# PTHelper: An open source tool to support the Penetration Testing process

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08242 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.08242/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 12 Jun 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [VulnBot: Autonomous Penetration Testing for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.13411/) (2025)
- [AutoPentest: Enhancing Vulnerability Management With Autonomous LLM Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.10321/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Offensive security is one of the state of the art measures to protect enterprises and organizations. Penetration testing, broadly called pentesting, is a branch of offensive security designed to find, rate and exploit these vulnerabilities, in order to assess the security posture of an organization. This process is often time-consuming and the quantity of information that pentesters need to manage might also be difficult to handle. This project takes a practical approach to solve the automation of pentesting and proposes a usable tool, called PTHelper. This open-source tool has been designed in a modular way to be easily upgradable by the pentesting community, and uses state of the art tools and artificial intelligence to achieve its objective.