n8n Cybersecurity Workflows
A GitHub repo of n8n automation blueprints for security teams, organized into Red Team/Pentest, Blue Team (SOC/DFIR/TI), AppSec/DevSecOps, and Platform/General categories. Each of the ~90 workflow ideas gives a Purpose, Integrations, and Flow Outline (e.g., subdomain recon hubs, attack-surface diffing, GoPhish campaign launchers, C2 event forwarding, phishing auto-triage, SAST-on-PR with Semgrep, DAST nightly with ZAP, container image policy gates, CVE prioritization with EPSS/KEV) that map to concrete n8n nodes and real security tools like Subfinder, Nmap, Shodan, Trivy, MISP, and VirusTotal.
What it is
A README-style catalog of ~27 automation blueprints for n8n, grouped into Red Team/Pentest, Blue Team (SOC/DFIR/TI), AppSec/DevSecOps, and Platform/General Security. Each entry is an idea, not a ready-to-import workflow: it lists a Purpose, an Integrations list, and a one-line Flow Outline you translate into n8n nodes yourself (HTTP Request, Execute Command, IF/Switch, Function/Code, Split In Batches, Cron, Webhook, Slack/Teams, PostgreSQL/Redis, AWS/GCP/Azure, Kafka, etc.).
What it actually covers
The existing summary frames this as OSINT recon, threat-intel gathering, and monitoring automation. That undersells the offensive half. The catalog is heavily red-team and includes active-attack blueprints: Credential Spraying Orchestrator, GoPhish Campaign Launcher, Malicious Macro Build Conveyor (PoC), C2 Beacon Event Forwarder (Cobalt Strike/Havoc/Sliver webhooks), AV/EDR Evasion Test Matrix Runner, Exfiltration Simulation to Cloud, Default Creds Sweep, Windows Lateral Movement Lab Runner, and API Fuzzing Loop. Defensive/recon entries also exist (Subdomain Recon Hub, Attack Surface Change Detector, TLS/Cert Recon, Vuln Exploit Window Notifier, honeytoken/canary telemetry, Recon-to-Report PDF).
Preconditions / what you're signing up for
- Nothing is importable. There is no n8n workflow JSON — every item is a flow sketch. You do the node wiring, credential setup, and error handling. Effort is closer to "design brief" than "download and run."
- Most flows assume external accounts/tooling: Shodan/Censys, SecurityTrails, GoPhish, VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, crt.sh, Canarytokens, plus a datastore (PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB/Redis) and a notifier (Slack/Teams).
- Several offensive blueprints are explicitly marked "Lab/Test Only" or "PoC" (Credential Spraying, AV/EDR Evasion, Default Creds Sweep, Windows Lateral Movement, Email Bypass, Bluetooth/IoT). The macro builder and spraying orchestrator are the kind of thing that needs written authorization before touching anything non-lab.
What to do
- Treat this as an idea backlog, not a deliverable. If you want a defensive quick win, the low-risk recon/monitoring entries (Subdomain Recon Hub, Attack Surface Change Detector, TLS/Cert Recon, Vuln Exploit Window Notifier) map cleanly onto Cron → HTTP/Exec → DB diff → Slack and are safe to build.
- Route the offensive/lab entries through your rules-of-engagement process; don't stand them up outside an isolated lab.
Caveats
The page gives no configs, no code, and no n8n export — only integration names and one-line flows. Anything past that (auth, rate limits, secret handling for the Execute Command nodes) is left to you, and running Exec nodes against scanners/C2 tooling carries the usual command-injection and credential-exposure risk n8n does not solve for you.
Technologies named here
- n8n
- subfinder
- Amass
- DNSDB
- PassiveTotal
- Shodan
- Censys
- Nmap
- naabu
- Masscan
- GoPhish
- VirusTotal
- Cobalt Strike
- Havoc
- Sliver
- AbuseIPDB
- crt.sh
- SecurityTrails
- NVD
- Exploit-DB
- Canarytokens
- URLScan.io
- whatweb
- Wappalyzer
- ZAP
- Ffuf
- Katana
- WinRM
- OTX
- MISP
- Splunk
- Elastic
- CrowdStrike
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Okta
- Azure AD
- ANY.RUN
- Cuckoo
- HIBP
- Semgrep
- Trivy
- Grype
- Checkov
- TruffleHog
- Gitleaks
- Syft
- cosign
- MobSF
- Renovate
- Dependabot
- SwaggerHub
- Postman
- Sslscan
- SSLyze
- EPSS
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
- Caldera
- Atomic
- Vault/Secrets Manager
- Google Workspace
- Metasploit
Techniques named here
- Subdomain enumeration / attack surface recon
- Cloud bucket enumeration
- Credential spraying
- Phishing campaigns
- Malicious macro/document building
- C2 beaconing
- Decoy/canary link tracking
- Data exfiltration simulation
- AV/EDR evasion testing
- TLS/certificate recon
- Shadow IT / unmanaged app discovery
- SSRF testing
- XSS beacon callbacks
- Technology stack fingerprinting
- Default credential sweeping
- API fuzzing
- Email security bypass testing
- Lateral movement
- Phishing landing page telemetry
- Bluetooth/IoT device discovery
- WiFi Evil Twin attack simulation
- C2 infrastructure lifecycle management
- Threat intel aggregation/normalization
- IOC enrichment
- Impossible travel detection
- OAuth app risk auditing
- SIEM alert routing/deduplication
- EDR alert noise suppression
- Phishing email triage/detonation
- Ransomware canary/tripwire detection
- DNS tunneling detection
- C2 beaconing periodicity detection
- URL detonation/classification
- Abuse mailbox triage
- Threat actor infrastructure tracking
- SOAR containment actions
- Cloud configuration drift detection
- S3 public object detection
- EDR tamper detection
- Malicious macro/document risk scoring
- MFA fatigue detection
- Brute-force detection
- Insider data egress monitoring
- Malspam campaign clustering
- Incident response orchestration
- Asset risk correlation
- Credential leak monitoring
- Public paste/code leak scraping
- Endpoint baseline drift detection
- VPN anomaly detection
- Shadow admin detection
- Email authentication health checks
- Webhook abuse detection
- OT/IoT device anomaly monitoring
- TLS weak cipher scanning
- SAST on pull requests
- DAST scanning
- Software composition analysis
- Container image scanning gate
- IaC misconfiguration scanning
- Secrets scanning
- SBOM and provenance attestation
- API contract drift detection
- GraphQL introspection exposure check
- Security headers compliance checking
- File upload abuse testing
- Rate limiting / authorization fuzzing
- Mobile app security scanning
- Automated dependency remediation
- Secrets rotation tracking
- Attack replay testing
- Compliance evidence collection
- Feature flag access control testing
- CORS/redirect misconfiguration testing
- Session management validation
- CI artifact leakage testing
- Access token exposure scanning
- License compliance scanning
- Vulnerability prioritization
- Certificate expiry planning
- Backup integrity verification
- Data classification enforcement
- Purple Team Exercises
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