Glossary

Agent

• Coming soon!

Keys

• The AWS access key pair used for authenticating with the AWS API. These include an access key ID, a secret access key, and (possibly) a session token.

Module

• A plugin to Pacu that performs a specific action against an AWS account. These fit in to a few general categories, but examples would include enumeration, exfiltration, or exploitation within an AWS environment.

Session

• Basically an isolated "project" within Pacu. As an example, in a penetration test, a session would be a single company and within that session, many different AWS keys and all relevant data would be stored in it.

Region

• An AWS region that hosts specific AWS services. There are many options, currently Pacu supports the following regions:
  • us-east-2
  • us-east-1
  • us-west-1
  • us-west-2
  • ap-northeast-1
  • ap-northeast-2
  • ap-south-1
  • ap-southeast-1
  • ap-southeast-2
  • ca-central-1
  • eu-central-1
  • eu-west-1
  • eu-west-2
  • eu-west-3
  • sa-east-1