Sometimes, when you are on a network, you want to check what is happening on it. Mainly in large companies, when an employer wants to check who is doing what on his network. For such cases, there are some Wi-fi Hacking tools that allow users to analyze the packets and see what other users are doing.
- Aircrack-ng
Aircrack-ng is one of the most popular password cracking tools you can use for WEP and WPA 802.11a / b / g. Aircrack uses the best algorithms for recovering wireless passwords by capturing packets. Once enough packets are collected, it attempts to recover the password. To speed up the attack, it applies a typical FMS attack with some optimizations. It supports most wireless adapters and is almost guaranteed to achieve its goal.
- AirSnort
The AirSnort is another popular Hacking tool for decrypting WEP encryption on a 802.11b wi-fi network. It is a free tool and runs on Linux and Windows platforms. This tool is no longer maintained, but it is still available for download from Sourceforge. AirSnort works by passively monitoring transmissions and computing encryption keys once it captures enough packets. This tool is easy to use. If you are interested, you can try this tool to crack WEP passwords.
- Cain & Able
The Cain & Able is a popular tool for password cracking. It is developed to disrupt network traffic and then discover passwords via bruteforcing the password, using cryptanalysis attack methods. It can also retrieve wireless network keys by analyzing routing protocols. If you are trying to learn wireless security and password cracking, you should try this tool.
- Kismet
It is a hacking tool that works with any wi‑fi card that supports rfmon mode. It passively captures packets to locate networks and detect hidden networks. It is built with a modular client/server architecture. It is available for Linux, OSX, Windows and BSD.
- NetStumbler
NetStumbler is a popular Windows to find open wireless access points. This tool is free and available for Windows. Basically NetStumbler is used for wardriving, verifying network configurations, finding places with bad networks, detecting unauthorized access points and much more. But the tool also has one big drawback. It can be easily detected by most available wireless intrusion detection systems.
- inSSIDer
The inSSIDer is a popular Wi-Fi scanner for Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems. Initially the tool was open source. Later it became premium and now costs 19.99 dollars. It was also declared as “Best Opensource Software in Networking”. The wireless scanner inSSIDer can perform various tasks, such as finding open Wi-Fi access points, detecting signal strength and storing log files with GPS records.
- WireShark
WireShark is a network protocol analyzer. It allows you to check what is happening on your network. It captures packets and allows you to inspect the data. It runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and others. WireShark requires a good knowledge of network protocols to analyze the data captured with the tool. If you do not have a good knowledge of this, you may not find this tool interesting. So, try it only if you are confident in your knowledge.
- CoWPAtty
CoWPAtty is an automated hacking tool for WPA-PSK based on a wordlist. It runs on the Linux operating system. This program has a command-line interface and runs against a list of words that contains the password to be used in the attack. The use of the tool is really simple, but it is slow. The new version of the tool tried to improve speed by using a pre-computed hash file. This pre-computed file contains about 172000 dictionary entries for roughly 1000 most popular SSIDs. But if your SSID is not among those 1000, you are out of luck.
- Airjack
Airjack is a Wi‑Fi 802.11 packet injection tool. This wireless injection tool is very useful for injecting trapped packets and for creating a network under a denial‑of‑service attack. This tool can also be used for a man‑in‑the‑middle attack on the network.
- WepAttack
WepAttack is an open-source Linux tool for cracking WEP 802.11 keys. This tool performs an active dictionary attack by testing millions of words to find the working key. Working with WepAttack requires only a functioning WLAN card.
