In this list of the 10 best Wifi Hacking Tools in Kali Linux we talk about a very popular topic: hacking wireless networks and how to prevent them from being breached.
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Wifi is often a vulnerable part of the network when it comes to hacking since the signal can be detected by anyone!
Router manufacturers and Internet service providers have WPS enabled by default, which makes wireless security and penetration testing even more important! With the following 10 Wifi Hacking Tools, we can test our own wireless network for potential security issues! Check them out:
1. Aircrack-ng
Aircrack is one of the most popular tools for WEP / WPA / WPA2 cracking. The Aircrack-ng suite contains tools for capturing packets and handshakes, for client de-authentication and for generating traffic, and tools for performing brute force and dictionary attacks! Among others, it contains the following tools:
- Aircrack-ng for wireless password cracking
- Aireplay-ng for traffic generation and client de-authentication
- Airodump-ng for packet capturing
- Airbase-ng for setting up fake access points
Aicrack-ng is available for Linux and is always included with Kali Linux. If you intend to use this tool, make sure your Wifi card is capable of packet injection.
Website: https://www.aircrack-ng.org/
Tutorial: https://www.hackingtutorials.org/wifi-hacking/how-to-hack-upc-wireless-networks/
2. Reaver
Reaver is another popular tool for hacking wireless networks and specifically targets WPS vulnerabilities. Reaver performs brute force attacks against WPS and logs PINs to recover the WPA/WPA2 passphrase. Since many router manufacturers and ISPs enable WPS by default, many routers are vulnerable.
To use Reaver you need to have good signal strength on your wireless router along with proper configuration. On average Reaver can recover the passphrase from vulnerable routers in 4 to 10 hours depending on the access point, signal strength and PIN of course! Statistically, cracking a WPS PIN has a 50% chance of succeeding in half the time.
Website: https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
Tutorial: https://www.hackingtutorials.org/wifi-hacking/pixie-dust-attack-wps-in-kali-linux-with-reaver/
3. PixieWPS
PixieWPS is a relatively new tool included with Kali Linux that also targets WPS vulnerabilities. It is written in C and is used to brute force WPS PINs offline by exploiting the low or non-existent entropy of vulnerable access points. PixieWPS requires a modified version of Reaver or Wifite to work.
Since this tool has become very popular in a short period of time, it earned the third spot on our list!
Website: https://github.com/wiire/pixiewps/
Modified Reaver: https://github.com/t6x/reaver-wps-fork-t6x
Tutorial: https://www.hackingtutorials.org/wifi-hacking/pixie-dust-attack-wps-in-kali-linux-with-reaver/
4. Wifi
Wifite is an automated tool for attacking multiple wireless networks encrypted with WEP / WPA / WPA2 and WPS. When starting Wifite, some parameters are required for Wifite to work together. It will record WPA handshakes, automatically de-authenticate connected clients and save the cracking passwords!
Website: https://code.google.com/p/wifite/
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5. Wireshark
Wireshark is one of the best network protocol analysis tools. With Wireshark you can analyze any network in detail to see what is happening. Wireshark can be used for live packet capturing, deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, browse and filter packets and is cross-platform.
Wireshark is included with Kali Linux but is also available for MAC and Windows. For some features you will need a Wifi adapter.
Website: https://www.wireshark.org
Tutorial: https://www.howtogeek.com/104278/how-to-use-wireshark-to-capture-filter-and-inspect-packets/
Or take the following online courses:
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6. oclHashcat
oclHashcat is not exclusively a WiFi hacking tool and is not included in Kali Linux but it can perform brute force and dictionary attacks on captured handshakes very quickly when using a GPU. After using Aircrack-ng or any other tool for WPA handshake capturing you can crack it with oclHashcat using your GPU. Using a GPU with oclHashcat, instead of a CPU with Aircrack-ng, will speed up the cracking process a lot. An average GPU can try about 50,000 combinations per second with oclHashcat.
oclHashcat is available for Windows and Linux and has a version for AMD and Nvidia graphics cards.
Website: https://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/
Tutorial: https://www.hackingtutorials.org/wifi-hacking/cracking-wpa-oclhashcat-gpu/
7. Fern Wifi Cracker
Fern Wifi Cracker is a wireless security auditing and attack tool written in Python. Fern Wifi Cracker is the first WiFi hacking tool on this list to have a graphical user interface. It is capable of cracking and recovering WEP, WPA and WPS keys and has tools to perform MiTM attacks.
It is included in Kali Linux.
Website: https://code.google.com/p/fern-wifi-cracker/
8. Wash
Wash is a tool that detects whether an access point has WPS enabled or not. It can also be used to check if an access point has WPS locked after a series of attempts with Reaver.
Wash is included in the Reaver package and comes as a standard tool in Kali Linux.
Website: https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
Tutorial: https://www.hackingtutorials.org/wifi-hacking/wps-wifi-networks-with-kali-linux-wash/
9. Crunch
Crunch is a very good and easy to use tool for creating custom wordlists that can be used in dictionary attacks. Since the success rate of dictionary attacks depends on the quality of the wordlist, you cannot avoid creating your own wordlists.
Crunch can also be directly adapted with other tools, such as Aircrack-ng.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crunch-wordlist
Tutorial: https://www.hackingtutorials.org/general-tutorials/password-list-with-crunch/
10. Macchanger
Macchanger is a small utility that can be used to spoof your own MAC address to a random MAC address or you can make your own. Spoofing your MAC address for WiFi hacking may be necessary to avoid MAC filters or to mask your identity on a wireless network.
Website: https://github.com/alobbs/macchanger
Tutorial: https://www.hackingtutorials.org/general-tutorials/mac-address-spoofing-with-macchanger/
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