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Share this story Last week's feature explaining why touched a nerve with many Ars readers, and with good reason. After all, passwords are the keys that secure Web-based bank accounts, sensitive e-mail services, and virtually every other facet of our online life. Lose control of the wrong password and it may only be a matter of time until the rest of our digital assets fall, too. Take, for example, the hundreds of millions of WiFi networks in use all over the world. If they're like the ones within range of my office, most of them are protected by the or security protocols. In theory, these protections prevent hackers and other unauthorized people from accessing wireless networks or even viewing traffic sent over them, but only when end users choose strong passwords. I was curious how easy it would be to crack these passcodes using the advanced hardware menus and techniques that have become readily available over the past five years.
What I found wasn't encouraging. First, the good news. WPA and WPA2 use an extremely robust password-storage regimen that significantly slows the speed of automated cracking programs. By using the along with 4,096 iterations of SHA1 cryptographic hashing algorithm, attacks that took minutes to run against the recent and password dumps of June would require days or even weeks or months to complete against the WiFi encryption scheme. What's more, WPA and WPA2 passwords require a minimum of eight characters, eliminating the possibility that users will pick shorter passphrases that could be brute forced in more manageable timeframes.
WPA and WPA2 also use a network's SSID as salt, ensuring that hackers can't effectively use precomputed tables to crack the code. That's not to say wireless password cracks can't be accomplished with ease, as I learned firsthand. I started this project by setting up two networks with hopelessly insecure passphrases. The first step was capturing what is known as the four-way handshake, which is the cryptographic process a computer uses to validate itself to a wireless access point and vice versa. This handshake takes place behind a cryptographic veil that can't be pierced. But there's nothing stopping a hacker from capturing the packets that are transmitted during the process and then seeing if a given password will complete the transaction. With less than two hours practice, I was able to do just that and crack the dummy passwords 'secretpassword' and 'tobeornottobe' I had chosen to protect my test networks.
Brother, can you spare a deauth frame? To capture a valid handshake, a targeted network must be monitored while an authorized device is validating itself to the access point. This requirement may sound like a steep hurdle, since people often stay connected to some wireless networks around the clock. It's easy to get around, however, by transmitting what's known as a, which is a series of deauthorization packets an AP sends to client devices prior to it rebooting or shutting down. Devices that encounter a deauth frame will promptly rejoin an affected network. Using the sold by penetration-testing software provider Immunity for $2,500 a year, I had no trouble capturing a handshake established between a and my MacBook Pro.
Indeed, using freely available programs like to send deauth frames and capture the handshake isn't difficult. The nice thing about Silica is that it allowed me to pull off the hack with a single click of my mouse. In less than 90 seconds I had possession of the handshakes for the two networks in a ' (that's short for packet capture) file.
My Mac never showed any sign it had lost connectivity with the access points. Dan Goodin I then uploaded the pcap files to, a software-as-a-service website that charges $17 to check a WiFi password against about 604 million possible words. Within seconds both 'secretpassword' and 'tobeornottobe' were cracked. A built-in to the freely available retrieved the passcodes with similar ease. It was the neighborly thing to do Cracking such passcodes I had set up in advance to be guessed was great for demonstration purposes, but it didn't provide much satisfaction.
What I really wanted to know was how much luck I'd have cracking a password that was actually being used to secure one of the networks in the vicinity of my office. So I got the permission of one of my office neighbors to crack his WiFi password. To his chagrin, it took CloudCracker just 89 minutes to crack the 10-character, all-numerical password he used, although because the passcode wasn't contained in the entry-level, 604 million-word list, I relied on a premium, 1.2 billion-word dictionary that costs $34 to use. My fourth hack target presented itself when another one of my neighbors was selling the above-mentioned Netgear router during a recent sidewalk sale. When I plugged it in, I discovered that he had left the eight-character WiFi password intact in the firmware. Remarkably, neither CloudCracker nor 12 hours of heavy-duty crunching by Hashcat were able to crack the passphrase.
The secret: a lower-case letter, followed two numbers, followed by five more lower-case letters. There was no discernible pattern to this password. It didn't spell any word either forwards or backwards. I asked the neighbor where he came up with the password. He said it was chosen years ago using an automatic generation feature offered by EarthLink, his ISP at the time.
