Web Application
Penetration Testing
Your web applications are the front door to your data. Canima deploys hundreds of vulnerability-specific AI agents that go deep into your apps: SPAs, REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, WebSockets, testing every parameter, every endpoint, every authentication flow. Full OWASP Top 10 coverage and beyond, with proof-of-concept evidence for every confirmed finding.
$ canima agent deploy --scope webapp
[*] Target: https://app.example.com
[*] Spider: 847 endpoints mapped
[+] SQLi (blind time-based): /api/users?id=1
Payload: 1' AND SLEEP(5)-- -
Response: 5.02s delay confirmed
[+] XSS (stored): /comments POST body
Context: HTML attribute injection
[+] IDOR: /api/orders/{id} → user B data
[!] 14 confirmed vulnerabilities found
Every Vulnerability Class Gets Its Own Expert Agent
A generic scanner runs the same checks against every parameter. Canima assigns a dedicated AI agent to each vulnerability class, an agent that thinks only about SQL injection, or only about XSS, or only about SSRF, eliminating context rot and catching what scanners miss.
Injection Attacks
Dedicated agents for SQL injection (6 techniques: error-based, UNION, blind boolean, blind time-based, stacked queries, out-of-band), OS command injection, NoSQL injection (MongoDB operators, JavaScript injection), and server-side template injection across Jinja2, Twig, Freemarker, and more. Each technique gets its own payload generation and detection logic.
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Specialized XSS agents test reflected, stored, and DOM-based vectors with context-aware payload generation. The agent understands HTML context (attribute, tag, JavaScript block, URL) and crafts payloads that match the injection point. Advanced fuzzing with encoding bypass, WAF evasion, and mutation-based payload generation for edge cases that template scanners miss.
Authentication & Authorization
JWT vulnerability testing covers algorithm confusion (none, HS256/RS256 swap), claim tampering, weak signing keys, and token expiration bypass. IDOR testing across all identified object references with automated privilege escalation checks. Session management analysis includes fixation, prediction, and improper invalidation. Mass assignment and hidden parameter discovery via parameter fuzzing.
SSRF & Server-Side Attacks
SSRF agents test for internal service access, cloud metadata endpoint exposure (AWS IMDSv1/v2, GCP, Azure), protocol smuggling (gopher, file, dict), and DNS rebinding. XXE injection testing across XML parsers with out-of-band data exfiltration. Insecure deserialization detection for Java (ObjectInputStream), Python (pickle), YAML, and JSON formats.
API & Modern Architecture Testing
GraphQL testing covers introspection abuse, query complexity attacks (depth/breadth), batching attacks, and authorization bypass on nested resolvers. REST API testing includes method tampering, content-type confusion, and rate limiting bypass. WebSocket security testing for injection via message frames and cross-site WebSocket hijacking. HTTP request smuggling across CL.TE, TE.CL, and TE.TE desynchronization variants.
Configuration & Infrastructure
Security header analysis validates CSP directives, HSTS preload status, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, and Permissions-Policy. CORS misconfiguration detection with origin reflection and null origin testing. Host header injection and cache poisoning assessment. Open redirect detection with chaining analysis, finding where a redirect can be leveraged as a stepping stone for phishing or token theft.
How Web Application Testing Works
A four-stage pipeline that starts with complete application mapping, builds a baseline understanding, then deploys vulnerability-specific agents that share discoveries through the knowledge graph in real time.
Discovery & Application Mapping
Spider agents crawl the application using headless browser automation, navigating JavaScript-heavy SPAs, intercepting AJAX calls, evaluating the DOM, and capturing WebSocket traffic. Archive-based URL discovery and JavaScript static analysis supplement the crawl. Every endpoint, parameter, header, and cookie is indexed in the knowledge graph as interconnected nodes.
