Wireless Attacks - Penetration Testing With Kismet - Kali Linux Tutorial - Part-2

Here we are going to learn how to use Wi-Fi cracking tools that Kali Linux has.However, it is important that the wireless card that you has a support monitoring mode. And this is for educational purpose.

Kismet:-

Kismet is a WIFI network analyzing tool. It is a 802.11 layer-2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It will work with any wireless card that supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a/b/g/n traffic. It identifies the networks by collecting packets and also hidden networks.

To use it, turn the wireless card into monitoring mode and to do this, type “airmon-ng start wlan-0” in the terminal.

 

Let’s learn how to use this tool.

Step 1 − To launch it, open terminal and type “kismet”.



Step 2 − Click “OK”.



Step 3 − Click “Yes” when it asks to start Kismet Server. Otherwise it will stop functioning.



Step 4 − Startup Options, leave as default. Click “Start”.



Step 5 − Now it will show a table asking you to define the wireless card. In such case, click Yes.



Step 6 − In this case, the wireless source is “wlan0”. It will have to be written in the section “Intf” → click “Add”.



Step 7 − It will start sniffing the wifi networks as shown in the following screenshot.



Step 8 − Click on any network, it produces the wireless details as shown in the following screenshot.

I hope you enjoy this tutorial, If you need any help please comment here

 

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