Aircrack
From charlesreid1
Link: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng
Aircrack is listed as one of the Kali Top 10 programs.
It can be used to capture wifi handshakes, which contain the information needed to brute-force the wifi passsword. It can also be used to do the brute-forcing of handshakes itself. When used in conjunction with other specialized tools for generating password permutations based on patterns, like John the Ripper, this becomes a powerful password-cracking tool in addition to a wireless-sniffing tool.
Aircrack/WEP Cracking - This is a great introductory exercise to using aircrack. Cracking a WEP network should only take a few minutes.
Aircrack/WPA Cracking - While more challenging than cracking a WEP network, this can also go very quickly if a weak password is used.
Aircrack/Packet Injection Testing - Before doing packet injection, you may want to run some of these tests.
Some notes on using Aircrack with John the Ripper: Aircrack and John the Ripper
The big dumb undocumented but extremely useful flag: -l [filename]
will log any cracked passwords to a file. Don't forget to use this flag!! Otherwise, all that time you spent brute-forcing the password will be lost if you accidentally close your terminal window (oops)
Flags
aircrack-ng a suite of tools for wireless cracking.
aircrack-ng Many Ways to Crack a Wifi: Cracking Wifi Aircrack Benchmarking: Aircrack/Benchmarking WEP Attacks with Aircrack: Aircrack/WEP Cracking WPA Attacks with Aircrack: Aircrack/WPA Cracking Aircrack Hardware: Aircrack/Packet Injection Testing Harvesting Wireless Network Information
airodump-ng Basic Usage of Airodump
Category:Security · Category:Wireless · Category:Passwords
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