The e-mail address is long gone, the neighbor told me, but the password lives on. No doubt, this neighbor should have changed his password long ago, but there is a lot to admire about his security hygiene nonetheless. By resisting the temptation to use a human-readable word, he evaded a fair amount of cutting-edge resources devoted to discovering his passcode. Since the code isn't likely to be included in any password cracking word lists, the only way to crack it would be to attempt every eight-character combination of letters and numbers. Such brute-force attacks are possible, but in the best of worlds they require at least six days to exhaust all the possibilities when using Amazon's.
WPA's use of a highly iterated implementation of the PBKDF2 function makes such cracks even harder. Besides changing the password every six months or so and not using a 10-digit phone number, my neighbors could have taken another important step to improve their WiFi security. WPA allows for passwords with 63 characters in them, making it possible to append four or five randomly selected words—'applesmithtrashcancarradar' for instance—that are easy enough to repeat to guests who want to use your wireless network but are prohibitively hard to crack. Yes, the gains made by crackers over the past decade mean that passwords are under assault like never before. It's also true that it's trivial for hackers in your vicinity to capture the packets of the wireless access point that routes some of your most closely held secrets. But that doesn't mean you have to be a sitting duck. When done right, it's not hard to pick a passcode that will take weeks, months, or years to crack.
With odds like that, crackers are likely to move onto easier targets, say one that relies on the quickly guessed 'secretpassword' or a well-known Shakespearean quote for its security. Promoted Comments.
Smack-Fu Master, in training. This is all well and good, but one thing to keep in mind: if you have WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) enabled on your router (and you likely do if you bought a router in the past 4-5 years), it makes no difference how long or complex your WPA/WPA2 passkey is.
If it is enabled, WPS can be easily cracked within 24 (or less in many cases) hours by breaking down the 8-character PIN into 2 halves, and cracking those halves. The 8th digit is actually a checksum of the first 7, so really you only have to guess the first 7. This amounts to 11,000 (!) possible combinations. Once cracked, your program of choice can request the full, unencrypted, plaintext WPA/WPA2 passkey, without ever having to touch it. Oh, and this can all be done with free, open-source, readily available software, and requires very little hardware power. Edit: Also, looking at the screen cap of the list of APs - many of them show WPS(ON).
This makes an even stronger case for WPS cracking, as it takes less time, and you don't have to buy expensive software or spend lots of money on renting out EC2 servers to crack the WPA passkey. Last edited by on Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:12 am 45 posts registered Aug 19, 2010.
Ars Tribunus Militum. I use multi-syllable words, but between each syllable I'll add a symbol. Then I'll follow up with some numbers. Probably not the most secure, but at least I can remember it. Worst part is I've lived at a house where my landlord had an old lappy that was built during the integrated wifi WEP days.
I downgraded the router to use WEP security, but the longest 26 char password. We live right on the corner of 2 main streets w/ a bus stop outside the wall of our backyard no less. I figured someone at the bus stop could have hacked into our router long ago. I'm moving soon. Gonna be glad to be away from WEP encryption.
While I understand the situation you were in; using a 26 character password did nothing to help you. WEP's issue is the intialization vector (IV) for each encrypted frame is only 16bits (IIRC) long. That means that after 2^16 uniquely encrypted frames you will have a frame that re-uses the IV.
That in turn makes it very easy to get two frames (or more, usually many more) that used the same IV. From there it's a fairly trivial set of cryptanalysis techniques to identify the 'master' key used to generate the encryption given the IV those frames used. Thanks for an informative and well written piece IMHO. As for the free versus pay for software. It's an irrelevance like security through obscurity, yes free software is likely to be good at this, yes an attacker is likely to not care about ease of use if they do this on a larger scale. Regardless of the number of sentences, words or characters devoted to free software that can do this I found it abundantly clear that there were free alternatives and they could perform the same or similar functions.
1390 posts registered Feb 15, 2009. Wise, Aged Ars Veteran.
MAC address filtering does not add security to a wireless network. It's useful to create an access control list if you are using a shared password among many people (say, at a business) and you don't want them to connect their IPad, IPhone, laptop, etc. All to the company network. Against an actual hack attempt though, it adds no security.
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That's not necessarily true. On my wireless router I can configure the MAC filter as a whitelist or a blacklist. I have it configured as a whitelist, so unless I've logged into the router and put your MAC in, you can't get a connection to the wireless. I suspect this configuration is giving you a false sense of security, since it's trivial for me to read the MAC address of a machine that's already connected to your network and then spoof it and connect using my own computer. Can anyone tell me why this wouldn't be possible?
