How To Hack WiFi On Raspberry Pi With Kali Linux

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How To Hack Wi-Fi on a Raspberry Pi

with Kali Linux
As I often write on this blog, the Raspberry Pi is the perfect device for
hacking and pen testing.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you the step-by-step procedure on how to hack a
wireless network from your Raspberry Pi.
Hacking Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi can be done easily with the AirCrack-

NG suite, available in the default repository.
AirCrack-NG can monitor all wireless networks, catch authentication
packets, and use them to find the password with a brute force attack.
In this post I’ll guide you through the entire process.

From installing Kali Linux and scanning the nearby networks, to hacking the
passwords.
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Disclaimer
Hacking a wireless network you don’t own is a crime in many countries
It’s illegal, and you can go to jail for this.
This tutorial is here for an educational purpose only.
Try this on your network if you want, to learn how hackers work and then
protect yourself.
But don’t use these techniques on other networks without the owner
permission.
In no case I can be held responsible for your actions.

Now that this is clear, let’s get down to the practice.
What do you need?

The hardware required for this tutorial is pretty usual, but if you are just
getting started, you need:
A Raspberry Pi with wireless and Ethernet cards: Raspberry Pi 4 and

Raspberry Pi 3B+ are a good choice for this project.
An Ethernet cable: You can’t use the Wi-Fi for your local network, as
you’ll use it for the hacking test. So, it’s better if you can plug your
Raspberry Pi with a fast cable like this one. It’s not possible in my
home, so I’m using that kind of device to do it anyway. That might be
something to consider.
A micro-SD card or USB key: I tend to use SD card less and less, and
use this USB drive from SanDisk instead for all my experiments. But if
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Kali Linux installation

Foreword
In this tutorial, I’ll use the Kali Linux operating system because it’s
convenient, everything is available on first boot.
But you can do the same on Raspberry Pi OS or other systems if you prefer.
The package we’ll use is often available in the default repositories, so you
can just install it.
For example, on Raspberry Pi OS:
sudo apt install aircrack-ng
Then jump directly to the hacking procedure paragraph.
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What is Kali Linux?

Kali Linux is a Linux distribution targeting ethical hacking and pen
testing users.
On the first boot, you’ll get everything you need for these kinds of uses:
Wi-Fi Hacking tools

Website exploits scanners
Sniffing/spoofing tools
Hardware hacking & stress testing
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Etc …
So, it’s the perfect Linux distribution for this tutorial, that’s why I’m using it.
You may have seen it in action in the Mr. Robot series, here is a short
overview of the possibilities I posted on my YouTube channel:
If you want more details, you can read my full installation guide here.
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You can get the image on this page.
Scroll to the ARM section, find the Raspberry Pi versions, and click on the
link corresponding to your model.
You can either download it directly (the small icon), or use Torrent.
In this case, you’ll need a Torrent download tool.
If you don’t have one, Deluge is available for any operating system: click
here.
Open the torrent file with the tool to start the download.
Once done, the image is available on your computer (it depends on your
Torrent tool but probably in the Downloads folder).
Create the SD card

The next step is to flash the image on the SD card.
You can either use Balena Etcher or Raspberry Pi Imager to do this. Etcher is
generally a bit faster, so I’ll explain with this tool.
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Download and install Balena Etcher from this link.
It’s the easiest and fastest tool to flash an image on a SD card.
Start Etcher, a window appears with three parts
Click on the first button and browse to the image location

Select the image file (can be an archive) and confirm
Insert the SD card in your computer
Etcher will detect it automatically
Then click on “Flash!” to start the copy
After a few minutes, your SD card is ready to use.
First boot
For your first try, I recommend connecting your Raspberry Pi with an
Ethernet cable.
That way you can follow this tutorial from your computer, it’ll be more
convenient.
I know that in real pen testing or hacking that’s not the case but to learn
you can start like that.
Start your Raspberry Pi

A login screen appears, enter the following credentials:
Login: kali
Password: kali
That’s it, you are on the Kali Linux desktop
Check that the network is working fine and enable ssh:
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Enter this command to check the network:
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If your ping is working, that’s fine

Hit CTRL+C to stop the ping
Then start the SSH server with:
service ssh start
SSH allows you to connect to the Raspberry Pi from your

computer
You can also grab your current IP address with:
ifconfig
Your IP address is on the second line from the result (more details
here)
That’s it, your Raspberry Pi is ready.

