Week 7 Lab

Wifi Hacking 101

Task1 What type of attack on the encryption can you perform on WPA(2) personal? • Answer: Brute Force

Can this method be used to attack WPA2-EAP handshakes? (Yea/Nay) • Answer: Nay (this will not work)

What three letter abbreviation is the technical term for the “wificode/password/passphrase” ? • Answer: PSK

What’s the minimum length of a WPA2 Personal password? Answer: 8

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos-space-apps/network-director4.0/topics/concept/wireless-wpa-psk-authentication.html

Task2 How do you put the interface “wlan0” into monitor mode with Aircrack tools? (Full command) • Answer: airmon-ng start wlan0

And then “wlan0”

What is the new interface name likely to be after you enable monitor mode? • Answer: wlan0mon

What do you do if other processes are currently trying to use that network adapter? • Answer: airmon-ng check kill

What tool from the aircrack-ng suite is used to create a capture? • Answer: airodump-ng

What flag do you use to set the BSSID to monitor? • Answer: –BSSID

And to set the channel? • Answer: –channel

And how do you tell it to capture packets to a file? • Answer: -w

Task 3:

What flag do we use to specify a BSSID to attack? • Answer: -b

What flag do we use to specify a wordlist? • Answer: -w

How do we create a HCCAPX in order to use hashcat to crack the password? • Answer: -j

Using the rockyou wordlist, crack the password in the attached capture. What’s the password? • Answer: greeneggsandham

Where is password cracking likely to be fastest, CPU or GPU? • Answer: GPU