In this section, we are going to discuss various tools and techniques that can assist a penetration tester in successfully capturing packets on a network.
One of the most popular wireless-cracking tools is Aircrack-ng. Aircrack-ng is actually a suite of multiple security auditing tools specifically used for wireless networks.
The Aircrack-ng suite of tools allows a penetration tester to monitor wireless networks, capture packets in the air, execute various types of attacks, create rogue access points (APs), and perform both WEP and WPA cracking.
In Chapter 13, Selecting a Kali Device and Hardware, we speak briefly about using external wireless network interface cards (NICs), such as ALFA Network AWUS036NHA. How can you determine whether a wireless dongle or WLAN NIC is capable of monitoring or performing packet injection on a target network? Within aircrack-ng, there exists a tool called airmon-ng, which allows you to test a wireless NIC for...