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OSCP · CEH · CREST · Elite Ethical Hackers · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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An Attacker.
Defend Like
Pristine.

Pristine deploys Saudi Arabia's most advanced penetration testing and red team capability — OSCP, CEH, and CREST-certified ethical hackers conducting ruthless, real-world adversarial assessments across your entire attack surface. Zero false positives. 48-hour bilingual reports. NCA ECC and SAMA mapped findings.

4,200+Vulnerabilities Found 2024
ZeroFalse Positives — Guaranteed
48 hrsReport Delivery SLA
OSCP+CRESTCertified Testers
PRISTINE PENTEST ENGINE · LIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTIVE
// Assessment: Saudi Bank Infrastructure
PHASE 1Recon complete — 847 assets identified via OSINTDONE
PHASE 2Scanning: 12 critical CVEs identified — manual verifyingIN PROGRESS
PHASE 3Exploitation: CVE-2024-XXXX — RCE on external web serverCRITICAL
PHASE 4Post-exploit: Domain Admin via Kerberoasting — 47 paths foundCRITICAL
PHASE 5Report drafting: AR+EN bilingual — delivery in 48 hrsON TRACK
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Critical
7
High
0
False Pos.
OSCP Certified
CREST Member
CEH Certified
VAPT
Network Pentesting
Web App Testing
Mobile App Testing
Cloud Pentesting
OT/SCADA Testing
Red Team Operations
APT34 Emulation
Social Engineering
Physical Security
NCA ECC Mapped
SAMA Aligned
Zero False Positives
48hr Reports
OSCP Certified
CREST Member
CEH Certified
VAPT
Network Pentesting
Web App Testing
Mobile App Testing
Cloud Pentesting
OT/SCADA Testing
Red Team Operations
APT34 Emulation
Social Engineering
Physical Security
NCA ECC Mapped
SAMA Aligned
Zero False Positives
48hr Reports

Saudi Arabia's Threat Landscape Demands More Than Vulnerability Scans

Saudi Arabia is the most cyber-attacked nation in the Arab world — with state-sponsored actors including APT34/OilRig, Seedworm, and active ransomware syndicates targeting government entities, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure. Automated scanners generate lists. Pristine's certified ethical hackers break in.

Our penetration testing methodology deploys real attacker tradecraft, manual exploit development, and adversarial thinking — finding and proving the vulnerabilities that put your organisation at genuine risk of breach. Every finding is validated by a human expert, risk-rated by real-world exploitability, and mapped to the NCA ECC or SAMA control it violates.

  • OSCP, CEH, CISM, and CREST-certified penetration testers — not junior IT staff running scanners
  • 100% manual validation — every finding confirmed by a human expert, zero false positives guaranteed
  • Bilingual reports in Arabic and English — board-ready and regulator-ready from day one
  • NCA ECC and SAMA control mapping on every finding — compliance value built into every engagement
  • Retesting included — we verify your team fixed what we found at no additional cost
  • Data stays in Saudi Arabia — full PDPL data sovereignty throughout every engagement
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4,200+

Vulnerabilities Found

Across Saudi organisations in 2024 — manual, validated, zero false positives

68%

Hidden for 12+ Months

Of Saudi organisations had critical vulnerabilities undiscovered for over a year

100%

Manually Validated

Every single finding confirmed by an OSCP/CEH certified tester — zero false positives

48 hrs

Report Turnaround

From testing completion to bilingual Arabic/English report delivery — fastest in Saudi market

Full-Spectrum Penetration Testing Services

From network infrastructure to critical OT systems — our certified testers cover every attack vector that could expose your Saudi operations to breach.

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Network Infrastructure Pentesting

Comprehensive external and internal network penetration testing — mapping your network topology, identifying misconfigurations, unpatched systems, weak credentials, and exploitable vulnerabilities across firewalls, routers, switches, VPNs, and Active Directory environments.

External PentestInternal PentestActive DirectoryVPNFirewall
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Web Application Pentesting

Manual and automated assessment of web applications against OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 — covering injection attacks, authentication flaws, broken access control, IDOR, XXE, SSRF, and business logic vulnerabilities. Full API testing included.

OWASP Top 10API TestingAuth BypassSQLiXSSSSRF
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Mobile App Testing (iOS & Android)

Static (SAST) and dynamic (DAST) analysis of iOS and Android apps — reverse engineering, certificate pinning bypass, insecure data storage, runtime manipulation, and backend API security testing. Critical for Saudi banking and fintech.

iOSAndroidSASTDASTAPIReverse Engineering
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Cloud Penetration Testing

Real-world attack simulation against AWS, Azure, and GCP — IAM policy misconfigurations, storage exposure, container escapes, serverless exploits, cross-account privilege escalation, and cloud-native service abuse. NCA CCC aligned.

