DriveDx is one of the first drive diagnostic tools created in the true Mac style. All interface elements are clear and intuitive, so it will only take you a few minutes to learn the basics and start using the program. When a problem is identified, you will see a notification on the desktop and the status bar will show the status of your drives. Since the WAN MAC address is the WLAN MAC address + one or two (depending on the model), a wireless attacker can easily guess the wan mac address of the device and thus calculate the default WPA2 passphrase. In either case, that’s problematic because it is possible to interrogate WiFi routers in order to learn their MAC address.
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You are 18 and bored at your grandma’s place, there is no source of entertainment, but you find out there is a sweet wifi spot at your neighbours. You have gone through a lot of wifi cracking articles/videos but the more you try, the more frustrated you get to have it working correctly. I feel ya! Here’s where this article comes in handy.
Even though majority classify cracking wifi passwords for the professional’s, but this article is also targeted towards beginners who have very little knowledge on computers. So, feel free to give it a shot!
- You need to be familiar with the command line. Or at least, how to paste the commands on the terminal ;)
- You are using a Mac (or running OSX)
I am using a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017) running macOS High Sierra version 10.13.5. You can find yours by selecting the
Apple
icon on the menu bar (top left of your screen) and select About This Mac
.Lets create a folder on Desktop where we want to place all our work files in. You can change to your desired directory if needed.
Open the terminal (
Command
+ Space
and type Terminal
). Once open, run the following commandsThe
my-wifi-cracking-work
folder is now visible on your desktop screen.Here’s how we plan to accomplish it:
- We first identifying the target network to crack
- Attempt to capture a 4 way handshake with our target network
- Finally, crack the network password!
Identifying the the target network #
Luckily OSX comes with wireless diagnostic tools that help with scanning/sniffing/etc. To access it, click on the wifi icon on the the menu bar while holding down the option key.
A dropdown menu will appear. Click on
Open Wireless Diagnostics ...
.Wireless Diagnostics
window appears now, but we will not use the one shown. Click on Window
on the menu bar and select Scan
.Note down the target networks
channel
and width
.Here’s an example of my target network:
Capturing 4-way handshake with your target network #
With the
Wireless Diagnostics
window open, click on Window
on the menu bar and select Sniffer
. Here, select the channel and width found from the previous step and press Start
. The tool automatically tries to capture a handshake with the desired network, no prompt will be shown though.Wait for 2-3 mins (we assume that is the typical time for a handshake to occur) and then press
Stop
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On pressing
Stop
, the pcap
file will be created on /var/tmp
folder.Lets now move this file into our work folder.
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We need to convert the
.pcap
file to .hccapx
file by uploading it here. If the handshake was captured in the file, this start the download of the .hccapx
file. If not, you will need to try a bit longer than earlier stated to generate this file.Download
naive-hashcat
and extract into the work directory. OR
git clone
it.Then …
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The cracking will take sometime depending on your hardware. To check your progress, you can press
s
where it would display an output similar to this:Once done, the results will be storied in
cracked.pot
file. It will be in a format will be network name and password seperated by :
In this case the password is
veryhardpassword123
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This article was inspired by the work of @brannondorsey and Lewis Encarnacion’s awesome tutorial