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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide - Third Edition

By : Cameron Buchanan, Daniel W. Dieterle, Vivek Ramachandran
Book Image

Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide - Third Edition

By: Cameron Buchanan, Daniel W. Dieterle, Vivek Ramachandran

Overview of this book

As wireless networks become ubiquitous in our lives, wireless penetration testing has become a key skill in the repertoire of the professional penetration tester. This has been highlighted again recently with the discovery of the KRACK attack which enables attackers to potentially break into Wi-Fi networks encrypted with WPA2. The Kali Linux security distribution comes with a myriad of tools used for networking attacks and detecting security loopholes. Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Third Edition has been updated to Kali Linux 2017.3 with the latest methodologies, including full coverage of the KRACK attack and how to defend against it. The book presents wireless pentesting from the ground up, introducing all elements of penetration testing with each new technology. You'll learn various wireless testing methodologies by example, from the basics of wireless routing and encryption through to detailed coverage of hacking methods and attacks such as the Hirte and Caffe Latte.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
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 wlan0mon, and we can call Wash with the following command:

    wash -i wlan0mon
    
  4. Wash will display all the nearby devices that support WPS as well as whether they have WPS active or unlocked and what version is running:

  5. We can see the Wireless Lab network supports WPS. It uses version 1 and it's not locked...