Showing posts with label dictionary attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dictionary attack. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

WPA/WPA2 cracking using Dictionary attack with Aircrack-ng

By Shashwat October 06, 2015 , , , , , ,
  • Disclaimer - TLDR; some stuff here can be used to carry out illegal activity, our intention is, however, to educate
WPA cracking involves 2 steps-

  1. Capture the handshake
  2. Crack the handshake to get the password

We have already covered WPA-handshake capture in a lot of detail. In this tutorial we will actually crack a WPA handshake file using dictionary attack. Our tool of choice for this tutorial will be aircrack-ng. We will not bother about the speed of various tools in this post. However, in the next post, we will compare various CPU and GPU algorithms for WPA hash cracking. I'd like to add that I already know the password of the network so I'll simply put it into the dictionary that I'm using. A full fledged dictionary attack is quite time consuming.

Also, a lot of people are facing problems with monitor mode in Kali 2.0. I have a post regarding that coming soon.
PS: If you stumbled on this post out of nowhere and find it hard to follow, I recommend you go through some of the easier posts first. How to use this site is a good place to begin.
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