This is what the client would witness when the attack is underway. While the reconnection is happening, we would be able to sniff and capture the handshake which we can then use to crack :) Launching AttackĪt this point, we have obtained a capture of the handshake which can then be used to crack the Pre-Shared Key (PSK) of the network with a trusty wordlist. Deauthenticating clients from a network will force them to reconnect to it. Now that we have our target and have verified that there are clients connected to it, we can conduct a deauth attack on the network and listen for handshakes destined to the network. The MAC address of the client is shown right below the router's MAC. It's evident that one client is currently authenticated with the network. Here's my network which I'm gonna be attacking! (shown below) All these networks are the ones that are in the range of the Wifi 🍍. Once the scan is left to run for a short period of time, multiple targets should start popping up (As seen below). In this case, I will be attacking my own network.

Like every other penetration test, this starts with recon too! The first step to the attack would be to identify our 'target'.

I recently got my hands on the hardware for it thanks to a mentor of mine which enabled me to perform a range of wireless attacks in my home lab environment! If you're interested in setting up your own Wifi Pineapple, check out my in-depth guide over on my repo site! Wifi Penetration testing was always something I wanted to pick up.

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