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Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.

This tag is indicates a connection to Aircrack-ng, a GPL network software suite consisting of inter alia a detector, a packet sniffer and authentication investigation tools.

Software description, as found at the project's site:

Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.

It focuses on different areas of WiFi security:

  • Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools.
  • Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and others via packet injection.
  • Testing: Checking WiFi cards and driver capabilities (capture and injection).
  • Cracking: WEP and WPA PSK (WPA 1 and 2).

All tools are command line which allows for heavy scripting. A lot of GUIs have taken advantage of this feature. It works primarily Linux but also Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, as well as Solaris and even eComStation 2.

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Parts of Aircrack-ng suite:

  • script to enable monitor mode on wireless interfaces, going back to managed mode, and checking interface status
  • a packet capture tool for aircrack-ng

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airodump-ng - What are the abbreviations in the WPS column?

when using airodump-ng; with the -W / --wps flag enabled, what are the abbreviations that show up in the new column; like: LAB,DISP,KPAD,PBC, etc..? It's only briefly mentioned in the manual: -W, --wps Display a WPS column with WPS…
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Kali Linux(WSL) not recognizing wireless adapter

I have installed Kali Linux on my Windows 10 laptop through the Microsoft store. Now when I use the command iwconfig, it says no wireless extensions next wifi0, wifi1 and wifi2. So I thought my built-in wireless adapter is not capable of monitor…
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How to monitor packets from a MAC address

I am wanting to monitor a MAC address for activity on my network using airodump-ng I am currently: First running this: airodump-ng mon0 --write t which writes to the file t-01.csv a csv with the format: Station MAC, First time seen, Last time seen,…
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Multiple network interfaces and airmon-ng

Before using airmon-ng on a network interface, you now have to do : airmon-ng check kill This is essential in order to be able to put any interface in monitor mode, but it stops the service network-manager. As a result, having two network…
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aircrack-ng: how to store found key?

If I use aircrack-ng in a console, the console shows messages sometimes, ex.: new USB device plugged in when I plug in a new USB device. This messes up the screen and I cannot see that what was the key that has been found after running aircrack-ng…
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Is it possible to detect if a Router WPS button has been pressed or not by just passively monitoring traffic?

I mean you could check if the wps button has been pressed or not using this command wpa_cli wps_pbc But i am wondering if it's possible to do it using airodump-ng Without any one connecting to it. The wifiphisher Utility claims to be able to do it…
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How can i aggregate all txt file with one command for cracking?

I wanted to find passphrase from .cap file and .txt file (Password Dictionary). But I have too many .txt file's there. Can I use those file one by one for cracking? My command is given below: I tried this way, but it did not work aircrack-ng -a2 -b…
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Use Alfa AWUS1900 WLAN device in monitor mode on Kali Linux

I bought an Alfa AWUS1900 WLAN device for education purpose with Aircrack, because it has Linux support and some posts/reviews confirms that. Sadly I can't get the driver working in monitor mode, especially on the new 5er Kernel. My setup The…
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Airmon-ng not working on Crostini

When I try running airmon-ng I get no output and this error: ls: cannot access '/sys/class/ieee80211/': No such file or directory This is on a linux terminal on my Pixelbook, I installed aircrack-ng using Katoolin. I had a look at this question but…
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airodump-ng doesn't show results

When I run airodump-ng to scan Wi-Fis around me, I get no output, like there's nothing around me. I have a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 adapter that's integrated in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15) and i'm running Kali Linux 64 2019.1 here's the airmon-ng…
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What is the algorithm by which Wifite work?

I tried wifite in Kali Linux and I was curious about the algorithm by which it works and other dictionary-based wifi cracking tools.
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why couldn't airodump-ng change channel?

If I run airodump-ng on channel 10, why does it shows networks from channel 1? Why couldn't is change the CH? The only way I can change the channel is that I try to connect to a channel 10 network with nm-applet... then again try airodump-ng, and…
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AirCrack-NG suite: some tools like besside-ng were not installed on my Linux distro

Even when this is an Ubuntu issue, I think this is the proper forum to ask about it, due to this problem will probably reproduce in any other Linux distribution. I have installed Ubuntu Linux 14.04.2LTS and added AirCrack-NG (for wireless…
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Error: Invalid output format: IVS and PCAP format cannot be used together

I'm using aircrack-ng to capture a handshake on a WPA2 access point. I would like to write the outfile in pcap format, but I keep getting errors. I've tried reinstalling aircrack-ng using versions from github and arch repository. I ultimately want…
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"airmon-ng start wlan0" not working

I have a major problem on my Nethunter. Whenever I try to run "airmon-ng start wlan0" or "airmon-ng check kill" this happens; Error: /proc must be mounted To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like: proc /proc proc …
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