A MAC address is the unique identity of user who tries to authenticate over a wireless network. Often as a best practice users prefer to Mac-filter their networks to protect themselves from attackers; however it is very easy to change a Mac address and attack the network. In this recipe, we are going to see how one can change the Mac address of a wireless card.
A wireless card and a Kali machine are required to perform this exercise. In this recipe, we will scan the available network and the devices connected to it, after which we will change the Mac ID of the wireless card to that of the host connected to the network.
- Before we begin, ensure that you stop
Monitor
mode, enabled in the previous recipe, by issuing the stop monitor command on its interface:
airmon-ng stop wlan0mon
- Let us check our MAC address for our device, using the following command:
ifconfig wlan0
The output will be as shown in the following screenshot...