The idea of this article is to demonstrate the vulnerability of wireless networks, and especially to instill the idea of using decent passwords.
We will not cover basic principles about wifi networks, which are essential to obtain a good result using this or other tools for this purpose.
The Wifite a program developed in Python that allows, among other things:
- Sort goals by their power (in dB)
- Crack multiple ESSIDs at once
- Filter what the user wants to crack (WEP, WPA, channel,)
- Put the card in monitor mode automatically.
- Automat the attack.
- Ability to use dictionaries.
- Ability to change mac to make anonymous attacks
- GUI interface (the best !!!)
To install the tool you must also install the following dependencies:
- aircrack-ng
- python-tk
- macchanger
- pyrit
Then to install wifite, turn the following commands:
wget -O wifite.py http://wifite.googlecode/svn/trunk/wifite.py chmod +x wifite.py sudo ./wifite.py
The tool has numerous tools and options, and even uses a graphical interface (which makes it very special).
After the chosen options, red button starts the attack. A terminal will open, which after a while will show us the possible objects found. We can choose a specific target or scan them all.
After a while, the password obtained will be displayed.
The attack can be stopped using Ctrl + C. Another interesting detail that the program can be updated with the command
./wifite.py -upgrade
Do not use the program to do evil.
