BEFORE CONTINUING READ OUR DISCALIMER.
Tools Needed.
The ultimate pen testing or hacking OS , BackTrack will suffice , if you are a windows user , it is a lot more complicated , I will post a tutorial when I find out how!. BackTrack 3 or 4 .
Download it from http://remote-exploit.org
Selecting your wireless card and setting up.
Open up Konsole in BackTrack(remember this is linux , everything is typed).
There
Type: airmon-ng
You will see the name of your wireless card. (mine is named "ath0") From here on out, replace "ath0" with the name of your card.
Now type: airmon-ng stop ath0
then type: ifconfig wifi0 down
then: macchanger --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 wifi0
then: airmon-ng start wifi0
What these steps do is spoof your mac id so that even if you cannot be traced in case you are caught! Now it's time to discover some networks to break into
Type: airodump-ng ath0
Now you will see a list of wireless networks start to populate. Some will have a better signal than others and it is a good idea to pick one that has a decent signal otherwise it will take forever to crack or you may not be able to crack it at all.
Once you see the network that you want to crack, do this: hold down ctrl and tap c This will stop the display
**Now from here on out, when I tell you to type a command, you need to replace whatever is in parenthesis with what I tell you to from your screen.
For example: if i say to type: -c (channel) then dont actually type in -c (channel) Instead, replace that with whatever the channel number is...so, for example you would type: -c 6 Can't be much clearer than that...lets continue... Now find the network that you want to crack and MAKE SURE that it says the encryption for that network is WEP. If it says WPA or any variation of WPA then move on...you can still crack WPA with backtrack and some other tools but it is a whole other ball game and you need to master WEP first.
The bssid will look something like this --> 05:gk:30:fo:s9:2n The Channel number will be under a heading that says "CH". Now, in the same Konsole window,
type: airodump-ng -c (channel) -w (file name) --bssid (bssid) ath0
the FILE NAME can be whatever you want. This is simply the place that airodump is going to store the packets of info that you receive to later crack. You don't even put in an extension...just pick a random word that you will remember. I usually make mine "wepkey" because I can always remember it.
**Side Note: if you crack more than one network in the same session, you must have different file names for each one or it won't work. I usually just name them wepkey1, wepkey2, etc.
Once you typed in that last command, the screen of airodump will change and start to show your computer gathering packets. You will also see a heading marked "IV" with a number underneath it. This stands for "Initialization Vector" but in beginner terms all this means is "packets of info that contain clues to the password." Once you gain a minimum of 5,000 of these IV's, you can try to crack the password. I've cracked some right at 5,000 and others have taken over 60,000. It just depends on how long and difficult they made the password.
Now if you are thinking, "I'm screwed because my IV's are going up really slowly." Well, don't worry, now we are going to trick the router into giving us HUNDREDS of IV's per second.
Actually cracking the WEP password
Now leave this Konsole window up and running and open up a 2nd Konsole window. In this one
type: aireplay-ng -1 0 -a (bssid) -h 00:11:22:33:44:55 ath0
This will send some commands to the router that basically cause it to associate with your computer even though you are not officially connected with the password. If this command is successful, you should see about 4 lines of text print out with the last one saying something similar to "Association Successful :-)" If this happens, then good! You are almost there. Now type:
aireplay-ng -3 -b (bssid) -h 00:11:22:33:44:55 ath0
Now you need to open up a 3rd and final Konsole window. This will be where we actually crack the password. Type:
aircrack-ng -b (bssid) (filename)-01.cap
Remember the filename you made up earlier? Mine was "wepkey". Don't put a space in between it and -01.cap here. Type it as you see it. So for me, I would type wepkey-01.cap
Once you have done this you will see aircrack fire up and begin to crack the password. typically you have to wait for more like 10,000 to 20,000 IV's before it will crack. If this is the case, aircrack will test what you've got so far and then it will say something like "not enough IV's. Retry at 10,000." DON'T DO ANYTHING! It will stay running...it is just letting you know that it is on pause until more IV's are gathered. Once you pass the 10,000 mark it will automatically fire up again and try to crack it. If this fails it will say "not enough IV's. Retry at 15,000." and so on until it finally gets it.
If you do everything correctly up to this point, before too long you will have the password! now if the password looks goofy, dont worry, it will still work. some passwords are saved in ASCII format, in which case, aircrack will show you exactly what characters they typed in for their password. Sometimes, though, the password is saved in HEX format in which case the computer will show you the HEX encryption of the password. It doesn't matter either way, because you can type in either one and it will connect you to the network.
Take note, though, that the password will always be displayed in aircrack with a colon after every 2 characters. So for instance if the password was "hacktohell", it would be displayed as:
ha:ck:to:he:ll
This would obviously be the ASCII format. If it was a HEX encrypted password that was something like "0FKW9427VF" then it would still display as:
0F:KW:94:27:VF
Just omit the colons from the password, boot back into whatever operating system you use, try to connect to the network and type in the password without the colons and you are in
This may seem a bit complicated if you are doing this for the first time , you will get used to it
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