How to Hack Wi-Fi: Breaking a WPS PIN

to Get the Password with Bully

http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/hack-wi-fi-breaking-wps-pin-getpassword-with-bully-0158819/

Welcome back, my nascent hackers!

Like anything in life, there are multiple ways of getting a hack done. In fact, good
hackers usually have many tricks up their sleeve to hack into a system. If they
didn't, they would not usually be successful. No hack works on every system and
no hack works all of the time.
I have demonstrated many ways to hack Wi-Fi here on Null Byte, including
cracking WEP and WPA2 passwords and creating an Evil Twin and Rogue AP.
A few years back, Alex Long demonstrated how to use Reaver to hack the WPS
PIN on those systems with old firmware and WPS enabled. Recently, a new WPShacking tool has appeared on the market and is included in ourKali hacking
distribution. It's name, appropriately, is Bully.

Why WPS Is So Vulnerable

WPS stands for Wi-Fi Protected Setup and was designed to make setting a secure
AP simpler for the average homeowner. First introduced in 2006, by 2011 it was
discovered that it had a serious design flaw. The WPS PIN could be brute-forced
rather simply.
With only 7 unknown digits in the PIN, there are just 9,999,999 possibilities, and
most systems can attempt that many combinations in a few hours. Once the WPS
PIN is discovered, the user can use that PIN to find the WPA2 preshared key
(password). Since a brute-force attack against a WPA2 protected AP can take
hours to days, if this feature is enabled on the AP and not upgraded, it can be a
much faster route to getting the PSK.

The Keys to Success

It's important to note, though, that new APs no longer have this vulnerability. This
attack will only work on APs sold during that window of 2006 and early 2012. Since
many families keep their APs for many years, there are still many of these
vulnerable ones around.

If you aren't familiar with wireless hacking, I strongly suggest that you read
my introduction on the Aircrack-ng suite of tools. In addition, make certain that you
have an Aircrack-ng compatible wireless card, otherwise this will simply be an
exercise in frustration.

Step 1: Fire Up Kali

Let's start by firing our favorite hacking Linux distribution, Kali. Then open a
terminal that looks like this:

To make certain we have some wireless connections and their designation, we can
type:

kali > iwconfig

As we can see, this system has a wireless connection designated wlan0. Yours
may be different, so make certain to check.

Step 2: Put Your Wi-Fi Adapter in Monitor Mode

The next step is to put your Wi-Fi adapter in monitor mode. This is similar to
promiscuous mode on a wired connection. In other words, it enables us to see all
the packets passing through the air past our wireless adapter. We can use one of
the tools from the Aircrack-ng suite, Airmon-ng, to accomplish this task.

kali > airmon-ng start wlan0

Next, we need to use Airdump-ng to see the info on the wireless AP around us.

kali > airdump-ng mon0

As you can see, there are several APs visible to us. I'm interested in the first one:
"Mandela2." We will need its BSSID (MAC address), its channel, and its SSID to be
able to crack its WPS PIN.

Step 3: Use Airdump-Ng to Get the Necessary Info

Finally, all we need to do is to put this info into our Bully command.

kali > bully mon0 -b 00:25:9C:97:4F:48 -e Mandela2 -c 9

Let's break down that command to see what's happening.

mon0 is the name of the wireless adapter in monitor mode.

--b 00:25:9C:97:4F:48 is the BSSID of the vulnerable AP.
-e Mandela2 is the SSID of the AP.
-c 9 is the channel the AP is broadcasting on.

All of this information is available in the screen above with Airdump-ng.

Step 4: Start Bully

When we hit enter, Bully will start to try to crack the WPS PIN.

Now, if this AP is vulnerable to this attack, bully will spit out the WPS PIN and the
AP password within 3 to 5 hours.