Baseline & Technology Fingerprinting
Fingerprinting agents identify frameworks, libraries, server technologies, and their exact versions. CVEs are mapped against detected versions with exploit availability data. The graph is enriched with technology nodes linked to their known vulnerability classes, informing which specialized agents should prioritize which endpoints.
Vulnerability-Specific Agent Deployment
Dedicated agents deploy in parallel: the SQLi agent targets parameters the graph has marked as database-backed, the XSS agent focuses on reflected output points, the SSRF agent tests URL-type parameters, and the auth agent probes access control boundaries. Each agent writes confirmed findings back to the graph with full request/response evidence, enabling cross-vulnerability chain detection.
Validation & Reporting
QA agents re-verify every finding, eliminating false positives. Each confirmed vulnerability gets CVSS scoring, CVE/CWE classification, affected URL and parameter detail, full reproduction steps with request/response captures, and specific remediation guidance. Reports include a vulnerability type distribution chart, security score, and executive summary alongside deep technical detail.
Agents See What Scanners Cannot
Traditional scanners test parameters in isolation. Canima's agents share a live knowledge graph where every endpoint, parameter, and finding is connected. When the spider discovers a new API route, every vulnerability agent knows about it. When the SQLi agent confirms a database-backed parameter, the SSRF agent adjusts its strategy. This is coordinated intelligence, not parallel scanning.
MATCH (crawler:SpiderAgent)
-[:MAPPED]->(ep:Endpoint)
-[:ACCEPTS]->(param:Parameter)
MATCH (sqli:SQLiAgent)
-[:EXPLOITED]->(vuln:SQLi)
-[:VIA]->(param)
WHERE vuln.technique IN ['union','blind']
RETURN ep, param, vuln,
vuln.dbType AS backend
Endpoint-to-Vulnerability Mapping
The graph connects every discovered endpoint to its parameters, their types (string, URL, JSON, file), and the vulnerability agents that tested them. You see exactly what was tested, what was found, and what was clean.
Cross-Vulnerability Chain Detection
An open redirect alone might be low severity. An open redirect that chains with an OAuth callback to steal tokens is critical. Agents traverse the graph to find multi-step attack chains that isolated testing cannot detect.
Technology-Informed Prioritization
When fingerprinting identifies a specific framework version, the graph links it to known vulnerability patterns. Agents targeting those endpoints run framework-specific payloads first, increasing both speed and detection rate.
Beyond DAST: Agent-Driven Application Security
DAST scanners run predetermined checks against every parameter and call it done. Canima deploys specialized agents that understand vulnerability context, adapt their payloads to the injection point, and coordinate through a shared knowledge graph to find what automated scanners fundamentally cannot.
One Agent Per Vulnerability Class
The XSS agent is fine-tuned for XSS and nothing else. It understands HTML injection contexts, JavaScript execution sinks, DOM mutation patterns, and WAF bypass techniques. This domain specificity produces findings that generic scanning engines miss because they spread attention across every vulnerability type simultaneously.
Headless Browser for Modern Apps
Single-page applications, client-side routing, and JavaScript-rendered content are invisible to traditional scanners. Canima's spider agents use full headless browser automation, executing JavaScript, handling authentication flows, intercepting API calls, and capturing dynamically rendered endpoints that static crawlers cannot see.
Context-Aware Payload Generation
Generic scanners fire the same payload list at every input. Canima's agents analyze the injection context first (is this inside an HTML attribute, a JavaScript string, a JSON body, a SQL WHERE clause?) then generate payloads specifically crafted for that context, dramatically increasing both detection rate and accuracy.
| Capability | Canima | Others |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated agent per vulnerability class | Yes | No |
| Context-aware payload generation | Yes | No |
| Live knowledge graph correlation | Yes | No |
| Full SPA/headless browser support | Yes | No |
| GraphQL & WebSocket testing | Yes | No |
| Cross-vulnerability chain detection | Yes | No |
| Proof-of-concept for every finding | Yes | No |
| Scheduled recurring assessments | Yes | No |
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