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Active enumeration phase — port scanning, service detection, banner grabbing. Use when the current phase is ENUMERATION.

Exploitation phase — exploit confirmed vulns, credential attacks, gain access. Use when the current phase is EXPLOITATION.

Post-exploitation phase — privilege escalation, lateral movement, credential dumping, data discovery. Use when the current phase is POST_EXPLOIT.

Passive reconnaissance phase — OSINT, DNS, WHOIS, subdomain discovery. Use when starting a new engagement or when the current phase is RECON.

Reporting phase — generate structured pentest report from findings. Use when the current phase is REPORTING.

Vulnerability assessment phase — scanning, CVE lookup, misconfig detection. Use when the current phase is VULN_ASSESS.

Active Directory pentest playbook — Kerberos, LDAP, GPO, ADCS, delegation, lateral movement, DA paths. Load at the START of an AD engagement or when a Windows domain / DC is found. Triggers - domain controller, Kerberos 88, LDAP 389/636, domain SMB, BloodHound, kerberoast, AS-REP, NTLM, ESC1-8.

Cloud security playbook — AWS/GCP/Azure misconfiguration and attack patterns (IAM, storage, metadata, privesc). Load when the target is a cloud environment or you obtain cloud creds/metadata. Triggers - AWS/GCP/Azure, IAM role/policy, S3/blob bucket, 169.254.169.254 metadata, access key, assume-role, cloud console.

Infrastructure pentest playbook — PTES-based phase flow for internal networks, servers, and non-web services. Load at the START of an internal/infra engagement or multi-host network assessment. Triggers - internal network, subnet/CIDR scan, infra pentest, multi-host, pivoting, lateral movement across services.

Web application pentest methodology + ROUTER to the per-vuln-class web skills. Load at the START of systematic web testing to get the phase flow (recon → map → test-by-OWASP-class → prove → report) and pick which web-<class> skill to load for each surface. Use on any web app / HTTP API engagement.

CI/CD & dev-infra attack techniques — credential exposure, RCE (script console / build), pipeline abuse, secret stores. Use when a CI/CD or SCM service is exposed. Triggers - Jenkins /job/ or script console, GitLab, ArgoCD, TeamCity, Gitea, Drone, exposed .git, runner token, pipeline.

Database service attack techniques — auth bypass, UDF/xp_cmdshell/COPY-TO-PROGRAM RCE, file read/write, cred dump. Use when a database service is found or you have DB creds. Triggers - MySQL 3306, PostgreSQL 5432, MSSQL 1433, Oracle 1521, Redis 6379, MongoDB 27017, db banner, default DB creds, NOAUTH.

DNS attack techniques — zone transfer, subdomain enumeration/takeover, cache poisoning. Use when DNS is found or you're mapping a domain. Triggers - port 53, named/bind, AXFR zone transfer, dangling CNAME, subdomain takeover, wildcard DNS.

Docker/Kubernetes attack techniques — exposed API abuse, container escape, RBAC/privileged-pod issues, secret theft. Use when a container/orchestration surface is found. Triggers - Docker 2375/2376, Kubernetes API 6443, kubelet 10250, etcd 2379, /version, privileged pod, service-account token, docker.sock.

FTP attack techniques — anonymous access, writable dirs, version CVEs, credential attacks. Use when FTP is open. Triggers - port 21, ftp banner, vsftpd 2.3.4, ProFTPD mod_copy, anonymous login, pure-ftpd.

Mail server attack techniques — SMTP open relay, VRFY/EXPN/RCPT user enumeration, header injection, IMAP/POP3 access. Use when a mail service is found. Triggers - SMTP 25/465/587, POP3 110, IMAP 143, Postfix/Exim/Sendmail/Dovecot banner, VRFY.

Turn a foothold into a RELIABLE pivot (SOCKS tunnel + persistent shell) so internal volume never rides a fragile stateless RCE. Use the moment you have code-exec on a dual-homed/edge host and need to reach an internal segment. Triggers - dual-homed host, "not reachable from my box", internal CIDR behind a foothold, RCE truncates output, need proxychains/nmap through a host, chisel/ligolo.

SMB/CIFS attack techniques — null sessions, share enumeration, NTLM relay, EternalBlue, signing checks. Use when SMB is found. Triggers - ports 445/139, netbios, MS17-010 EternalBlue, signing:False, null session, share access, PetitPotam/coerce.

SSH attack techniques — version CVEs, auth-method/user enumeration, key issues, targeted brute. Use when SSH is open. Triggers - port 22, OpenSSH banner, regreSSHion CVE-2024-6387, user-enum CVE-2018-15473, authorized_keys, weak/leaked key.

Web SERVER software (not app-layer) attack techniques — server misconfigs, known server CVEs, path traversal, exposed status/config. Use when you fingerprint the web server itself (for app-layer bugs use the web-<class> skills). Triggers - Server header, Apache 2.4.49/2.4.50, nginx alias traversal, IIS, Tomcat, /server-status, .htaccess.

Broken access control - IDOR, privilege escalation, JWT abuse, mass assignment, forced browsing - for web apps and APIs. Use on any multi-user or role-based app with object IDs, tokens, or admin functionality. Triggers - /api/users/<id>, /orders/<id>, ?account=/uid=/doc=, JWT (eyJ...), role/isAdmin field, admin panel, "403 Forbidden", numeric or guessable object references.

Insecure deserialization to RCE for web apps. Use when the app deserializes attacker-controlled data - cookies/tokens/hidden fields/params that are serialized blobs, VIEWSTATE, Java/PHP/.NET/Python/Node apps. Triggers - base64 starting rO0AB or hex AC ED 00 05 (Java), PHP serialize O-prefix, __VIEWSTATE, python pickle, node-serialize, unserialize error, ObjectInputStream.

Path traversal / Local File Inclusion detection→file-read→RCE for web apps. Use when a param names a file/path/page/template/lang/download, or a response embeds file contents. Triggers - file=/page=/path=/template=/lang=/download=/include= param, ../, %2e%2e, "no such file", directory listing, download endpoint.