Hacking wifi using Aircrack-ng (Windows)

In the last post I've shown you the list of hacking tools that are used popularly. But, eventually In this post I'm going to show you how to crack passwords using Aircrack-ng. This is windows base aircrack-ng.

whenever we are going to crack the Wireless WEP key we always use backtrack . This post is all about cracking WEP keys without using Backtrack and in Windows.

Tools required:

1. Aircrack-ng (Windows based)

2. CommView for Wi-Fi

Here's the download link : http://www.tamos.com/download/main/ca.php

Now open “CommView” for Wifi and go to “file option” and click “file capture” like shown in the below image:

Then Click "start scanning'.

Once it starts to scan, you can see the results will be shown in the left box area.

It shows the network encryption type, SSID and MAC address. Then click on “capture” and wait for the packet data. You have to create a minimum of 5000 packets for cracking a WEP key. When the numbers of packets are high,

After getting enough number of packets. Click " stop capture ". After the capturing process is complete, it creates a log file in the “log folder”. You can check your log folder directory by clicking on “log tab”. In the figure below it shows the directory of “my log folder” which is in “my documents/CommView for Wifi/Logs”.

Now just double click on the file and a new window appears, then go to “file option” select “export logs” then select “Wireshark/Tcpdump format” and save your file. Now open your “Aircrack GUI” and browse for your saved capture file as shown in the figure below:

After that click on the “launch button” then a cmd window appears, asking for index no. of target network. enter the the number. like we have entered 1 as an example. Then press enter.