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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

By : Cameron Buchanan
Book Image

Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

By: Cameron Buchanan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Disclaimer
Preface
Index

Time for action – WPS attack


Follow the given instructions to get started:

  1. Before we attack a WPS-enabled access point, we need to create one. The TP-Link we use has this feature turned on by default, which is worrying but handy. To double-check this, we can log onto our router and click on WPS. It should look like the following:

  2. Now we've confirmed that it's ready. We need to set up our target. We need to set up our testing environment. We're going to use the Wash tool, and Wash requires a monitoring interface to function. As we have done many times before, we need to set up one with the following command:

    airmon-ng start wlan0
    

    The output will be as follows:

  3. We have a monitoring interface set up as mon0, and we can call Wash with the following command:

    wash --ignore-fcs -i mon0
    

    The ignore fcs option is due to an issue with an expected format for requests that wash causes:

  4. Wash will display all the nearby devices that support WPS as well as whether they have WPS active or unlocked and what version...