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By Haider Mehdi, Cybersecurity Enthusiast & Penetration Tester

Why Deepseek Prompts Matter in 2025 🚨

Let’s face it: penetration testing in 2025 isn’t what it used to be. With AI-driven attacks and quantum computing looming, ethical hackers need smarter tools. I’ve spent years in the trenches, and Deepseek’s AI-powered prompts have been a game-changer for me. They cut through the noise, letting you focus on real vulnerabilities.

💡  Last month, I used Prompt to bypass a “unhackable” cloud firewall. Turns out, the client had misconfigured their S3 buckets—classic!

Comman

1. Phishing Simulation
   “Generate a phishing email template targeting corporate employees that evades standard spam filters, using psychological triggers related to urgent HR policy updates.”

2. Exploit Development
   “Develop a step-by-step guide to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in a legacy FTP server (Windows XP, ASLR disabled), including shellcode injection and EIP control.”

3. Lab Setup
   “Outline the steps to configure a vulnerable Active Directory lab with common misconfigurations (e.g., Kerberoasting, LLMNR poisoning) for practicing lateral movement techniques.”

4. WAF Bypass
   “Provide 7 techniques to bypass a Web Application Firewall (WAF) during a SQL injection attack, including obfuscation methods and timing-based payloads.”

5. Linux Privilege Escalation
   “List the top 5 privilege escalation methods for a Linux system (e.g., SUID binaries, cron jobs, kernel exploits) and provide commands to identify/exploit them.”

6. Evasion Tactics
   “Create a Metasploit payload (Windows) that evades detection by Windows Defender using custom encryption and process hollowing.”

7. Password Cracking
   “Write a Hashcat command to crack a WPA2 handshake capture file (PMKID included) using a hybrid dictionary/rule-based attack with mask ?a?a?a?a.”

8. Reporting Framework
   “Generate a penetration testing report template with CVSS scoring, PoC screenshots, and remediation steps tailored for non-technical executives and IT teams.”

9. Wireless Attacks
   “Explain how to perform a rogue access point attack using a Raspberry Pi, Kali Linux, and Responder to capture NTLMv2 hashes in a corporate network.”

10. Cloud Security
    “Identify 10 common misconfigurations in AWS S3 buckets/IAM roles and provide CLI commands to exploit them (e.g., privilege escalation, data exfiltration).”

Reconnaissance & OSINT

11. Subdomain Takeover
    “Design a script to identify vulnerable subdomains (e.g., dangling CNAMEs) in a large enterprise domain using crt.sh, Sublist3r, and DNS zone walking.”

12. Cloud Asset Discovery
    “Write a Python script to enumerate exposed AWS resources (S3 buckets, EC2 instances) using Shodan API and misconfigured IAM policies.”

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Web Application Exploits

13. JWT Vulnerabilities
    “Explain how to exploit a flawed JWT implementation (e.g., ‘none’ algorithm, weak secrets) to escalate privileges in a REST API, including Burp Suite payloads.”

14. GraphQL Injection
    “Craft malicious GraphQL queries to extract hidden data (field smuggling, introspection abuse) and bypass rate-limiting in a vulnerable API.”

15. SSRF to Cloud Metadata
    “Demonstrate a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack to access AWS EC2 metadata endpoints and steal IAM credentials from a vulnerable web app.”

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Network & Red Teaming

16. NTLM Relay Attacks
    “Configure Impacket’s ntlmrelayx.py to relay captured NTLM hashes and execute commands on a Domain Controller via SMB and LDAP protocols.”

17. DNS Exfiltration
    “Create a covert data exfiltration channel using DNS TXT records and PowerShell, bypassing network egress monitoring.”

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Mobile & IoT

18. Android APK Reverse Engineering
    “Decompile an Android APK using JADX, identify hardcoded API keys in Smali code, and bypass certificate pinning with Frida.”

19. IoT Firmware Analysis
    “Extract and analyze a vulnerable IoT device firmware (e.g., router) using Binwalk, identify backdoor credentials, and exploit exposed UART ports.”

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Cloud & Containers

20. Kubernetes Privilege Escalation
    “List 5 misconfigured Kubernetes RBAC policies that allow privilege escalation (e.g., pod creation with hostPID) and provide kubectl exploitation commands.”

21. Azure AD Enumeration
    “Use MicroBurst and AzureHound to map tenant roles, service principals, and conditional access policies for lateral movement in Azure Active Directory.”

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Evasion & Advanced Persistence

22. AMSI Bypass
    “Write a custom PowerShell script to bypass AMSI (Antimalware Scan Interface) using memory patching and reflective DLL loading.”

23. Living-off-the-Land Binaries
    “Create a LOLBAS (Living-off-the-Land Binaries and Scripts) attack chain using certutil.exe and msbuild.exe for payload execution and evasion.”

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Physical & Social Engineering

24. BadUSB Payload
    “Program a Rubber Ducky to mimic a HID keyboard, execute keystroke-based PowerShell commands, and establish a reverse shell on a locked Windows workstation.”

25. Vishing Script
    “Develop a vishing (voice phishing) script impersonating IT support to extract Active Directory credentials via a fake password reset portal.”

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Post-Exploitation

26. Golden Ticket Attacks
    “Generate a Kerberos Golden Ticket using Mimikatz on a compromised Domain Controller and persist across forest trusts in a multi-domain environment.”

27. DPAPI Master Key Extraction
    “Dump Windows DPAPI master keys from memory using Mimikatz and decrypt saved browser credentials (Chrome, Edge) from a low-privilege user account.”

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Emerging Threats

28. AI Model Exploitation
    “Identify vulnerabilities in a machine learning API (e.g., model inversion, adversarial inputs) to extract training data or disrupt predictions.”