AWSAzureGCPIAM AbuseContainer EscapeNCA CCC
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OT / ICS / SCADA Pentesting

Specialist OT security assessments for Saudi energy, petrochemical, utilities, and manufacturing — passive and non-intrusive OT testing using protocol-aware tooling. Zero production impact. IEC 62443, NERC CIP, and SACS-002 aligned.

IEC 62443SCADAModbusDNP3SACS-002Zero Impact
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Social Engineering & Phishing

Targeted phishing campaigns, vishing attacks, USB drop simulations, and physical security assessments — testing the human attack surface using the same techniques employed by Saudi-targeting threat actors.

PhishingVishingUSB DropPhysicalHuman Factor
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Red Team Operations

Full adversarial simulation campaigns emulating specific threat actors — APT34/OilRig TTP emulation for energy clients, financial cybercrime group TTPs for banks. Custom C2 infrastructure, multi-stage attack chains, full kill chain simulation.

Red TeamAPT34 EmulationC2 InfrastructureMulti-StageTIBER-EU
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Wireless Network Pentesting

Comprehensive wireless security assessment — WPA2/WPA3 cracking, rogue AP detection, evil twin attacks, PMKID attacks, Bluetooth and BLE vulnerabilities, and wireless client attacks across enterprise and industrial wireless.

WPA3Rogue APBluetoothBLE802.11PMKID
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Physical Security Assessment

On-site physical penetration testing — tailgating, lock picking, RFID cloning, badge duplication, server room intrusion, and insider threat simulation. Pristine assessors have breached bank vaults and government server rooms across the GCC.

TailgatingRFID CloneLock PickInsider SimPhysical Access

Comprehensive Coverage. Every Standard Met.

Every Pristine penetration test is mapped to international methodology standards — PTES, OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, and CVSS 3.1 — and cross-referenced with NCA ECC and SAMA control frameworks so that findings directly support your compliance programme.

PTESOWASP Testing GuideNIST SP 800-115MITRE ATT&CKCVSS 3.1NCA ECC MappedSAMA AlignedPCI DSS Req 11.4ISO 27001 Clause 6IEC 62443OWASP MobileTIBER-EU
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PENTEST COVERAGE METRICS
✓ ZERO FALSE POS.
Network Infrastructure
94%
Web Applications
98%
Cloud Security
91%
Mobile Applications
95%
OT / SCADA
88%
Social Engineering
96%
Red Team Operations
90%

Five-Phase Adversarial Methodology

Our structured testing methodology follows PTES, OWASP, NIST SP 800-115, and MITRE ATT&CK — ensuring comprehensive, repeatable, and legally defensible results on every engagement.

Intelligence Gathering & Reconnaissance

Phase 01

Before a single packet is sent, our team conducts exhaustive passive and active intelligence gathering — building a complete picture of your attack surface from the adversary's perspective. We use the same OSINT tools and tradecraft as nation-state actors targeting Saudi infrastructure.

  • OSINT collection: Shodan, Censys, LinkedIn, DNS records, certificate transparency logs
  • Dark web monitoring for leaked credentials and prior breach data related to your organisation
  • Technology fingerprinting: web stack, server versions, email infrastructure, cloud footprint
  • Employee enumeration and social engineering target profiling
  • Supply chain and third-party vendor mapping
  • Saudi-specific intelligence: NCA CERT advisories, sector alerts, and Arabic-language open sources
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Phase 01 METRICS
✓ VERIFIED
OSINT Coverage
98%
Dark Web Intel
95%
Tech Fingerprinting
99%
Subdomain Discovery
97%
Credential Leak Check
100%

Scanning, Enumeration & Vulnerability Analysis

Phase 02

With the intelligence picture established, our engineers conduct systematic scanning and enumeration — identifying all live hosts, open ports, running services, OS versions, and known vulnerabilities. Every scanner finding is manually verified before being carried forward.

  • Full port scanning: TCP/UDP, ICMP, custom protocol discovery
  • Service version fingerprinting and banner grabbing
  • Authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability scanning (Nessus, Qualys, OpenVAS)
  • Manual verification of every scanner finding — eliminating false positives completely
  • CVE cross-referencing with NVD and Saudi CERT advisories
  • CVSS 3.1 base scoring with Saudi-context environmental adjustments
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Phase 02 METRICS
✓ VERIFIED
Port Coverage
100%
Manual Verification
100%
CVE Currency
99%
False Positive Rate
0%
CVSS Accuracy
96%

Exploitation & Proof of Compromise

Phase 03

We don't just identify vulnerabilities — we prove them. OSCP and CEH-certified testers attempt controlled exploitation, demonstrating real business impact. Custom exploit development for novel vulnerabilities when required.

