Results for “vulnerability-hunting”

Hunt for web shell deployments on internet-facing servers by analyzing file creation in web directories, suspicious process spawning from web servers, and anomalous HTTP patterns.

Proactively hunt for adversary abuse of legitimate system binaries (LOLBins) to execute malicious payloads while evading detection.

Hunt for spearphishing campaign indicators across email logs, endpoint telemetry, and network data to detect targeted email attacks.

Hunt for adversary abuse of Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBins) by analyzing endpoint process creation logs for suspicious execution patterns of legitimate Windows system binaries used for malicious purposes.

Discover and exploit broken link hijacking vulnerabilities by identifying references to expired domains, decommissioned cloud resources, and dead external services that can be claimed by an attacker.

Audits GitHub Actions workflows for exploitable vulnerabilities with concrete attack scenarios.

Detects fail-open insecure defaults (hardcoded secrets, weak auth, permissive security) that allow apps to run insecurely in production. Use when auditing security, reviewing config management, or analyzing environment variable handling.

Conducts systematic security code reviews to identify exploitable vulnerabilities, reporting only high-confidence findings after researching the codebase.

Proactively hunts for Advanced Persistent Threat activity using hypothesis-driven searches across endpoint telemetry, network logs, and memory artifacts.

Automatically hunt for high-impact OSS contribution opportunities in trending repositories.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "follow red team methodology", "perform bug bounty hunting", "automate reconnaissance", "hunt for XSS vulnerabilities", "enumerate subdomains", or needs security researcher techniques and tool configurations from top bug bounty hunters.

Detect and analyze heap spray attacks in memory dumps using Volatility3 plugins to identify NOP sled patterns, shellcode landing zones, and suspicious large allocations in process virtual address space.

Hunt for supply chain compromise indicators including trojanized software updates, compromised dependencies, unauthorized code modifications, and tampered build artifacts.

Detects credential stuffing attacks by analyzing authentication logs for login velocity anomalies, ASN diversity, password spray patterns, and geographic distribution of failed logins using statistical analysis on Splunk or raw log data.

Automatically hunt for high-impact OSS contribution opportunities in trending repositories.

Audits trending open-source repos for exploitable vulnerabilities using Semgrep, TruffleHog, osv-scanner, and Slither, then routes findings to responsible disclosure channels (PVR for code flaws, public PRs for dependency CVEs).

Transform threat intelligence and attack patterns into testable hunting hypotheses for proactive threat detection.

Security vulnerability assessment identifying OWASP risks, injection vectors, authentication issues, and data exposure with severity classification.

Tests and exploits deep link vulnerabilities in Android and iOS mobile applications to identify unauthorized access, data injection, intent hijacking, and redirect manipulation.

Hunt for Pass-the-Hash attacks by analyzing NTLM authentication patterns, identifying Type 3 logons where Kerberos is expected, and correlating with credential dumping indicators.

Hunt for adversary abuse of legitimate cloud services for C2, data staging, and exfiltration across Azure, AWS, GCP, and SaaS platforms.

Utilize Shodan, the search engine for Internet-connected devices, to discover exposed assets, vulnerable ports, default credentials, and specific infrastructure configurations using advanced search queries (dorks).

Validate and confirm exploitability of vulnerabilities using the Metasploit Framework for risk-based prioritization and patch verification.

Hunt for threats in AWS environments using Detective behavior graphs, entity investigation timelines, GuardDuty finding correlation, and automated entity profiling across IAM users, EC2 instances, and IP addresses.

Use for identifying security vulnerabilities and hardening code.

Identify sensitive data exposure vulnerabilities including API key leakage, PII in responses, insecure storage, and unprotected data transmission during security assessments.

CVE Vulnerability Analysis Workflow

Hunt for adversary persistence and execution via Windows scheduled tasks by analyzing task creation events, suspicious task properties, and unusual execution patterns.

Identify and test open redirect vulnerabilities in web applications by analyzing URL redirection parameters, bypass techniques, and exploitation chains for phishing and token theft.

Finds, analyzes, and strategizes for high-impact open source contribution opportunities in trending repositories.

Performs a static-analysis penetration test to find exploitable vulnerabilities, providing proof-of-concept payloads and fixes. Covers injection, XSS, authentication bypass, authorization flaws, path traversal, command injection, CSRF, SSRF, hardcoded secrets, and insecure deserialization, with a full attack surface.

Run authenticated vulnerability scans using valid credentials to deeply inspect target systems for missing patches, misconfigurations, and security weaknesses.

Analyzes RAM memory dumps from compromised systems using the Volatility framework to identify malicious processes, injected code, network connections, loaded modules, and extracted credentials.