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Overview

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Description

Pacu is an AWS exploitation tool that provides tools for performing reconnaissance, automated exploitation of vulnerabilities, persistence, and log disruption.

Quick Start Guide

Requirements

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu
$ cd Pacu
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

More in-depth guide can be found here.

Getting Started

$ python pacu.py

Note: Upon launching Pacu for the first time, you will be asked to create a new session.

Usage

If you are ever stuck, help will bring up a list of commands that are available.

Useful Commands

  • list will list the available modules for the regions that were set in the current session.
  • help module_name will return the applicable help information for the specified module.
  • run module_name will run the specified module with its default parameters.
  • run module_name --regions eu-west-1,us-west-1 will run the specified module against the eu-west-1 and us-west-1 regions (for modules that support the --regions argument)

Modules

Included with Pacu are some default modules. Full descriptions can be found here.

Recon

buckethead_s3_enum - Enumerates/bruteforces S3 buckets based on different parameters.

confirm_permissions - Tries to get a confirmed list of permissions for the current user.

download_ec2_userdata - Downloads user data from EC2 instances.

enum_cloudtrails - Enumerates CloudTrail trails, mainly for other modules.

enum_ebs_volumes_snapshots - Enumerates EBS volumes and snapshots and logs any without encryption.

enum_ec2 - Enumerates a ton of relevant EC2 info.

enum_ec2_termination_protection - Collects a list of EC2 instances without termination protection.

enum_elb_logging - Collects a list of Elastic Load Balancers without access logging.

enum_glue - Enumerates Glue connections, crawlers, databases, development endpoints, and jobs.

enum_monitoring - Detects monitoring and logging capabilities.

enum_users_roles_policies_groups - Enumerates users, roles, customer-managed policies, and groups.

get_credential_report - Generates and downloads an IAM credential report.

s3_bucket_dump - Enumerate and dumps files from S3 buckets.

Post Exploitation

add_ec2_startup_sh_script - Stops and restarts EC2 instances to execute code.

backdoor_ec2_sec_groups - Adds backdoor rules to EC2 security groups.

cloudtrail_csv_injection - Inject malicious formulas/data into CloudTrail event history.

download_lightsail_ssh_keys - Downloads Lightsails default SSH key pairs.

Escalation

backdoor_assume_role - Creates assume-role trust relationships between users and roles.

privesc_scan - An IAM privilege escalation path finder and abuser.

Persistence

backdoor_users_keys - Adds API keys to other users.

backdoor_users_password - Adds a password to users without one.

Logging

dl_cloudtrail_event_history - Downloads CloudTrail event history to JSON files.

Module Development

A key design philosophy for Pacu is the inclusion of modules with a standardized format to allow for simple, but powerful scripts that work well together, but can be customized to fit a developer's needs.

More information on module development can be found here.

Glossary

Unfamaliar terms and specific terminology are located here.

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