  • Controlled exploitation within agreed scope — no service disruption
  • Custom exploit development for zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities
  • Screenshot and video evidence of every successful compromise
  • Business impact demonstration: data exfiltration, ransomware simulation, pivot paths
  • Metasploit, custom Python/Ruby tooling, Burp Suite Pro, and proprietary tools
  • Saudi-specific payload crafting to bypass local EDR solutions
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Phase 03 METRICS
✓ VERIFIED
Exploit Success Rate
94%
Custom Exploits
78%
EDR Bypass
82%
Zero Service Disruption
100%
Business Impact Proven
100%

Post-Exploitation & Lateral Movement

Phase 04

Initial access is only the beginning. Red teamers simulate the full kill chain — establishing persistence, escalating privileges, moving laterally, and demonstrating the true depth of compromise a sophisticated attacker would achieve.

  • Privilege escalation: local admin → domain admin → Enterprise Admin paths
  • Lateral movement via pass-the-hash, Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, DCOM
  • Persistence mechanisms: scheduled tasks, registry keys, WMI subscriptions, DLL hijacking
  • Active Directory attacks: DCSync, Golden/Silver Ticket, BloodHound AD mapping
  • Data exfiltration simulation — proving access to your most sensitive assets
  • C2 channel establishment and beacon persistence testing
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Phase 04 METRICS
✓ VERIFIED
AD Attack Coverage
95%
Pivot Path Depth
88%
Persistence Techniques
92%
MITRE ATT&CK Coverage
91%
Data Exfil Simulated
100%

Reporting & Executive Communication

Phase 05

Our deliverables set the standard for the Saudi market — delivered within 48 hours of testing completion as a dual-audience bilingual report: Arabic and English simultaneously, board-ready and regulator-ready.

  • Executive Summary: risk posture, top findings, NCA ECC gap scorecard — Arabic and English
  • Technical Report: every finding with CVSSv3.1 score, proof-of-concept, and remediation steps
  • Attack Chain Narrative: step-by-step story of how attackers would breach your organisation
  • NCA ECC and SAMA control mapping on every applicable finding
  • Free retest within 30 days to verify all critical and high findings are remediated
  • Remediation workshop with your technical team — included for all Standard and Premium engagements
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Phase 05 METRICS
✓ VERIFIED
Delivery SLA
100%
NCA ECC Mapping
100%
Arabic Quality
100%
Report Clarity
99%
Retest Success
100%

Penetration Testing Packages

Three structured packages for every Saudi engagement scope — from focused single-system assessment to comprehensive red team operations.

// Package 01
VAPT Essential

Focused penetration test for a defined scope — web application, network, or cloud environment. Ideal for compliance-driven testing or first engagement.

  • Defined scope assessment (single domain)
  • External or internal network OR web application
  • Full OSCP-certified tester
  • CVSS 3.1 findings with proof-of-concept
  • NCA ECC / SAMA control mapping
  • 48-hour bilingual report (AR + EN)
  • Free retest of critical findings
  • 7–10 day delivery
Enquire — Essential →
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Red Team Operations

Full adversarial simulation — APT34 or threat-actor-specific TTP emulation, custom C2 infrastructure, multi-stage attack chain across your entire estate.

  • Full-scope red team (all attack surfaces)
  • Named threat actor TTP emulation (APT34, etc.)
  • Custom C2 infrastructure and implants
  • Physical security assessment included
  • Social engineering campaign included
  • Multi-stage kill chain — persistence through exfil
  • Purple team debrief with Blue Team
  • Board-level red team report (Arabic)
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Why Saudi Organisations Choose Pristine Pentest

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Zero False Positives — Guaranteed

Every finding is manually confirmed by an OSCP or CEH-certified tester before it appears in your report. No scanner output masquerading as expertise. No findings your team can't reproduce. Zero false positives — contractually guaranteed.

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Arabic Reports — First Class

All Pristine pentest reports are delivered in Arabic and English simultaneously — not translated, but written natively. NCA examiners and SAMA supervisors reviewing your penetration test results see professional Arabic documentation.

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Real Attacker Tradecraft

APT34 TTP emulation, custom C2 infrastructure, Kerberoasting, BloodHound AD mapping — Pristine's red team uses the same techniques as the threat actors targeting Saudi Arabia. Not a compliance checkbox.

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NCA ECC & SAMA Mapped

Every finding is cross-referenced with the NCA ECC sub-control or SAMA domain it violates — turning your penetration test into a compliance gap analysis that directly supports your audit programme.

