Wifite

This repo is a complete re-write of wifite, a Python script for auditing wireless networks.

Wifite runs existing wireless-auditing tools for you. Stop memorizing command arguments & switches!

Wifite is designed to use all known methods for retrieving the password of a wireless access point (router). These methods include:

1. WPS: The Offline Pixie-Dust attack
2. WPS: The Online Brute-Force PIN attack
   WPS: The Offline NULL PIN attack
3. WPA: The WPA Handshake Capture + offline crack.
4. WPA: The PMKID Hash Capture + offline crack.
5. WEP: Various known attacks against WEP, including fragmentation, chop-chop, aireplay, etc.
6. WIFI Signal jammer, block specific accesspoints or multiple. signal jamming only works for specific Atheros WiFi chipsets.

Run wifite, select your targets, and Wifite will automatically start trying to capture or crack the password.

Supported Operating Systems

Wifite is designed specifically for the latest version of Kali Linux. ParrotSec is also supported.

NetHunter (Android) is also widely supported by wifite, but it will require a custom kernel with modules support and various patches for injection in order to work. Tested on Android 10 (Q), Android 11 (R), Android 12 (S) and Android 13 (T)

More information regarding Android: NetHunter is found there and you should also take a look at the NetHunter WIKI which is more up to date then NetHunter.com .

Other pen-testing distributions (such as BackBox or Ubuntu) have outdated versions of the tools used by Wifite. Do not expect support unless you are using the latest versions of the Required Tools, and also patched wireless drivers that support injection.

Required Tools

First and foremost, you will need a wireless card capable of "Monitor Mode" and packet injection (see this tutorial for checking if your wireless card is compatible and also this guide). There are many cheap wireless cards that plug into USB available from online stores.

Second, only the latest versions of these programs are supported and must be installed for Wifite to work properly:

Required:

• Suggest using python3 as python2 was marked deprecated as of january 2020.
• As we moved from older python and changed to fully support and run on python3.11
• Iw: For identifying wireless devices already in Monitor Mode.
• Ip: For starting/stopping wireless devices.
• Aircrack-ng suite, includes:
  • airmon-ng: For enumerating and enabling Monitor Mode on wireless devices.
  • aircrack-ng: For cracking WEP .cap files and WPA handshake captures.
  • aireplay-ng: For deauthing access points, replaying capture files, various WEP attacks.
  • airodump-ng: For target scanning & capture file generation.
  • packetforge-ng: For forging capture files.

Optional, but Recommended:

• tshark: For detecting WPS networks and inspecting handshake capture files.
• reaver: For WPS Pixie-Dust & brute-force attacks.
  • Note: Reaver's wash tool can be used to detect WPS networks if tshark is not found.
• bully: For WPS Pixie-Dust & brute-force attacks.
  • Alternative to Reaver. Specify --bully to use Bully instead of Reaver.
  • Bully is also used to fetch PSK if reaver cannot after cracking WPS PIN.
• john: For CPU (OpenCL)/GPU cracking passwords fast.
• coWPAtty: For detecting handshake captures.
• hashcat: For cracking PMKID hashes.
  • hcxdumptool: For capturing PMKID hashes.
  • hcxpcapngtool: For converting PMKID packet captures into hashcat's format.

Install dependencies

Either, do it the proper python way with

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run Wifite

$ sudo ./wifite.py

Install Wifite

To install onto your computer (so you can just run wifite from any terminal), again, the choice is the old fashioned way of python ..

$ sudo python3 setup.py install

This will install wifite to /usr/sbin/wifite which should be in your terminal path.

Brief Feature List

• PMKID hash capture (enabled by-default, force with: --pmkid)
• WPS Offline Brute-Force Attack aka "Pixie-Dust". (enabled by-default, force with: --wps-only --pixie)
• WPS Online Brute-Force Attack aka "PIN attack". (enabled by-default, force with: --wps-only --no-pixie)
• WPA/2 Offline Brute-Force Attack via 4-Way Handshake capture (enabled by-default, force with: --no-wps)
• Validates handshakes against tshark, cowpatty, and aircrack-ng (when available)
• Various WEP attacks (replay, chopchop, fragment, hirte, p0841, caffe-latte)
• Automatically decloaks hidden access points while scanning or attacking.
  • Note: Only works when channel is fixed. Use -c <channel>
  • Disable this using --no-deauths
• 5Ghz support for some wireless cards (via -5 switch).
  • Note: Some tools don't play well on 5GHz channels (e.g. aireplay-ng)
• Stores cracked passwords and handshakes to the current directory (--cracked)
  • Includes information about the cracked access point (Name, BSSID, Date, etc).
• Easy to try to crack handshakes or PMKID hashes against a wordlist (--crack)

TIP! Use wifite.py -h -v for a collection of switches and settings for your own customization, automation, timers and so on ..

What's new?

Comparing this repo to the "old wifite" @ https://github.com/derv82/wifite

• Less bugs
  • Cleaner process management. Does not leave processes running in the background (the old wifite was bad about this).
  • No longer "one monolithic script". Has working unit tests. Pull requests are less-painful!
• Speed
  • Target access points are refreshed every second instead of every 5 seconds.
• Accuracy
  • Displays realtime Power level of currently-attacked target.
  • Displays more information during an attack (e.g. % during WEP chopchop attacks, Pixie-Dust step index, etc)
• Educational
  • The --verbose option (expandable to -vv or -vvv) shows which commands are executed & the output of those commands.
  • This can help debug why Wifite is not working for you. Or so you can learn how these tools are used.
• More-actively developed, with some help from the awesome open-source community.
• Python 3 support.
• Sweet new ASCII banner.

What's gone?

• Some command-line arguments (--wept, --wpst, and other confusing switches).
  • You can still access some of these obscure options, try wifite -h -v

What's not new?

• (Mostly) Backwards compatible with the original wifite's arguments.
• Same text-based interface everyone knows and loves.

Screenshots

NetHunter Android 13 (S) scanning for targets / target information

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Cracking WPS PIN using reaver's Pixie-Dust attack, then fetching WPA key using bully:

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Cracking WPA key using PMKID attack:

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Decloaking & cracking a hidden access point (via the WPA Handshake attack):

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Cracking a weak WEP password (using the WEP Replay attack):

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Cracking a pre-captured handshake using John The Ripper (via the --crack option):