So you’re interested in Hacking and Cracking? Or just want some free WiFi! Either way you have found the right place to begin.

Apr 24, 2020 Boot up Kali and either navigate to ‘ wifte ‘ in the applications tab or open up a terminal and type in ‘ wifite ‘. Immediately you will see a list of WiFi SSID’s begin to populate in the terminal window. The key thing to look out for is the amount of connected clients (as we are trying to capture a handshake between the client. WiFite is a Penetration Testing Tool under the GNU General Public License version 2 and in this article, we will present How To Install And Run Wifite On Kali Linux.

Wifite is a tool to audit WEP or WPA encrypted wireless networks. It uses aircrack-ng, pyrit, reaver, tshark tools to perform the audit. This tool is customizable to be automated with only a few arguments and can be trusted to run without supervision. Step1: Check Wifite. Mar 05, 2019 There are many ways to attack a Wi-Fi network. The type of encryption, manufacturer settings, and the number of clients connected all dictate how easy a target is to attack and what method would work best. Wifite2 is a powerful tool that automates Wi-Fi hacking, allowing you to select targets in range and let the script choose the best strategy for each network. Jun 14, 2017 WEP is an old and depreceated way of protecting WiFi passwords, so if you find one, you are in luck. WEP takes substantially less time. This is easily automated in Wifite, and it even uses multiple attacks against routers to get the password. You only need around 10 to 120 minutes to crack WEP, maybe longer.

Today we are going to walk through the steps needed to crack WiFi access points using a combination of wifite and Aircrack-ng. In this guide we will go through how to capture and crack the handshakes to reveal the WiFi Password.

Firstly, you will need a Kali machine! For the purpose of this guide I am using a vanilla install of Kali and am running all of my sessions and commands as a Root user, if you are using a standard account then ‘Sudo’ will be required before most, if not all commands being executed.

The installation of Kali is on a Laptop with a compatible WiFi adapter which allows for monitor mode, this is necessary to capture packets ‘in the air’.

Boot up Kali and either navigate to ‘wifte‘ in the applications tab or open up a terminal and type in ‘wifite‘.

Immediately you will see a list of WiFi SSID’s begin to populate in the terminal window. The key thing to look out for is the amount of connected clients (as we are trying to capture a handshake between the client and the AP).

After choosing the Access Point in wifite in this case ‘EternalWIFI’, it will attempt to deauth the clients connected (disconnect the Clients). Those clients will then try to re-establish a connection and in doing so, wifite will capture the initial handshake packets which contain the password hashes. The more clients that are connected to the AP the better the chance and more quicker wifite will capture the handshake packets.

When a Handshake packet is captured, Wifite will try a default/simple password list. Its not bad and has worked for me a few times on individuals that tether there phones and change their passwords to something very simple, you can of course edit this list to include more passwords.

As you can see from the above, wifite has managed to crack the simple password which is ‘password’.

This however, will not always work and so we will need to crack the hash against a password list. We are going to do this by using aircrack-ng and feeding a password list against the capture handshake hash.

So, we are going to need passwords, a list of passwords to run against the hash.

If you need some password files I have zipped a few up HERE, I have found these on the Internet and take no credit for them!

However, the best way to get wordlists is by creating them yourself on Crunch. If you suspect that someone has changed their password to something ‘personal’ then it might be worth running CUPP (Common User Password Profiler) for a list.

Kali also comes with a default list (rockyou.txt) located in: /usr/share/wordlists

When hashing against a list, the more you know about the network, router and users can help a lot. First things first would be to look at the SSID (most SSID’s have the brand of router included within the name) and this allows you to understand how many characters the default WiFi code is and the combination of letters, numbers, caps. An example of this is:

Default Iphone Hotspots/Tether will use 13 Lowercase only with Numbers (No Symbols or Caps). This information will allow us to filter our wordlists and create new wordlist around this.

Once you have downloaded or created a password list, it’s time to run this against the captured hash using aircrack-ng. The Syntax for aircrack-ng is:

aircrack-ng capturedpackets.cap -w wordlist.txt

When we execute this, aircrack-ng will begin hashing the passwords from the list against the handshake password hash.

If the password is in the list then it will eventually strike a match.

As you can see, the WiFi password is ‘pleaseletmein’. While a simple password, this one wasn’t in the common password file in wifite and required the use of our own wordlist in order to crack.

Make sure you exit monitor mode on your WiFi adapter so you can test if the passphrase works.

So there we have it, the WiFi password. Please note that the cracking speed will be based upon your machines performance and it goes without saying that if the passphrase isn’t in your wordlist then you wont find the password. So make sure you build out specific wordlists dependent on the WiFi AP you want to crack. There are many other tools that you can use for the capture of the handshake and the cracking of the handshake. I prefer wifite as its easy to use and great for beginners and aircrack-ng has easy to remember syntax for piping a handshake to a wordlist.

Please use this knowledge responsibly and make sure you have consent to execute attacks such as this against someones Access Point. I take no responsibility for misuse of this information.

Please feel free to put any questions or comments in the section below.

Written and Executed by Gennaro Migliaccio

Proofed, Edited and otherwise scrutinized by Summer-Jade Greenaway

Disclaimer: What you do with this information is up to you. You are fully responsible for what you do with this info, and how you use it. HackMethod is not responsible for your actions. Please do not hack Wifi points that you are not allowed to.

NOTE: I do advise having a USB WiFi adapter, and an extra point would be to get a great one like the ALFA AWUS036NHR or AWUS051NH. Although any card would do as long as it supports monitor mode and packet injection.

Introduction

When it comes to the world of WiFi hacking, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Skilled hackers can combine attacks together for increased efficiency, and can also judge on which attack is best to use given a particular situation. By the end of this guide you should have an overall idea on the types of attacks that you can use against any WiFi-enabled AP or router.

Getting Started

The tool that this guide will be using is Wifite.

Now I wont be including how to do it using any other tools, because this should work just fine. I’ll leave the exploration up to you.

To get started, install Wifite on your machine by following the installation instructions that are stated here.

Scanning for Wifi points

Simply run wifite.py -i <wlan interface here *NOT IN MONITOR MODE*> or if you didnt understand the previous command simply use wifite.py and it will begin scanning for nearby access points and their features (Encryption method and if WPS is enabled or not).

NOTE: I always recommend to spoof your mac address using the --mac flag to the program or macchanger. Its for your safety.

Here are the 3 types of targets you can find:

WEP protected routers
WPA/WPA2 protected routers
Open routers

Now within those categories, you can find a feature