A Bug Bounty Hunter’s AI-Assisted Bot Automates Reconnaissance and Triage
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Summary
A bug bounty hunter demonstrates a low-cost AI-assisted bot for asset discovery, API mapping and lead triage. The prototype still produces false positives, and promising findings remain subject to human review.
Key points
- The bot uses deterministic tools to find hosts, check availability, track changes and map endpoints before an AI agent reviews a smaller set of leads.
- Its agent is intended to prioritize promising leads for human review; the creator says the system is unfinished and its triage still produces noisy results.
- The demo shows the bot identifying JavaScript source maps, API specifications and possible information disclosures, but some endpoints were access-gated or returned errors; these were leads, not confirmed vulnerabilities.
- Findings can be sent to Kaido to map API endpoints and prepare requests for fuzzing. The creator says more skills would be needed for further automated testing and that the bot should avoid requests to random hosts.
- The creator backs up findings and reports to GitHub and describes the project as a work in progress.
Article Details
- Topics
- [00:00] Hackbot goals, current capabilities, and cost constraints
- [01:33] Deterministic reconnaissance followed by AI-assisted lead triage
- [04:11] VPS and Kaido setup and the bot's project structure
- [08:31] Triage errors, false positives, and iterative improvements
- [10:00] Demo of host leads, JavaScript source maps, API specifications, and access-gated endpoints
- [15:15] Sending source-map findings to Kaido for endpoint mapping and fuzzing
- [17:22] Reporting and backing up findings to GitHub