In this recipe we will use Gerix to automate a wireless network attack. Gerix is an automated GUI for AirCrack. Gerix comes installed by default on Kali Linux and will speed up your wireless network cracking efforts.
A supported wireless card configured for packet injection will be required to complete this recipe. In the case of a wireless card, packet injection involves sending a packet, or injecting it, onto an already established connection between two parties.
Let's begin the process of performing an automated wireless network crack with Gerix by downloading it.
Using
wget
, navigate to the following website to download Gerix.wget https://bitbucket.org/Skin36/gerix-wifi-cracker-pyqt4/downloads/gerix-wifi-cracker-master.rar
Once the file has been downloaded, we now need to extract the data from the RAR file.
unrar x gerix-wifi-cracker-master.rar
Now, to keep things consistent, let's move the Gerix folder to the
/usr/share
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