You are right about the false sense of security. The MAC address is in the captured packets.
Spoofing a Mac address is as easy as capturing the packets. All you need is a an application and a card with promiscuous mode. You may want to check the free application Wireshark for capturing packets: 118 posts registered Nov 4, 2002. Wise, Aged Ars Veteran. I have no doubt that someone with enough time and ambition could crack my home network.
Believing otherwise is just foolish. But by not broadcasting the SSID, adding MAC filtering, disabling remote administration of the router, using WPA-2, using a unique character string for the network name, and strong passwords for both the network and the router, I'd like to think that it will deter 99% of people. Your reccomendations are without value: - not broadcasting the SSID = no difference, any war-driving stumbler application will display all SSID - MAC filtering = no difference, to siff packet, you need a promiscuous network card, which is also the requirement for sppofing MAC - disabling remote adminsitration= no difference, because the hacker is in the internal network, he/she is accessing the administration from the internal network - WPA-2 = only a difference vs. WEP, WPA-2 with less than 8 characters from an extended character set is crackable in a VERY short time - using a unique character string for the network name: used to make a difference because it prevented the sue of rainbow tables, no longer useful because bruteforcing has been gigantic leap with GPU-assisted password cracking - strong passwords for both the network and the router: duh!!! Please note that implementing long response time or lock-down after too many attempts have 2 weaknesses: - open the door to DOS attack - cracking can be made offline against a dictionnary or by bruteforce 118 posts registered Nov 4, 2002.
Smack-Fu Master, in training. Even then, most consumer-level routers allow MAC address filtering, or doling out a specific number of DHPC addresses to further limit the devices that can attach to the network.
Sure, they're not usually set by default, but it's simple to set up. Sadly, it's even simpler to take the lazy way out and not mention that these ARE valid methods of enabling additional security on Aunt Helen's router. There are tools that can spoof MAC addresses, so by enabling MAC address filtering on Aunt Helen's router will not make it 100% secure. If someone wants access to it, they will get it. 86 posts registered Apr 20, 2010.
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Ten Free Wireless Hacking Software There are lots of free tools available online to get easy access to the WiFi networks intended to help the network admins and the programmers working on the WiFi systems and we at Team Techworm have picked the top 10 of those for ethical hackers, programmers and businessmen. Internet is now a basic requirement be it office or home as it is majorly used in smartphones besides computer. Most of the times people prefer to use wireless network LAN which is much easier and cost effective. It has been observed that the neighborhood WiFi hot-spots are visible on user’s device however one can get access to the same only by cracking password with the sole purpose of using free internet. Also in case of big firms where all the employees are connected through a wireless network admin might want to keep a check on the network traffic and hence even they need tools to crack the network.
Vulnerability in the wireless LAN is majorly due to poor configuration and poor encryption. Poor configuration includes the case of weak password mainly done purposefully by the network admin to check the network traffic. Poor encryption is dangerous as it is related to the 2 security protocols WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (WiFi Protected Access) and WPA is again of 2 types WPA1 and WPA2, WPA was introduced in 2003 as WEP protocol was easy to crack. The tools used to hack the network is used either for the. purpose of sniffing the network: as is the case of network admins and.
cracking the password: used by programmers to rectify the trouble shooting and by the people who want to use internet free of cost. It has been seen that based on this concept there are around 10 tools together which can be understood to hack wireless LAN. Aircrack Most popular wireless password cracking tool, it attacks 802.11a/b/g WEP and WPA. This tool manufacturers also provides tutorial for installation of the tool and its usage for cracking the password.
Prior to using this tool it is essential to confirm that the wireless card can inject packets as this is basis of WEP attack. This can be downloaded from: 2) Cain & Abel: This tool intercepts the network traffic and cracks the passwords forcibly using crypt-analysis attack methods.
It also helps to recover the wireless network keys by analyzing routine protocols. Can be downloaded from: inSSIDer This tool has been awarded “Best Opensource Software in Networking” and is a paid software available at a cost of $19.99. This is popular scanner for Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems and can do a lot of tasks which can be helpful for the admins to sniff the network LAN. Can be downloaded from. WireShark This is network protocol analyzer. So again good for the network admins to keep a check on the traffic.
