We’re actually going to use another cool-tool that belongs to the aircrack suite called aireplay-ng, to speed up the process. What we’re really doing now is waiting for a device to connect or reconnect to the network, forcing the router to send out the four-way handshake that we need to capture in order to crack the password.Īlso, four files should show up on your desktop, this is where the handshake will be saved when captured, so don’t delete them!īut we’re not really going to wait for a device to connect, no, that’s not what impatient hackers do.

Here we saved it to the Desktop, but you can save it anywhere.Ī complete command should look similar this:Īirodump-ng -c 10 –bssid 00:14:BF:E0:E8:D5 -w /root/Desktop/ mon0Īirodump with now monitor only the target network, allowing us to capture more specific information about it. The “–w” and file path command specifies a place where airodump will save any intercepted 4-way handshakes (necessary to crack the password). Paste the network BSSID where is, and replace with the name of your monitor-enabled interface, ( mon0). Replace with the channel of your target network. Note the channel of your target network.Īirodump-ng -c –bssid -w /root/Desktop/ Once you’ve spotted your network on the ever-populating list, hit Ctrl + C on your keyboard to stop the process. Locate your network or the network that you have permission to penetration test. If you receive a “ fixed channel –1” error, see the above NOTEĪirodump will now list all of the wireless networks in your area, and a lot of useful information about them. Type airodump-ng followed by the name of the new monitor interface, which is probably mon0. This disables the wireless card from connecting to the internet, allowing it to focus on monitor mode instead.Īfter you have disabled mon0 (completed the wireless section of the tutorial), you’ll need to enable wlan0 (or name of wireless interface), by typing: ifconfig up and pressing Enter. Replace with the name of the interface that you enabled mon0 on probably called wlan0. If you receive this error, or simply do not want to take the chance, follow these steps after enabling mon0: Type: ifconfig down and hit Enter. NOTE: A bug recently discovered in Kali Linux makes airmon-ng set the channel as a fixed “-1” when you first enable mon0. Note the name of the new monitor interface, mon0. The “(monitor mode enabled)” message means that the card has successfully been put into monitor mode. So my command would be: airmon-ng start wlan0 Type airmon-ng start followed by the interface name of your wireless card.

You can see here that my card supports monitor mode and that it’s listed as wlan0.

How to crack wifi passwords aircrack