29. ICS/SCADA Exploits
    “Simulate a Modbus TCP exploit to manipulate PLC registers and disrupt industrial control systems using Python’s scapy library.”

30. Supply Chain Compromise
    “Poison a public Python PyPI package to include a reverse shell payload and evade static analysis checks (e.g., typosquatting, delayed execution).”

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Cloud & Containers

31. Azure Key Vault Exploitation
    “Write a PowerShell script to extract secrets from an Azure Key Vault using a misconfigured Managed Identity and exfiltrate credentials via DNS tunneling.”

32. GCP IAM Privilege Escalation
    “Identify and exploit overprivileged Google Cloud IAM roles (e.g., iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken) to escalate from a low-privileged service account to project admin.”

33. Docker Socket Misuse
    “Demonstrate how access to an exposed Docker socket (/var/run/docker.sock) can lead to container escape and host takeover using malicious container mounts.”

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Web & API Security

34. OAuth Token Hijacking
    “Explain how to steal OAuth tokens via open redirect vulnerabilities in a SAML/OIDC flow and abuse them to access Microsoft Graph API or AWS STS.”

35. WebSocket Hijacking
    “Craft a malicious WebSocket handshake to bypass origin checks and intercept real-time chat data in a vulnerable application using wsrepl or Burp Suite.”

36. API Gateway Misconfigurations
    “Exploit an AWS API Gateway with unvalidated request parameters to invoke unauthorized Lambda functions or access internal EC2 metadata.”

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Red Team Infrastructure

37. C2 Obfuscation with CDNs
    “Configure Cobalt Strike or Sliver C2 traffic to mimic legitimate Cloudflare CDN requests, including domain fronting and JA3/S fingerprint evasion.”

38. Zero-Day Simulation
    “Design a hypothetical exploit chain for a vulnerable PDF parser (CVE-XXXX-XXXX) using fuzzing with AFL++ and ROP gadget chaining in Ghidra.”

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Mobile & macOS

39. iOS Jailbreak Detection Bypass
    “Use Frida to bypass jailbreak detection in an iOS banking app by hooking Objective-C methods like NSFileManager or sysctl checks.”

40. macOS MDM Exploitation
    “Reverse-engineer a macOS Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile to extract embedded credentials and abuse DEP enrollment for persistence.”

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Industrial & Niche Protocols

41. Modbus TCP Replay Attacks
    “Use Python’s scapy library to replay captured Modbus TCP packets and manipulate PLC coil registers (e.g., disable safety systems in a simulated factory).”

42. Zigbee Network Sniffing
    “Set up a Zigbee sniffer using a CC2531 USB dongle and ZBOSS to capture insecure pairing processes and decrypt IoT device traffic.”

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Evasion & Fileless Attacks

43. Windows ETW Bypass
    “Modify a .NET assembly at runtime using dnSpy to disable Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) and evade detection during credential dumping.”

44. Fileless Persistence via WMI
    “Create a WMI event subscription to execute a PowerShell payload in-memory when a specific user logs in, leaving no artifacts on disk.”

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Emerging Tech & Compliance

45. Blockchain Smart Contract Audit
    “Identify reentrancy vulnerabilities in a Solidity smart contract using Slither and demonstrate a flash loan attack on a DeFi protocol.”

46. AI-Powered Defense Bypass
    “Bypass an AI-driven WAF by generating adversarial SQLi payloads using OpenAI’s GPT-4 or similar models to mimic benign traffic patterns.”

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Physical & Hardware

47. RFID Cloning with Proxmark3
    “Clone a HID ProxCard II using a Proxmark3 device and brute-force the facility access code via dictionary attacks on the RF signal.”

48. PCIe DMA Attacks
    “Demonstrate a Direct Memory Access (DMA) attack via Thunderbolt 3 to dump Windows credentials using a Raspberry Pi Pico and PCILeech.”

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Miscellaneous

49. Data Destruction Ransomware Sim
    “Develop a proof-of-concept ransomware that uses cipher.exe /w to overwrite free disk space and encrypts files with ChaCha20 (no C2 for air-gap testing).”

50. Legal Pentest Scoping
    “Draft a penetration testing Rules of Engagement (RoE) document compliant with GDPR/HIPAA, including liability waivers for ICS/SCADA environments.”

51. Purple Team Collaboration
    “Design a collaborative exercise where a red team exploits PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527) and the blue team deploys Sysmon rules to detect spoolsv.exe anomalies.”

52. CI/CD Pipeline Compromise
    “Inject malicious code into a GitHub Actions workflow to exfiltrate AWS keys via a compromised runner and pivot to S3 buckets.”

53. eJPT/eWPT Exam Prep
    “Solve a mock OSCP-style challenge: Exploit a vulnerable WordPress plugin (CSRF to RCE) and escalate privileges via dirty_pipe (CVE-2022-0847).”

54. MFA Fatigue Attack Automation
    “Write a Python script to simulate 100+ MFA push notifications to a Okta user’s device, bypassing rate limits, until they accidentally approve access.”

55. BIOS/UEFI Backdooring
    “Modify a system’s UEFI firmware using CHIPSEC to implant a persistent backdoor that survives OS reinstallation and full disk encryption.”

👋 Final Thoughts

There you have it—55 prompts to up your game in 2025. Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned pro, keep experimenting. And hey, drop a comment below if Prompt saves your next audit! 🎉

FAQs ❓

Q: Are these prompts legal?
A: Always get written consent before testing! Unauthorized hacking = bad idea.

Q: Is Deepseek works with Metasploit?
A: Deepseek integrates with Metasploit seamlessly.