Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

Using Pacu for AWS Pentesting

Although we have used Pacu throughout this book, this chapter will take the approach of discussing Pacu from the ground up. Ideally, at the end of this chapter, you should understand and be able to utilize the majority of Pacu's offered functionality. That means that you'll be able to take advantage of some of the more advanced features of Pacu and can contribute your own modules and research to the project.

In this chapter, we'll dive deeper into the AWS exploitation toolkit, Pacu, where we will develop an understanding of the following points:

• What Pacu is, why it is important, and how to set it up
• The commands that are offered by Pacu and how we can use them for our benefit
• How we can automate our own tasks ...