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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Cracking WPS


WPS stands for Wi-Fi Protected Setup. This was introduced in 2006 and the main of was to ease the process of adding new devices to the network; there was no need to remember long WPA or WEP passphrases. However, the security of WPS was short-lived; in 2011 a major security flaw was revealed that affected wireless routers that supported WPS.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to use a tool called Reaver. It is an open source WPS cracking tool preinstalled in Linux. Reaver performs a brute force attack on the WPS pin number. Once we get the WPS PIN, the WPA PSK is recovered. For this exercise we will require a wireless router that has the WPS feature enabled.

How to do it...

  1. To scan for WPS enabled routers there is a package that comes with Reaver called wash; enter the following command to list the WPS-enabled device. Note that monitor mode is required to see the Beacon packets, understand whether the AP supports WPS, and tell whether WPS access is locked. This helps...
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