Hacking howto
- Spoofing Ethernet Mac address:
  - using ifconfig:
  - using ip:
- Capturing traffic:
  - Using iwconfig:
  - Using airmon-ng:

Hacking howto

Spoofing Ethernet Mac address:

To spoof the MAC address of the NIC we can use a ifconfig and ip. Remember that spoofing the MAC address using these tools is only done in RAM; a reboot will return the MAC address to the actual hardware address.

using ifconfig:

ifconfig (to find device)
ifconfig wlan0/eth0 down
ifconfig wlan0/eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
ifconfig wlan0/eth0 up
ifconfig (to check)

using ip:

ip link show interface (where interface is the name of the nic)
# this will give you the mac address: link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ip link set dev interface down (where interface is the name of the nic)
ip link set dev interface address 11:22:33:44:55:66
ip link set dev interface up
ip link show interface # to check

Capturing traffic:

In order to hack a (wireless) connection we need to be able to sniff the traffic on a network. For this we need the NIC we use to capture all traffic, including traffic for another destination.

iwconfig
eth0    no wireless extensions
wlan0   IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any
        Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
        ...
        ...

Mode:Managed means the NIC only captures traffic meant for its address.

There are 2 methods of changing the mode to Monitor (which captures all traffic) and dependant of the NIC/chipset one of these methods will probably work:

Using iwconfig:

ifconfig wlan0 down                      # bring NIC down
airmon-ng check kill                     # to stop any running processes using the NIC

Killing these processes:
  PID  Name
  719  wpa_supplicant
11318  dhclient

iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor              # capture all traffic

ifconfig wlan0 up                        # bring NIC up

iwconfig
eth0    no wireless extensions
wlan0   IEEE 802.11 Mode:Monitor Frequency:2.412 GHz Tx-Power=20 dBm
        ...
        ...

Now the NIC captures all traffic (Mode:Monitor)

Using airmon-ng:

ifconfig wlan0 down                      # bring NIC down
airmon-ng check kill                     # to stop any running processes using the NIC

Killing these processes:
  PID  Name
  719  wpa_supplicant
11318  dhclient

airmon-ng start wlan0                   # bring wlan0 adapter in //monitor// mode

PHY    Interface  Driver       Chipset
phy3   wlan0      ath9k_htc    IMC Networks

          (mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy3]wlan0 on [phy3]wlan0mon)
          (mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy3]wlan0)
iwconfig
eth0       no wireless extensions
wlan0mon   IEEE 802.11 Mode:Monitor Frequency:2.412 GHz Tx-Power=20 dBm
           ...
           ...

Now the NIC captures all traffic (Mode:Monitor) **Notice that using airmon-ng a new device (wlan0mon) is created and wlan0 no longer exists. Also we do not need to bring the interface up manually.

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