Penetration Testing

Secure Your AI Before It Becomes a Liability

AI and machine learning systems introduce an entirely new attack surface that traditional security testing cannot address. From large language models vulnerable to prompt injection to computer vision systems susceptible to adversarial perturbations, your AI infrastructure requires specialized offensive testing. Apphaz delivers deep, hands-on AI/ML penetration testing that uncovers the vulnerabilities attackers will find first — before they weaponize your own models against you.

Assessment Coverage

What we test

Our testers systematically evaluate every attack vector relevant to this assessment type.

Prompt Injection & Jailbreaking

We craft sophisticated direct and indirect prompt injection attacks to bypass your LLM guardrails, extract system prompts, override safety filters, and manipulate model behavior. Our testing covers both user-facing chatbots and backend LLM integrations where injected instructions can chain through multi-step workflows to trigger unintended actions, data leaks, or privilege escalation.

Model Extraction & Theft

Attackers can reconstruct your proprietary models by systematically querying your API endpoints. We simulate model stealing attacks using prediction API abuse, hyperparameter inference, and decision boundary mapping to determine whether your intellectual property can be replicated. We evaluate rate limiting, output sanitization, and API access controls that should prevent extraction.

Training Data Poisoning

We assess your ML pipeline for data poisoning vulnerabilities — from upstream data sources and labeling workflows to fine-tuning datasets. Our testers evaluate whether adversaries can inject malicious samples that cause targeted misclassification, introduce backdoor triggers, or degrade model accuracy over time without detection by your monitoring systems.

Adversarial Input Attacks

We generate adversarial examples — imperceptible perturbations to images, text, or audio — that cause your models to produce incorrect outputs with high confidence. Testing covers evasion attacks against classification systems, object detection bypass, NLP model manipulation, and robustness evaluation under FGSM, PGD, C&W, and other established attack methodologies.

AI Supply Chain Security

Your AI stack depends on open-source models, pre-trained weights, third-party APIs, and shared datasets. We audit your AI supply chain for malicious model files (pickle deserialization attacks), compromised Hugging Face repositories, vulnerable dependencies in ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, and insecure model serving infrastructure.

Output Manipulation & Data Leakage

We test whether your AI systems can be coerced into leaking sensitive training data through membership inference, model inversion, or carefully crafted extraction prompts. For RAG-based systems, we evaluate whether retrieval boundaries can be bypassed to access documents outside the intended scope, exposing confidential information to unauthorized users.

Methodology

Our approach

A structured methodology that ensures thorough coverage and actionable results.

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Scope & Model Profiling

We begin by understanding your AI architecture — model types, training pipelines, data sources, deployment infrastructure, and integration points. We identify high-risk components, define testing boundaries, and build a threat model specific to your AI/ML implementation. This includes cataloging all model endpoints, API surfaces, and data flows.

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Automated & Manual Assessment

Using purpose-built AI security tooling alongside manual techniques, we probe your models for known vulnerability classes. We run adversarial attack frameworks, test prompt injection vectors, attempt model extraction through API queries, and evaluate training pipeline integrity. Every test is tailored to your specific model architecture and use case.

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Exploitation & Impact Validation

When we discover a weakness, we exploit it to demonstrate real-world impact. This means extracting actual training data, bypassing safety filters to generate harmful content, manipulating model predictions to produce business-critical errors, or chaining AI vulnerabilities with application-layer flaws for maximum impact.

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Reporting & Remediation Guidance

We deliver a comprehensive report detailing every finding with proof-of-concept exploits, severity ratings calibrated to your business context, and specific remediation guidance. Recommendations cover guardrail improvements, input validation strategies, output filtering, monitoring enhancements, and architectural changes to harden your AI systems against real-world threats.

Tools & Standards

Technologies and frameworks we use

Tools
Garak (LLM vulnerability scanner)Counterfit (adversarial ML)TextAttackAdversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART)Custom prompt injection frameworksPyRIT (Python Risk Identification Toolkit)
Frameworks & Standards
OWASP Top 10 for LLM ApplicationsMITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems)NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF)OWASP Machine Learning Security Top 10EU AI Act Security Requirements
Deliverables

What you receive

Executive Summary

A business-focused overview of your AI security posture, key risks identified, and strategic recommendations for leadership and stakeholders — written in plain language with clear risk ratings.

Technical Findings Report

Detailed documentation of every vulnerability discovered, including attack methodology, proof-of-concept demonstrations, affected model components, exploitation chains, and step-by-step reproduction instructions.

Adversarial Test Artifacts

All adversarial examples, prompt injection payloads, extraction queries, and test scripts used during the engagement — provided so your team can integrate them into regression testing and CI/CD validation pipelines.

Remediation Roadmap

Prioritized action plan with specific technical fixes, guardrail configurations, monitoring recommendations, and architectural improvements — organized by severity and implementation effort to guide your engineering team.

Secure Your AI Systems Today

Your AI models are only as trustworthy as the security testing behind them. Let our specialists find the vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them in production.