Basic requirement is that the user should have a good knowledge of the network protocol only then they can use this tool. Can be downloaded from: CoWPAtty This tool is an automated dictionary attack tool for WPA-PSK. CoWPatty is simple to use however it is slow as tool uses the password dictionary for generating hack for each word contained in the dictionary by using the SSID. Can be downloaded from: Airjack This is a Wi-Fi 802.11 packet injection tool. Mostly used to check for the “man-in-the-middle (MiTm) flaws” in the network and mitigate them. Can be downloaded from: WepAttack This is an open source Linux tool for breaking 802.11 WEP keys. While working with this tool a WLAN card is required and basically the tool attacks working key using the dictionary words.
Can be downloaded from: OmniPeek This is again network analyzer tool working only on Windows OS. This tools captures and analyzes the network traffic. The tool can be also used for trouble shooting. Can be downloaded from: CommView for WiFi This is for wireless monitoring and protocol analysis. Captured packets can be decoded by user-defined WEP or WPA keys. This again is mainly used to monitor the WiFi traffic by the professional programmers, protocol admins and even at homes. Can be downloaded from: CloudCracker This is online password cracking for WPA protected WiFi networks.
It is used to crack the passwords by using a dictionary of around 300 million words. Can be downloaded from: Most of these tools are free; some of them are for protocol analyzers to monitor the trouble shooting whereas others are for hacking the password for unauthorized internet access also there are tools which use the dictionary words to crack the password. For the network admins and the professional programmers these tools should be more helpful for understanding the cracking of password and hence helping them professionally. However, one needs to be cautious when using the tools as this might be an offense to use the tools to crack the passwords and get unauthorized access to the internet in some countries.
Also such kind of tools are also used by cyber criminals and terrorists to get easy access for free usage of internet anonymously. A bunch of cheap ass mother fuckas!
Too lazy and Too Poor to pay for their own Wifi lol You know that by cracking an administrators password to their Wifi router and network for example a neighbor near you or a business in public, only puts you in the position to be expose of your phone number,location etc you are not anonymous by doing this. It puts you in the to only get hacked backed in some sort of way shape or form,plus the administrators network you crack can see the changes in their speed and history of what you are looking up online it’s not smart nor to do this at all! Best just to pay for own Wifi and be safe!
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Welcome, my hacker novitiates! As part of, I want to demonstrate another excellent piece of hacking software for cracking WPA2-PSK passwords. In my last post, we. In this tutorial, we'll use a piece of software developed by wireless security researcher Joshua Wright called cowpatty (often stylized as coWPAtty).
This app simplifies and speeds up the dictionary/hybrid attack against WPA2 passwords, so let's get to it! Need a wireless network adapter? For this to work, we'll need to use a compatible wireless network adapter. Check out our 2017 list of Kali Linux and Backtrack compatible wireless network adapters in the link above, or you can grab. Step 1: Find Cowpatty Cowpatty is one of the hundreds of pieces of software that are included in the suite of software.
For some reason, it was not placed in the /pentest/wireless directory, but instead was left in the /usr/local/bin directory, so let's navigate there. cd /usr/local/bin Because cowpatty is in the /usr/local/bin directory and this directory should be in your PATH, we should be able to run it from any directory in BackTrack. Step 2: Find the Cowpatty Help Screen To get a brief rundown of the cowpatty options, simply type:. cowpatty. Step 4: Start a Capture File Next, we need to start a capture file where the hashed password will be stored when we capture the 4-way handshake.
airodump-ng -bssid 00:25:9C:97:4F:48 -c 9 -w cowpatty mon0 This will start a dump on the selected AP ( 00:25:9C:97:4F:48), on the selected channel ( -c 9) and save the the hash in a file named cowcrack. Step 5: Capture the Handshake Now when someone connects to the AP, we'll capture the hash and airdump-ng will show us it has been captured in the upper right-hand corner. As you can see in the screenshot above, cowpatty is generating a hash of every word on our wordlist with the SSID as a seed and comparing it to the captured hash. When the hashes match, it dsplays the password of the AP. Step 7: Make Your Own Hash Although running cowpatty can be rather simple, it can also be very slow.
The password hash is hashed with SHA1 with a seed of the SSID. This means that the same password on different SSIDs will generate different hashes. This prevents us from simply using a rainbow table against all APs. Cowpatty must take the password list you provide and compute the hash with the SSID for each word.
This is very CPU intensive and slow. Cowpatty now supports using a pre-computed hash file rather than a plain-text word file, making the cracking of the WPA2-PSK password 1000x faster!
