Agentless Automation Model for Post Exploitation Penetration Testing

In a world where even the most mundane of tasks requires the intervention of the cyberspace, it is particularly important to be aware of the risks and vulnerabilities that come with cyberspace. This has led to the development of a field better referred to as vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT). There are multiple parts to perform penetration testing, in this paper we will be focusing on the Post Exploitation part. Post exploitation outlines the activities to perform in order to breach the security of a target system by leveraging a discovered exploit. In this paper we propose an agentless model for the automation of post exploitation activities, where agentless means that no third party software is required to be installed on the target machine.