Pentest Muse is an artificial intelligence AI assistant designed and developed specifically for cybersecurity researchers and penetration testers. This tool can help penetration testers brainstorm, write payloads, analyze code, or perform network reconnaissance tasks. In addition, Pentest Muse can even execute command-line code and iteratively solve complex problems and tasks.
Tool Installation#
Since this tool is developed based on Python 3.12, we first need to install and configure the Python 3.12+ environment on our local device.
Next, researchers can directly clone the project source code to their local machine using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/pentestmuse-ai/PentestMuse
Then navigate to the project directory, use the pip tool and the requirements.txt provided by the project to install the other required dependencies for this tool:
cd PentestMuse
pip install -r requirements.txt
Additionally, we can also clone the project code to our local machine and install Pentest Muse as a Python package:
pip install.
Tool Execution#
Chat Mode (Default)
In chat mode, we can directly chat with Pentest Muse and ask it to help us brainstorm, write payloads, or perform security analysis on code. Refer to the following command:
python run_app.py
or
pmuse
Agent Mode (Beta)
We can also have Pentest Muse operate in agent mode. In agent mode, Pentest Muse can help us complete a series of simple tasks, such as "help us perform SQL injection testing on a target with the URL xxx." The following command can directly start Pentest Muse in agent mode:
python run_app.py agent
or
pmuse agent
Language Model Selection
API Management
After signing up at www.pentestmuse.ai/signup, we can use Pentest Muse to manage APIs, create an account, open Pentest Muse's command-line interface, and the program will prompt us to log in.
OpenAI API Key
Additionally, we can choose to use our own OpenAI API key. We can simply add the following command-line parameter options when starting the Pentest Muse script:
--openai-api-key=[your openai api key]
Project Repository
Pentest Muse: