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Penetration Testing Services (VAPT)
QACraft's penetration testing services simulate real attacks to prove what an attacker could actually do — certified ethical hackers going beyond scanning to exploit, confirm and demonstrate real business impact, every finding CVSS-scored and retested.
what it is
What Is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing is an authorised, simulated attack on your systems — carried out by certified ethical hackers who think and act like a real adversary. The goal is not just to find weaknesses, but to prove which ones are genuinely exploitable and show the real business impact if they were used.
It is the depth half of VAPT. A vulnerability assessment casts a wide net and lists what might be wrong; a penetration test goes deep on what matters and demonstrates what an attacker could actually achieve — account takeover, data exfiltration, privilege escalation. The two are companions: breadth and depth.
QACraft's penetration testing services follow structured methodology (OWASP, OSSTMM, PTES, MITRE ATT&CK), exploit safely and within agreed rules of engagement, and deliver a report your developers can act on — every finding CVSS-scored, CWE-mapped, proven, and retested after you fix it.
our services
Our Penetration Testing Services
We run focused penetration tests across every layer an attacker can reach — web, API, network, mobile and the human element — and tailor the depth (black-, grey- or white-box) to your risk.
Manual exploitation of your web apps against the OWASP Top 10 and beyond — injection, broken access control, business-logic abuse and chained attacks.
Deep testing of your machine-to-machine surface against the OWASP API Top 10 — see our dedicated API security testing.
External and internal testing of hosts, services and segmentation — finding the exposed service or misconfiguration that gives an attacker a foothold.
iOS and Android testing aligned to the OWASP MASVS — insecure storage, weak crypto, and broken platform protections.
Proving auth bypass, session and privilege-escalation flaws end to end — paired with our authentication & authorization testing.
Authorised phishing and pretext testing to measure the human attack surface — the entry point behind most real breaches.
Flexible engagement models
A scoped, fixed engagement for a release, an audit or a compliance deadline — full report, proof-backed findings and a remediation retest.
Recurring penetration testing on a cadence, so each major change is exploited and your risk posture is tracked release over release.
Pentesters who plug into your security team and SDLC under your leadership — scaled up or down as your roadmap demands.
tools & frameworks
Tools & Frameworks We Use
Tooling supports the tester — it never replaces them. We pair industry-standard offensive tools with manual technique, because the exploits that matter are the ones a scanner cannot reach:
The core proxy for manual web and API exploitation.
Controlled, authorised exploitation to prove real impact.
Network and service discovery to map the attack surface.
Focused, controlled testing for SQL-injection exploitation.
Template-driven detection of known vulnerability patterns.
Active Directory attack-path analysis for internal tests.
Mobile app exploitation aligned to OWASP MASVS.
Infrastructure and configuration vulnerability discovery.
why automate
Why Penetration Testing Matters
A vulnerability you only suspect is easy to deprioritise. A vulnerability someone has demonstrably exploited gets fixed. Penetration testing turns risk from a theory into proof — and that changes everything:
Move past "this might be a problem" to "here is exactly how an attacker takes over an account" — so the right things get fixed first.
A confirmed exploit shows what is actually reachable — data, money, admin — not a generic severity guess from a scanner.
Business-logic flaws, broken access control and chained exploits are invisible to automated tools and are exactly where real breaches happen.
Independent penetration testing is required or expected by SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS and enterprise security questionnaires.
CVSS scores backed by proof let you spend remediation effort where the real, demonstrated risk is — not on noise.
A pentest tests your detection and response too — did anyone notice the attack? — not just the vulnerability itself.
our process
Our Penetration Testing Process
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path — and produces a concrete artifact at the end of each phase, so you always know exactly what you are getting.
Scope & Rules of Engagement
We agree targets, depth (black-, grey- or white-box), test windows and a signed rules-of-engagement document — so the test is realistic, authorised and safe from the first packet.
→ artifact: scope + signed rules of engagementRecon & Mapping
We map the real attack surface — endpoints, services, roles and trust boundaries — and enumerate where an attacker would actually start, building the picture a scanner never sees.
→ artifact: attack-surface map + entry pointsExploit & Validate
Certified pentesters attempt controlled, authorised exploitation — chaining flaws, escalating privilege, bypassing access control — and validate real impact instead of reporting a theoretical maybe.