You can now connect to it from your computer via SSH.
If you don’t have it yet, you can install Putty from this link.
Enter the Raspberry Pi IP address and click connect.
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Configuration
The Kali Linux configuration doesn’t require many things, as everything is
already available on boot.
But I recommend to at least update your system with:
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This may take between 30 min and 1 hour, if you use an old Raspberry Pi
model and a slow connection.
Be patient
If needed, raspi-config is also available on Kali Linux for keyboard layouts

and localization options.
But you need to install it.
For this, and other questions, I already made a guide about Kali Linux on
Raspberry Pi, click on the link if you need further assistance on these steps.
Once you’re ready, you can move to the hacking procedure.
How To Hack Wi-Fi on Kali Linux

Aircrack introduction
AirCrack-NG is a suite of tools to hack Wi-Fi networks, or at least to
test their security.
AirCrack-NG offers tools to test, monitor, attack and crack Wi-Fi networks.
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Scan all Wi-Fi networks nearby
Listen to a specific target to get needed packets (handshakes)
Brute force handshakes data to find the password
If you are using Kali Linux, everything is already installed on first boot
On other systems, you have to install it manually.
Here is the link to the official website if you need help to install it.
Set your wireless card in monitor mode

The first step is to turn your wireless card into monitor mode.
This mode allows you to see all networks around you and listen for
handshakes.
Use the airmon-ng command a first time to display your wireless

card(s)
airmon-ng
Here, I have only one card named wlan0.

So, we can start airmon-ng with the interface we just found
airmon-ng start wlan0
On your first try, you’ll get errors about process interfering with the
monitor mode.
You have to kill them before moving forward.
Airmon-ng offers a command to kill them all easily:
airmon-ng check kill
Then start again:
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In the next steps we’ll use wlan0mon.
Scan for Wi-Fi networks

Once your wireless card is ready, we can move to the next tool:
airodump-ng.
Airodump-ng allows you to scan Wi-Fi networks to find your target.
Use the following command to start the scan:

airodump-ng wlan0mon
You’ll get a screen like this:
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Each line is a Wi-Fi network around you.

You’re close from the first networks in the list, and you can see their channel
in the CH column.
Just below the Wi-Fi networks list, you can see the stations detected and to
which network they are connected.
To collect data about a target, we need some active stations.
Choose one target

The first thing to do is to choose one target.
A target is a Wi-Fi network (one line in the list) with preferably a few active
devices on it.
In this lesson, choose your network, anything else is forbidden.

To filter the list to display only one Wi-Fi network, follow these steps:
Stop the scan networks command with CTRL+C

Then use this command to scan only one network and write data in a
file:
airodump-ng wlan0mon --bssid XX:XX:XX:XX:XX --channel X
--write airodump
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Replace XX by the BSSID mac address and X by the channel number.
airodump is the filename where you’ll collect data, we’ll use it later.
You’ll get a filtered list like this:
Here I have one wireless network and 3 devices connected, it’s perfect
Now you need to wait until one device reconnects to the Wi-Fi network.
As it’s your network, you can disconnect and reconnect your smartphone
and see what happens.
In real life, hackers are sending packets to force a device to reconnect

You can do this with aireplay-ng like this:
aireplay-ng wlan0mon --deauth 10 -a XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Replace the XX by the BSSID of the network you target.

Run this command in another terminal (or another SSH session).
You can’t stop the airodump command, or you won’t get the result.
If everything is going well, you’ll see a “WPA Handshake” message at the

top of your scan window:
Your attack is successful.

You now get one handshake in the file.
You can crack it to get the password.
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In the next steps we’ll try to find a password by doing this.
Get passwords dictionaries

With new security on Wi-Fi networks, it’s no longer possible to find the
password directly from the handshake data.
You need to use dictionaries to try many words and finally find the
corresponding password.
So, the first thing is to get those dictionaries.

