wifi Hacking

Understand the basics of Hacking with kali Linux

Recently i had learn how to crack wifi(WPA2)using kali linux .It will be a good experience for you guys to start studying hacking.

kali linux is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive Security , a provider of world-class information security training and penetration testing services.it is constantly evolving with new features being added to the distribution all the time.

At first,

what is Wifi (WPA2) & (WEP)

WPA stand for Wi-Fi Protected Access

WEP stand for wired Equivalent Privacy

Requirements: kali linux installed laptop, target wifi router

Let’s start

Step 1:

The first step is to verify the router configuration. Normally in a real penetration test we would not have this option, but since this is a home lab I have a little more flexibility.

In this case the lab access point is securing the wireless network Wireless Lab with WPA2-PSK. It using the passphrase Cisco123. You can use any wireless router to setup your wireless lab.

Setup a old router and log into it setting it up as WEP for wireless security to use as a test router. Have one other computer, tablet, or smartphone connected to it wirelessly since the encrypted data between the two will need to be captured.

The basic idea of this attack is to capture as much traffic as possible using airodump-ng. Each data packet has an associated three byte Initialization Vector called IV’s. After the attack is launched the goal is to get as many encrypted data packets or IV’s as possible then use aircrack-ng on the captured file and show the password.

Step 2:

The iwconfig command will show any wireless cards in the system. I am using a RealTek wireless card. Linux ships with the RealTek drivers, making it a Linux plug and play wireless card.

The operating system recognizes a wireless interface named wlan0.

Step 3:

My next step will be to enable the wireless interface. This is accomplished issuing the ifconfig wlan0 up command.

Step 4:

I need to understand what wireless networks my wireless card sees. I issue the iwlist wlan0 scanning command.

This command forces the wireless card to scan and report on all wireless networks in the vicinity. You can see from this example it found my target network: Wireless Lab. It also found the MAC address of my access point: 0E:18:1A:36:D6:22. This is important to note because I want to limit my attack to this specific access point (to ensure we are not attacking or breaking anyone else’s password). Secondly, we see the AP is transmitting on channel 36.This is important because it allows us to be specific on what wireless channel we will want our wireless card to monitor and capture traffic from.

Step 5:

The next step is to change the wireless card to monitoring mode. This will allow the wireless card to examine all the packets in the air.

We do this by creating a monitor interface using airmon-ng. Issue the airmon-ng command to verify airmon-ng sees your wireless card. From that point create the monitor interface by issuing the command: airmon-ng start wlan0. Next, run the ifconfig command to verify the monitor interface is created. We can see mon0 is created.

Now verify the interface mon0 has been created.

To capture the handshake you are dependent on monitoring a legitimate client authenticate to the network. However, it does not mean you have to wait for a client to legitimately authenticate. You can force a client to re-authenticate (which will happen automatically with most clients when you force a deauthorization).

When you see the WPA Handshake Command you know you have captured an valid handshak.

Step 6:

Use airodump-ng to capture the WPA2 handshake. The attacker will have to catch someone in the act of authenticating to get a valid capture. Airodump-ng will display a valid handshake when it captures it. It will display the handshake confirmation in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

Note: We will manually connect to the wireless network to force a handshake.

We used the following command: airodump-ng mon0 — -bssid 20:aa:4b:1f:b0:10 (to capture packets from our AP) — –channel 6 (to limit channel hopping) — –write BreakingWPA2 (the name of the file we will save to)

airodump-ng mon0 — -bssid AB:00:D0:00:61:FA — –channel 36 — –write BreakingWPA2

NOTE: Kali does have built-in worldlists in: /usr/share/worldlist

In this blog we created a file named “sample.lst” and added the word Cisco123 in it.

Success:

If the password is found in the dictionary file then Aircrack-ng will crack it.

The BreakingWPA2–01.cap file was created when we ran the airodump-ng command. The valid WPA2 handshake airodump captured is stored in the BreakingWPA2–01.cap file.

Backtrack 5 ships with a basic dictionary. The dictionary file darkc0de.lst is a popular worldlist that ships with BackTrack5. We added our password Cisco123 in this file to make the test run a little smoother.

Many attackers use large dictionaries that increase their chances of cracking a passwords. Many dictionaries contain passwords from real users and websites that have been cracked and posted on the Internet. Some sophisticated dictionaries combine multiple languages, permutations of each word, and key words and phrases from social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Step 7:

We will use aircrack-ng with the dictionary file to crack the password. Your chances of breaking the password are dependent on the password file.

The command on is: aircrack-ng “name of cap file you created” -w “name of your dictionary file”.

Since we are using a simple password, it is easy to capture this one. It may take server minutes to Hours depending upon the complication of the password. Try it for education purpose.