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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide

Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide

By : Dieterle, Cameron Buchanan, Vivek Ramachandran
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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide

Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide

4.6 (12)
By: Dieterle, Cameron Buchanan, Vivek Ramachandran

Overview of this book

As wireless networks become ubiquitous in our lives, wireless penetration testing has become a key skill in the repertoire of the professional penetration tester. This has been highlighted again recently with the discovery of the KRACK attack which enables attackers to potentially break into Wi-Fi networks encrypted with WPA2. The Kali Linux security distribution comes with a myriad of tools used for networking attacks and detecting security loopholes. Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Third Edition has been updated to Kali Linux 2017.3 with the latest methodologies, including full coverage of the KRACK attack and how to defend against it. The book presents wireless pentesting from the ground up, introducing all elements of penetration testing with each new technology. You'll learn various wireless testing methodologies by example, from the basics of wireless routing and encryption through to detailed coverage of hacking methods and attacks such as the Hirte and Caffe Latte.
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Time for action – speeding up the cracking process


We can proceed with the following steps:

  1. We can pre-calculate the PMK for a given SSID and wordlist using the genpmk tool with the following command:

    genpmk -f <chosen wordlist> -d PMK-Wireless-Lab -s "Wireless Lab"
    

    This creates the PMK-Wireless-Lab file containing the pregenerated PMK:

  2. We now create a WPA-PSK network with the passphrase abcdefgh (present in the dictionary we used) and capture a WPA-handshake for that network as we did with the previous exercise; alternatively, use the files we used previously. We now use Cowpatty to crack the WPA passphrase, as shown in the following screenshot:

    It takes approximately 7.18 seconds for Cowpatty to crack the key, using the precalculated PMKs.

  3. We now use aircrack-ng with the same dictionary file, and the cracking process takes over 22 minutes. This shows how much we are gaining because of the precalculation.

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