plan for a new target.
Entry P1 category router for reconnaissance and methodology. Use when mapping scope, discovering assets, fingerprinting technology, building endpoint inventory, and choosing the first high-value security testing path.
HTTP request smuggling and desynchronization testing. Use when front proxies, CDNs, or load balancers disagree with the origin on message framing (Content-Length vs Transfer-Encoding), on HTTP/2→HTTP/1 translation, or when exploring client-side desync via browser fetch pipelines.
Reverse shell techniques playbook. Use when establishing remote shells including language one-liners, encrypted shells (OpenSSL/socat/ncat), web shells, PTY upgrades, file transfer methods, PowerShell shells, and Windows payload generation.
RSA attack playbook for CTF and real-world cryptanalysis. Use when given RSA parameters (n, e, c) and need to recover plaintext by exploiting weak keys, small exponents, shared factors, or padding oracles.
At most 3 mods per repository are shown here, and a mod shipped inside a plugin is left to that plugin's page — the rest are on their repository pages: