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Wifite

While the aircrack-ng suite is a well known name in the wireless hacking , the same can't be said
about Wifite. Living in the shade of the greatness of established aircrack-ng suite, Wifite has
finally made a mark in a field where aircrack-ng failed. It made wifi hacking everyone's piece of
cake. While all its features are not independent (eg. it hacks WPS using reaver), it does what it
promises, and puts hacking on autopilot. I'm listing some features, before I tell you how to use
wifite (which I don't think is necessary at all, as anyone who can understand simple English
instructions given by Wifite can use it on his own).

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Features Of Wifite
Sorts targets by signal strength (in dB); cracks closest access points first

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Automatically de-authenticates clients of hidden networks to reveal SSIDs

Numerous filters to specify exactly what to attack (wep/wpa/both, above certain signal strengths, channels, etc)
Customizable settings (timeouts, packets/sec, etc)

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"Anonymous" feature; changes MAC to a random address before attacking, then changes back when attacks are
complete

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All captured WPA handshakes are backed up to wifite.py's current directory

Smart WPA de-authentication; cycles between all clients and broadcast deauths
Stop any attack with Ctrl+C, with options to continue, move onto next target, skip to cracking, or exit
Displays session summary at exit; shows any cracked keys

Shows up on the first page when you

type Kali Linux on google (7th result
unfortunately, not the 1st)
http://www.kalitutorials.net/2013/08/kalilinux.html

All passwords saved to cracked.txt

Built-in updater: ./wifite.py -upgrade

I find it worth mentioning here, that not only does it hack wifi the easy way, it also hack in the
best possible way. For example, when you are hacking a WEP wifi using Wifite, it uses fakeauth
and uses the ARP method to speed up data packets(I wrote a full length post about something
which it does automatically!).

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Hacking WEP network

If you've followed my previous posts on Hacking Wifi (WEP), you know there's a lot of homework
you have to do before you even start hacking. But not here. With Wifite, its as easy and simple
as a single command.

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wifite -wep

You might even have used the command

wifite

If you see any error at this stage move to the bottom of the page for troubleshooting tips. If
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The -wep makes it clear to wifite that you want to hack WEP wifis only. It'll scan the networks for
you, and when you think it has scanned enough, you can tell it to stop by typing ctrl+c. It'll then
ask you which wifi to hack. In my case, I didn't specify -wep so it shows all the wifis in range.

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Note, the limitation that many reader on my blog are beginners forbid me from introducing
too many attacks. I made a tutorial about ARP replay attack, and that too was detailed as hell.
However, Wifite makes it possible for you to use any method that you want to use, by just
naming it. As you saw in the screenshot above, the fragmentation attack was carried out just by
typing -frag. Similarly, many other attacks can be played with. A good idea would be to execute
the followingwifite -help

This will tell you about the common usage commands, which will be very useful. Here is the list
of WEP commands for different attacks WEP
-wep only target WEP networks [off]
-pps <num> set the number of packets per second to inject [600]
-wept <sec> sec to wait for each attack, 0 implies endless [600]
-chopchop use chopchop attack [on]
-arpreplay use arpreplay attack [on]
-fragment use fragmentation attack [on]
-caffelatte use caffe-latte attack [on]
-p0841 use -p0841 attack [on]
-hirte use hirte (cfrag) attack [on]
-nofakeauth stop attack if fake authentication fails [off]
-wepca <n> start cracking when number of ivs surpass n [10000]
-wepsave save a copy of .cap files to this directory [off]

As you can see, its the same thing as is there on the help screenshot. Play around with the
attacks and see what you can do. Hacking WPA without WPS wouldn't be that easy, and while I
don't usually do this, I'm providing a link to an external website for the tutorial . This is the best
WPA cracking tutorial I've seen, and I can't write a better one. It's highly detailed, and I'm just
hoping I don't lose my audience to that website. Here is the tutorial -Cracking Wifi WPA/WPA2
passwords using pyrit cowpatty in Kali Linux

Troubleshooting

Wifite quits unexpectedly, sating "Scanning for wireless devices. No wireless interfaces were
found. You need to plug in a wifi device or install drivers. Quitting."

You are using Kali inside a virtual machine most probably. Virtual machine does not support
internal wireless card. Either buy an external wireless card, or do a live boot / side boot with
Windows. Anything other than Virtual machine in general.

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Anonymous

May 19, 2014 at 10:41 AM

The wifite I am using on Kali linux asks me to use a dictionary so it can use to attack. How do I write the
command to achieve this ? Also why does wifite ask me to do this ?
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SHASHWAT CHAUDHARY
February 18, 2015 at 8:53 PM
You are attacking a WPA network. Start with WEP.

Anonymous

May 23, 2014 at 4:38 PM

I would like to add to my above statement. I think the material you have put together is fantastic. Well
done. No easy task. Keep up the good work Shashwat.
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SHASHWAT CHAUDHARY

May 24, 2014 at 1:26 AM

Thanks a lot.

Anonymous

May 24, 2014 at 2:31 PM

Thanks Shashwat. You have helped me take a step forward. It's refreshing to find a good resource that is
helpful. Great job.
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February 17, 2015 at 1:59 AM

Bout how long do you think ?

I had success with Reaver.
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SHASHWAT CHAUDHARY
February 18, 2015 at 8:54 PM
Wifite will take
-as long as reaver for WPS
-as long as aircrack+aireplay for WEP

MANSOOR AHMAD

March 21, 2015 at 12:41 AM

Nice tutorial thanx

http://beinghaxor.blogspot.com/
http://beinghaxor.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-to-hack-wifiwpawpa2wep-in-single.html
http://beinghaxor.blogspot.com/2015/03/top-10-hackers-tools.html
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