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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

You're reading from   Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition Master wireless testing techniques to survey and attack wireless networks with Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280414
Length 214 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vivek Ramachandran Vivek Ramachandran
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Cameron Buchanan Cameron Buchanan
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Preface 1. Wireless Lab Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. WLAN and its Inherent Insecurities 3. Bypassing WLAN Authentication 4. WLAN Encryption Flaws 5. Attacks on the WLAN Infrastructure 6. Attacking the Client 7. Advanced WLAN Attacks 8. Attacking WPA-Enterprise and RADIUS 9. WLAN Penetration Testing Methodology 10. WPS and Probes A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – beating MAC filters


Let's follow the instructions to get started:

  1. Let's first configure our access point to use MAC filtering and then add the client MAC address of the victim laptop. The settings pages on my router looks as follows:

  2. Once MAC filtering is enabled, only the allowed MAC address will be able to successfully authenticate with the access point. If we try to connect to the access point from a machine with a non-whitelisted MAC address, the connection will fail.

  3. Behind the scenes, the access point is sending Authentication failure messages to the client. The packet trace resembles the following:

  4. In order to beat MAC filters, we can use airodump-ng to find the MAC addresses of clients connected to the access point. We can do this by issuing the airodump-ng -c 11 -a --bssid <mac> mon0 command. By specifying the bssid command, we will only monitor the access point, which is of interest to us. The -c 11 command sets the channel to 11 where the access point is. The...

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