wifite
, a Python script for auditing wireless networks.What's new in Wifite2?
- 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!
- Cleaner process management. Does not leave processes running in the background (the old
- 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.
- The
- Actively developed (as of March 2018).
- Python 3 support.
- Sweet new ASCII banner.
What's gone in Wifite2?
- No more WPS PIN attack, because it can take days on-average.
- However, the Pixie-Dust attack is still an option.
- Some command-line arguments (
--wept
,--wpst
, and other confusing switches).- You can still access some of these, try
./Wifite.py -h -v
- You can still access some of these, try
What's not new?
- (Mostly) Backwards compatibile with the original
wifite
's arguments. - Same text-based interface everyone knows and loves.
Brief Feature List
- Reaver (or
-bully
) Pixie-Dust attack (enabled by-default, force with:--wps-only
) - WPA handshake capture (enabled by-default, force with:
--no-wps
) - Validates handshakes against
pyrit
,tshark
,cowpatty
, andaircrack-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 the
-c <channel>
switch. - Disable this via
--no-deauths
switch
- Note: Only works when channel is fixed. Use the
- 5Ghz support for some wireless cards (via
-5
switch).- Note: Some tools don't play well on 5GHz channels (e.g.
aireplay-ng
)
- Note: Some tools don't play well on 5GHz channels (e.g.
- Stores cracked passwords and handshakes to the current directory (
--cracked
)- Includes metadata about the access point.
- Provides commands to crack captured WPA handshakes (
--crack
)- Includes all commands needed to crack using
aircrack-ng
,john
,hashcat
, orpyrit
.
- Includes all commands needed to crack using
Linux Distribution Support
Wifite2 is designed specifically for the latest version of Kali's rolling release (tested on Kali 2017.2, updated Jan 2018).
Other pen-testing distributions (such as BackBox) have outdated versions of the tools used by Wifite; these distributions are not supported.
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