Cracking the keys

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is part of the aircrack-ng suite. This tool is designed to crack the WEP and WPA/WPA2 network keys.

We can use our 4-way handshake .pcap file with aircrack-ng to crack the network key.

1. Identify the BSSID of the network we want to crack the key from.

airodump-ng -r WPA2-PSK.pcap

Output from the WPA2-PSK.pcap file

2. Use aircrack-ng to crack the key

-w:wordlist

-b : BSSID of the network we want to crack the key from

WPA2-PSK.pcap : pcap file containing the 4-way handshake

aircrack-ng -w 1000000-password-seclists.txt -b 00:21:91:D2:8E:25 WPA2-PSK.pcap

Key cracked using aircrack-ng