How To Hack Wifi Password WPA2-PSK Using Cowpatty

If you are willing to know - how to hack wifi password with Cowpatty, then this is for you.

Step by step: how to hack wifi password.

v  Collect the Cowpatty

 Go to cd /usr/local/bin directory to get cowpatty.

We can run it from different directories in BackTrack.

v  Search the Cowpatty Help file

To have this option, just type:

cowpatty

BackTrack will deliver a short help page. Bear in your mind that cowpatty needs the subsequents.

A list of word

a data where the secret code hash has been captured

SSID of the desired AP

v  Keep your Wireless Adapter in Monitor Approach

Only for cracking with aircrack-ng, we have to keep the wireless adapter into monitor mode.

v  Begin a Capture File

Then, we have to start a capture file where the hashed password will be kept when we capture the 4-way grip.

v  Capture the Handshake

Now when anyone will join to the AP, we can hold the hash & airdump-ng will display us it has been hold.

v  Start the Cowpatty

As we have the hash of the password, we are able to use it with cowpatty & the wordlist for cracking the hash.

Take a look that, cowpatty is making a hash of all words on our wordlist with the SSID as a kernel & associating it to the captured hash. When the hashes are accurate, it shows the key of the AP.

v  Create your personal Hash

Cowpatty is easy to run but it is not fast. The key hash is hashed with SHA1 with a kernel of the SSID. This sings that the similar key on unlike SSIDs will produce unlike hashes. This averts us from merely using a multicolored table in contradiction of all APs. Cowpatty must catch the key list you deliver & calculate the hash with the SSID for every word. It is extremely slow.

Cowpatty now supports using a pre-calculated hash file rather than a bare-writing word file, creating the cracking of the WPA2-PSK key 1000x quicker! Pre-calculated hash files are accessible from the Ecclesiastical of WiFi, and these pre-calculated hash files are created using 172,000 vocabulary file and the 1,000 most common SSIDs. As valuable as this is, if your SSID is not in that 1,000, the hash list actually doesn't aid us.

In that situation, we have to create our personal hashes for our desired SSID. We can do this by using a program named genpmk. We can create our hash file for the "darkcode" wordlist for the SSID "Mandela2" by entering:

v  How to use our Hash

When we can finish creating our hashes for the specific SSIDs, we will be able then to crack the key with cowpatty by inputting:

I hope now you know how to hack wifi password wpa2-psk.

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