October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 33m
English
book
Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition
by Shiva V. N. Parasram, Alex Samm, Damian Boodoo, Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
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PixieWPS
PixieWPS is an offline brute-forcing tool that is utilized to reverse the PIN of a WPS wireless access point. The name of PixieWPS comes from the Pixie-Dust attack that was discovered by Dominique Bongard. This vulnerability allows for the brute forcing of the WPS PIN. (For more detailed information on this vulnerability, see Bongard's presentation: https://passwordscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dominique_Bongard.pdf.)
To access PixieWPS, type the following into Command Prompt:
# pixiewps
The command will give you the different command options. In order for PixieWPS to work properly, a good deal of information must be obtained. This includes the following:
- Enrollee public key
- Registrant public key
- Enrollee Hash-1
- Enrollee ...
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