Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
🧠 NeuroSploit v4.3.0
Autonomous, multi-model penetration-testing harness — Rust, CLI-first.
by Joas A Santos & Red Team Leaders
What is NeuroSploit?
NeuroSploit is an autonomous penetration-testing tool. You point it at a target; it does the security assessment on its own and hands you a report — recon, exploitation, chaining findings into real impact, and validation, with no human driving each step.
The key idea: the harness is the pentester, not the model. Instead of asking one LLM to "hack this", a Rust engine runs the methodology — it picks the right specialist agents for what it finds, runs them in parallel, re-sends every claim over the wire to confirm it's real, and has a second model check each finding before it's reported. The LLMs are the hands; the harness is the discipline that keeps them honest. That's why it finds more and invents less than running a model directly.
It's CLI-first (with a web console and a TUI), open source (MIT), and runs on your own API keys or a local subscription — nothing about your targets leaves your machine unless you send it.
Give NeuroSploit a URL, a source repo, a running app, or a host/IP. A Rust
harness (tokio) drives a pool of LLMs — via API key or local
subscription (Claude Code / Codex / Gemini / Grok) — and runs the whole
engagement for you:
recon ─▶ pick only the agents that fit the surface ─▶ exploit in parallel
─▶ wire-check every claim ─▶ cross-model vote ─▶ chain into deeper impact ─▶ report
It won't invent findings: every claim needs a receipt (raw tool output or a
file:line), is re-sent by the harness itself to confirm it reproduces, and
is adjudicated by a second model before it reaches the report.
⭐ Useful? Star the repo. 📖 Deep dive: TUTORIAL.md · changelog: RELEASE.md · honest comparison: BENCHMARK.md
Install
Linux / macOS (x64 & arm64):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JoasASantos/NeuroSploit/main/setup.sh | bash
Windows (PowerShell):
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JoasASantos/NeuroSploit/main/install.ps1 | iex
The installer sets up Rust if missing, builds the release binary, and links
neurosploit onto your PATH. Build by hand instead:
git clone https://github.com/JoasASantos/NeuroSploit && cd NeuroSploit/neurosploit-rs
cargo build --release # → target/release/neurosploit
Quick start
# just run it — the interactive session asks everything, in plain language:
neurosploit
# black-box, subscription login (no API key):
neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
# white-box — review a source repo (file:line evidence):
neurosploit whitebox /path/to/repo --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
# web console — a browser UI over the same CLI:
cd web && npm start # → http://localhost:4173
No subscription? Use an API key for any provider instead — see TUTORIAL.md.
Modes
| Mode | Command | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Black-box | neurosploit run <url> |
recon → select → exploit → vote → report |
| White-box | neurosploit whitebox <repo> |
source / SAST review (file:line evidence) |
| Grey-box | neurosploit greybox <repo> --url <app> |
code review + live exploitation together |
| Host / Infra | neurosploit host <ip> --creds creds.yaml |
Linux / Windows / AD + cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) |
| AI / LLM | neurosploit aitest <ai-url> |
jailbreaks, prompt injection, OWASP LLM Top 10 / MCP |
| Mobile / Binary | neurosploit mobile <app.apk|.ipa|bin> |
RE a local artifact (Ghidra / MobSF / Frida) |
| Container | neurosploit container <image:tag> |
OCI image scan + SBOM (trivy/grype/syft) |
| Mission Control | neurosploit tui <url> |
live TUI panels + a composer you type in mid-run |
What makes it different
- The harness is the pentester. Agent selection is recon-driven; findings chain (reduce a foothold to a primitive — exec / read / write / SSRF / identity / secret — then pivot), each stage proven and non-destructive.
- Wire-bound evidence — every reported exchange is re-sent through a scope-guarded replay engine and checked against recorded traffic. A claim the wire contradicts can't stand as confirmed.
- Attack knowledge graph (Neo4j optional) — the run is a typed graph of
hosts, services, findings, credentials and impact, spanning web and internal
network. It directs the next move during the run and is written to
graph/even without a database. - Deterministic validation — per-CWE validators judge the measured request/response bytes, not the model's prose. Grounding gate, POMDP belief and an anti-hallucination check demote anything the evidence doesn't support.
- Secrets never leak the report — credentials the agents observe become
$SECRET_nin every human-facing report; raw values stay in the run's vault for re-testing only. - 486 markdown agents across web, code (SAST), AI, infra/AD/cloud, chains and recon — each a self-contained playbook you can read, edit or add to.
- Run via API key or subscription, 19 providers, including local & CPU-only
(
ollama:/llamacpp:) with no data leaving the host.
Web console
cd web && npm start # → http://localhost:4173
A browser UI that drives the same CLI — no second engine. Launch and watch a run live, then per finding:
- Attack graph — host → service → finding → credential → impact, every edge marked confirmed / needs-validation / hypothesis, ordered by kill-chain stage.
- Wire evidence — the real request/response pairs behind a finding (baseline vs. attack, the identity pair, matrix probes, the oracle), each tagged with its wire provenance — the proof as bytes, not prose.
- Re-test one finding — re-run its proof through the replay engine; the dated history shows a finding drift to "gone" over time.
- Transcript viewer — any agent's run, split into navigable blocks; search spans every agent.
- Chains, dependency todolist, recorded traffic, deliverables, PDF export.
What a run leaves behind
Every run is a self-contained folder, runs/ns-<ts>-<target>/:
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
report.html · report.pdf · report.md |
the report (PDF via Typst), secrets redacted |
findings.json / findings.md |
validated findings (raw, for tools & re-testing) |
report.sarif |
SARIF 2.1.0 for CI code-scanning |
graph/ |
attack chains, dependency todolist, Cypher + JSON export |
recon.json · exploitation.md · traces/ |
surface, transcript, per-agent traces |
pocs/ · evidence/ |
runnable PoCs and proof screenshots |
Integrations
GitHub / GitLab PR review gate (neurosploit pr <repo> <n> --fail-on critical),
@neurosploit mention bot, one Jira card per finding, MCP server
(neurosploit mcp), compliance mapping (PCI-DSS / HIPAA / SOC 2 / GDPR). See
TUTORIAL.md.
Safety
For authorized testing only. Agents stay in scope, never run destructive / DoS actions, and require proof of exploitation. You are responsible for having permission for every target.
Credits & license
Joas A Santos & Red Team Leaders — MIT.
This is the slim, Rust-only distribution (
neurosploit-rs/+agents_md/). The older Python engine and web GUIs live on thev3.4.0branch.