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BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide Master bleeding edge wireless testing techniques with BackTrack 5.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515580
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vivek Ramachandran Vivek Ramachandran
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
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 WLANInfrastructure 6. Attacking the Client 7. Advanced WLAN Attacks 8. Attacking WPA-Enterprise and RADIUS 9. WLAN Penetration Testing Methodology Conclusion and Road Ahead Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – evil twin with MAC spoofing


Follow these instructions to get started:

  1. Use airodump-ng to locate the access point's BSSID and ESSID which we would like to emulate in the evil twin:

  2. We connect a Wireless client to this access point:

  3. Using this information, we create a new access point with the same ESSID but different BSSID and MAC address using the airbase-ng command:

  4. This new access point also shows up in the airodump-ng screen. It is important to note that you will need to run airodump-ng in a new window with the following command airodump-ng --channel 11 wlan0 to see this new access point:

  5. Now we send a De-Authentication frame to the client, so it disconnects and immediately tries to re-connect:

  6. As we are closer to this client, our signal strength is higher and it connects to our Evil Twin access point as shown in the following screens:

  7. We can also spoof the BSSD and MAC address of the access point using the following command:

  8. Now if we see through airodump-ng it is almost impossible...

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