→ artifact: proof-of-exploit for confirmed findingsReport, Remediate & Retest
You get a pentest report a developer can act on — each finding CVSS-scored, CWE-mapped, with reproduction, evidence and a fix. After remediation, we retest to confirm the issue is genuinely closed.
→ artifact: actionable pentest report + retestSee a pentest, stage by stage
A sample engagement — recon, scan, a controlled exploit attempt, validation, and a logged critical: auth bypass on /admin → confirmed → Critical → reported. Illustrative process and findings only — no real payloads.
depth over breadth
Where Scanners Stop and Pentesters Start
Automated scanners are fast and broad — they are excellent at flagging candidates. But a candidate is not a confirmed risk. A scanner says "/admin might accept a forged cookie"; it cannot tell you whether that actually leads to account takeover. That gap — between a maybe and a proven critical — is where penetration testing lives.
We use automated and AI-augmented recon to map the surface and clear the obvious quickly, so our certified pentesters spend their time on what only a human can do: chaining flaws, abusing business logic, escalating privilege, and proving real impact within the agreed rules of engagement.
The result is the best of both: machine breadth for coverage, human depth for proof. Every finding in your report was confirmed by a person before it reached you.
industries
Industries We Serve
We provide penetration testing for teams where a breach is an existential event — where regulators, money and sensitive data raise the cost of every exploitable flaw.
why us
Why Choose QACraft for Penetration Testing
Teams choose QACraft when they want pentesters who prove and prioritise real risk — not a scan-and-PDF service that reports theory and walks away.
Hands-on, certified pentesters who exploit by technique, not just tooling.
Engagements follow OWASP, OSSTMM, PTES and MITRE ATT&CK — structured, repeatable coverage, not ad-hoc poking.
We confirm exploitability and show real business impact, so you fix demonstrated risk instead of chasing scanner noise.
CVSS-scored, CWE-mapped findings with reproduction, evidence and a developer-ready fix — a report you can act on Monday.
We retest after remediation to confirm each finding is genuinely closed — not just reported once and forgotten.
Pentesting connects to your broader security, functional and automation QA under one team — joined-up, not stitched together.
straight answers
Frequently Asked Questions
What is penetration testing (VAPT)?
Penetration testing is an authorised, simulated attack on your application or infrastructure, performed by ethical hackers to find vulnerabilities and — critically — prove they are exploitable. VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing) pairs broad discovery with deep exploitation: the assessment finds and lists weaknesses, the penetration test proves which ones an attacker could actually use.
What's the difference between penetration testing and a vulnerability assessment?
It's breadth vs depth. A vulnerability assessment scans widely and produces a prioritised list of potential weaknesses — fast, broad coverage. A penetration test goes deeper: it manually exploits those weaknesses to confirm real, demonstrable impact, finding business-logic and chained flaws scanners miss. Assessment answers 'what might be wrong?'; a pentest answers 'what can an attacker actually do?' Most mature programs run both.
Which methodology and standards do you follow?
Our engagements follow recognised methodologies — the OWASP Testing Guide and OWASP Top 10 / API Top 10, the OSSTMM, the PTES (Penetration Testing Execution Standard), and the MITRE ATT&CK framework for adversary techniques — so testing is structured, repeatable and thorough, not ad-hoc.
Black-box, grey-box or white-box — which do we need?
Black-box simulates an external attacker with no inside knowledge. Grey-box gives partial access (e.g. a low-privilege login) — usually the best value, as it reflects a real compromised-account scenario. White-box shares full source and architecture for the deepest coverage. We recommend the right depth for your risk in scoping; many engagements combine them.
Is it safe to run a pentest against production?
Yes — safety is built into the engagement. Testing is authorised and bounded by a signed rules-of-engagement document, exploitation is controlled and non-destructive, and high-risk actions are coordinated with your team and run in agreed windows. Where production is too sensitive, we test a production-like staging environment.
What's in the report, and do you retest after we fix?
You get an actionable pentest report: an executive summary, each finding CVSS-scored and CWE-mapped with reproduction steps, evidence of impact, and a developer-ready remediation. After your team applies the fixes, we retest to confirm each issue is genuinely closed.
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