48-Hour Report Delivery

From testing completion to full bilingual report delivery in 48 hours — the fastest in the Saudi market. Critical when compliance deadlines, board meetings, or NCA submissions require rapid turnaround.

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Free Retest Included

Pristine retests all critical and high findings after remediation at no additional cost — verifying that your team's fixes actually work and that no regression vulnerabilities were introduced.

What Our Pentest Clients Say

★★★★★

Pristine's red team simulated an APT34-style campaign against our government network. They achieved Domain Admin in 72 hours using techniques we had never tested against. The BloodHound analysis revealed 47 attack paths we had no idea existed — all eliminated within 30 days. The Arabic technical report was accepted by NCA examiners without clarification. Outstanding.

KA
Khalid Al-Anazi
CISO, Saudi Government Ministry
★★★★★

We required PCI DSS Req 11.4 penetration testing and NCA ECC testing evidence simultaneously. Pristine delivered a single engagement that satisfied both — the report was formatted for NCA ECC submission and the PCI DSS Req 11.4 attestation simultaneously. Zero false positives across 847 findings. 48-hour delivery as promised.

HM
Hamad Al-Mutairi
CISO, Saudi Commercial Bank
★★★★★

Pristine's web application test found a SQL injection vulnerability in our customer portal that had been there for 3 years — invisible to our annual automated scans. They demonstrated full customer data extraction in a controlled environment. The fix was deployed in 48 hours. The manual approach Pristine uses is simply better than any scanner-based alternative.

SA
Sara Al-Mohammed
Head of Application Security, Saudi Fintech

Penetration Testing FAQs

A vulnerability scan uses automated tools to identify known vulnerabilities by matching software versions and configurations against a database. It cannot chain vulnerabilities together, simulate attacker logic, or demonstrate real-world business impact. A penetration test uses certified human ethical hackers to manually exploit vulnerabilities, chain multiple issues together to achieve compromise, demonstrate the actual impact of each finding, and identify vulnerabilities that scanners completely miss — including business logic flaws, chained attacks, and custom exploit scenarios. Scanners generate lists. Pristine's testers break in.
Duration depends heavily on scope. A focused web application penetration test (single application, no API) typically takes 3–5 days. A comprehensive network + web + cloud assessment for a mid-size Saudi organisation typically takes 8–15 days of testing. A full-scope red team engagement can run 3–6 weeks. Pristine provides a precise timeline during the free scoping call — based on your specific scope, number of hosts, and testing objectives. Report delivery is 48 hours after testing completes, regardless of scope size.
Pristine conducts all penetration tests within agreed scope boundaries and with explicit care to avoid service disruption. Testing is conducted with monitoring to detect any unintended service impact, and all exploitation is done in a controlled manner that demonstrates proof of vulnerability without causing damage. For particularly sensitive environments (production databases, critical OT systems), Pristine uses test environments or passive techniques that eliminate any disruption risk. In 800+ Saudi engagements, Pristine has never caused unplanned service disruption.
NCA ECC Domain 3 (Cybersecurity Resilience) requires organisations to conduct annual penetration testing and vulnerability assessments of their information systems. Pristine structures all pentest reports to directly satisfy this NCA evidence requirement — including the NCA ECC sub-control reference, testing methodology documentation, finding severity assessment, and remediation verification. Every Pristine pentest report is accepted by NCA examiners as Domain 3 compliance evidence.
Pristine's penetration testing team collectively holds OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), OSCE3 (Offensive Security Certified Expert 3), CRTO (Certified Red Team Operator), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), CREST CRT, and GPEN (GIAC Penetration Tester) certifications. All standard penetration tests are conducted by OSCP or CEH minimum. Red team engagements are led by OSCE3 or CRTO-certified operators. We never assign junior or uncertified staff to client penetration testing engagements.
Yes — Pristine has a specialist OT/ICS penetration testing capability for Saudi energy, petrochemical, utilities, and manufacturing clients. OT testing uses exclusively non-intrusive, passive techniques — we never inject traffic or communicate with PLCs, DCS, or SCADA systems in production environments. Zero production impact is contractually guaranteed for all OT engagements. OT testing is aligned to IEC 62443, NERC CIP, and Saudi Aramco SACS-002 requirements, and the resulting report satisfies NCA ECC OT sub-controls.

Break Your Defences
Before Attackers Do.

Request a free penetration testing scoping call — our OSCP-certified team will design a custom assessment programme at no cost. Zero obligation, full transparency.

📍 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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🔒 All engagements under NDA · Data stays in Saudi Arabia · PDPL compliant

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