3. Perform Wireless Attacks
As an ethical hacker and pen tester of an organization, you must test its wireless security, exploit WPA2 flaws, and crack the network’s access point keys.
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As an ethical hacker and pen tester of an organization, you must test its wireless security, exploit WPA2 flaws, and crack the network’s access point keys.
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WPA2 is an upgrade to WPA; it includes mandatory support for Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP), an AES-based encryption protocol with strong security. WPA2 has two modes of operation: WPA2-Personal and WPA2-Enterprise. Despite being stronger than both WEP and WPA, the WPA2 encryption method can also be cracked using various techniques and tools.
In this task, we will use the Aircrack-ng suite to crack a WPA2 network.
-a is the technique used to crack the handshake, 2=WPA technique.
-b refers to bssid; replace with the BSSID of the target router.
-w stands for wordlist; provide the path to a wordlist.
The result appears, showing the WPA handshake packet captured with airodump-ng. The target access point’s password is cracked and displayed in plain text next to the message KEY FOUND!, as shown in the screenshot.
You can also use other tools such as hashcat (https://hashcat.net), Portable Penetrator (https://www.secpoint.com), WepCrackGui (https://sourceforge.net) to crack WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryption.