Pre-computed hash files are available from the, and these pre-computed hash files are generated using 172,000 dictionary file and the 1,000 most popular SSIDs. As useful as this is, if your SSID is not in that 1,000, the hash list really doesn't help us. In that case, we need to generate our own hashes for our target SSID. We can do this by using an application called genpmk. We can generate our hash file for the 'darkcode' wordlist for the SSID 'Mandela2' by typing:.
genpmk -f /pentest/passwords/wordlists/darkc0de.lst -d hashes -s Mandela2. Is it possible to get a Wifi password from an iphone?
You see I have the Wifi password saved in my phone but it's hidden I've been searching the net to find anything that I could download to try to get this password but so far I've come up empty handed. As far as I can tell you have have your phone jailbroken to even attempt it and mine isn't. So if there's anyone out there that can help me. I'll be checking back just incase I want to play my games on PS3. It's been a whole months = Thank you Sookie Reply. Ive reached all the way to the end, but when I try to run cowpatty I get 'End of pcap capture file, incomplete four-way exchange. Try using a different capture'.
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Does this mean i have to redo the process? I am sure i got the hand shake, ive tried both methods, waiting for someone to conmect and by deauthenticating them. Both timess it said I got the handshake on the top left and it was on the correct bssid adress.
What should I do. I also noticed the command '-c' 'check for valid 4-way frames, does not crack'.
How do I use this and can this help me? What should I do. Using backtrack5r3 Reply. Hi still a noob at this and haven't successfully cracked yet but I'm in the process of one right now. Using rock you.txt and a custom dictionary i found around the net. Going on 30 hours now still running the word list. I was wondering if its ok to disconnect my wifi adapter from the computer that is running this attack.
I would like to use it on another computer to try another method while the original computer keeps aircrack-Ng. Can I do this? It had the hand shake spread. Or does the adapter need to stay in place for the attack to keep collecting data? Thanks for ready any any answers ahead of time. Cowpatty cab be installed on Ubuntu 12.10?? Is it able to crack hotspot configured on Linux to act as an AP?
After effects news ticker template powerpoint. I configure a hotspot on my Linux machine to act as an AP and try to crack the hotspot from other Linux machine using reaver but what I get for more than 10 hours is just as below, any help:. 0.00% complete. (0 seconds/pin). 0.00% complete.
(0 seconds/pin) same cracking steps were done directly on WIfi AP instead of hotspot and I was able to get the WPA 2 key. Why it doesn't work with hotspot?!! Pleeeeeeease help? Greetings, # sp00f wlan0 and mon0 MAC (optional or mandatory???). airmon-ng stop mon0. ifconfig wlan0 down.
macchanger -A wlan0. airmon-ng start wlan0. ifconfig mon0 down. macchanger -A mon0. ifconfig mon0 up. airmon-ng check ##Check for PIDs that you should kill # Reaver assoc thru aireplay.
Run aireplay in one terminal, open another and run reaver. aireplay-ng mon0 -1 120 -a B:S:S:I:D:xx -e SSID #new terminal. reaver -i mon0 -A -b B:S:S:I:D:xx -v I have more reaver tips straight from my Red playbook.;-p Will this work any better? The new firmware in routers is making reaver null. However luck and old hardware will be on your side sometimes.
Nice tut, OTW. However, I got struck with a major snafu. I'm operating Kali on USB: Live (686-pae) Just a few seconds after the command, 'airmon-ng start wlan0', both the modem and the network broke down and I couldn't progress past the first step. Also, only my network was displayed on the console (see screenshot).
Subsequently, I removed the data card from the modem and inserted it into my droid and it's working. However, the modem (Micromax MMX219W Speedhub) has died. Could it be possible that this command somehow killed or shorted the modem or is it because I was hacking without the proper kit (adapters, etc)? Please revert at your earliest convenience. Is there any wordlist to download i did everystep step by step.
Just dont see the wordlists other folks are using. I already tried every wordlist they already have in kali but only 2 of the work. This is crazy then when i used one of the wordlist they used it said cant find the psk and the passphrase list need to be longer i waited and waited til it stop and still got the same i did genpmk and the cowpatty the right way idk if its my wordlists i need, and sometimes i notice it say wlan0, wlan0mon wlan1 do i used the one that says adapter i used it and wlan0. Idk why it not working Reply.
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