Here is a list of links you can use to get them:
AirCrack NG Website
Crack Station
Other links on Reddit
Beware, some are big. On Raspberry Pi you don’t have unlimited disk space.
It all depends on the size of your SD card.
To download them, you can use wget, for example:

wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/openwall/wordlists/passwords
/password.gz
Then you need to extract them, depending on the extension, with gzip,
unzip or unrar.
Sometimes, you can also generate your dictionary (I think that John The
Ripper offers this feature).
Depending on the SSID name, you can probably guess what type of
password is set by default (each ISP/router has its default format).
Most of the time, people don’t change the default password.
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Crack the password

The last step is to try cracking the password with aircrack-ng and your
dictionaries
You now have to use this command to start cracking the Wi-Fi
password:
aircrack-ng airodump-01.cap -w password
airodump-01.cap is the file previously generated by airodump with the

WPA Handshake.
password is the name of my dictionary file.
Then aircrack-ng will try all the passwords from the file:
If you have a strong password, aircrack-ng won’t find it.

You can add it in the dictionary file to see what happens when it’s
found:
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Conclusion
That’s it, you now know how to crack a Wi-Fi password and how to
protect yourself from hackers.
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Once they got the .cap file from your Wi-Fi, hackers can crack it with
super computers for weeks or months if you are a big company that
interests them.
In a company like this, try to change the Wi-Fi password frequently or to
use enterprise features like Active Directory login and password.
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8 Comments
Paul Newell says:

January 8, 2021 at 11:23 pm
Patrick,
I’ve tried this several times now and even went so far as to re-installing Kali
[Linux]. I get the same error at the same place:
airodump-ng wlan0mon – bssid XX:XX:XX:XX:XX – channel X – write airodump
I get the following error after substituting my bssid and channel number
“airodump-ng –help” for help.
I’m thinking, that Aircrack-ng has changed since you posted this tutorial. Any help
would be appreciated.
This type of software really interests me in identifying any security holes in my
home network.
Patrick Fromaget says:

January 11, 2021 at 5:00 am
Hi Paul,
I will check this soon.

Thanks for your feedback.
Patrick Fromaget says:

February 5, 2021 at 2:19 pm
I have tested it recently, without noticing any issue with this tutorial.
Please share with us the solution/cause if you resolve this problem.
Sean says:
Had the same problem. If you notice in the help file, the commands are with
(two) hyphens “–”
–channel
–write
–bbssid
When i cam across that message I changed single hyphen commands to

double, and it worked.
Mike Taylor says:

I never get the “wlan0mon” interface. Using the Pi 400, the internal wifi doesn’t
seem to work, so I am using an Edimax USB wifi dongle, but it never shows up
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How To Hack Wi-Fi on a Raspberry Pi

Hacking Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi can be done easily with the AirCrack-

In this post I’ll guide you through the entire process.

In no case I can be held responsible for your actions.

What do you need?

A Raspberry Pi with wireless and Ethernet cards: Raspberry Pi 4 and

Kali Linux installation

Then jump directly to the hacking procedure paragraph.

What is Kali Linux?

Wi-Fi Hacking tools

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Kali Linux is available for download for free.

You can get the image on this page.

Create the SD card

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Click on the first button and browse to the image location

After a few minutes, your SD card is ready to use.

Start your Raspberry Pi

Check that the network is working fine and enable ssh:

If your ping is working, that’s fine

SSH allows you to connect to the Raspberry Pi from your

That’s it, your Raspberry Pi is ready.

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If needed, raspi-config is also available on Kali Linux for keyboard layouts

Once you’re ready, you can move to the hacking procedure.

How To Hack Wi-Fi on Kali Linux

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In this part, we’ll see how to use it step-by-step to:

Set your wireless card in monitor mode

Use the airmon-ng command a first time to display your wireless

Here, I have only one card named wlan0.

Then start again:

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Enter the airmon-ng command again

In the next steps we’ll use wlan0mon.

Scan for Wi-Fi networks

Use the following command to start the scan:

You’ll get a screen like this:

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Each line is a Wi-Fi network around you.

Choose one target

In this lesson, choose your network, anything else is forbidden.

Stop the scan networks command with CTRL+C

In real life, hackers are sending packets to force a device to reconnect

Replace the XX by the BSSID of the network you target.

If everything is going well, you’ll see a “WPA Handshake” message at the

Your attack is successful.

Get passwords dictionaries

So, the first thing is to get those dictionaries.

To download them, you can use wget, for example:

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Crack the password

airodump-01.cap is the file previously generated by airodump with the

If you have a strong password, aircrack-ng won’t find it.

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