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Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition
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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
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Passive sniffing

In passive sniffing, we are not authenticated to the network. If we suspect that there is the possibility of alerting such intrusion-prevention controls as rogue-host detection, this is a good way to avoid those controls while still gaining potentially confidential information:

  1. Passively scan for wireless traffic on a target network. Ensure you have your wireless card in monitor mode:
    # airmon-ng start wlan0  
  1. Use the airodump-ng tool to sniff the network traffic, the same way that we did during the WPA-cracking section:
    # airodump-ng wlan0mon -c 6 --bssid 44:94:FC:37:10:6E -w wificrack
  1. Run the tool as long as you want. To ensure that we can decrypt the traffic, we will need to ensure we capture the full four-way handshake, ...
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ISBN: 9781789341768