hcxtools

Small set of tools convert packets from captures (h = hash, c = capture, convert and calculate candidates, x = different hashtypes) for the use with latest hashcat or John the Ripper. The tools are 100% compatible to hashcat and John the Ripper and recommended by hashcat. This branch is pretty closely synced to hashcat git and John the Ripper git.

Support of hashcat hash-modes: 4800, 5500, 2200x, 16100, 250x (deprecated), 1680x (deprecated)

Support of John the Ripper hash-modes: WPAPSK-PMK, PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1, chap, netntlm, tacacs-plus

Support of gzip (.gz) single file compression.

Main purpose is to detect weak points within own WiFi networks by analyzing the hashes. Therefore convert the dump file to WPA-PBKDF2-PMKID+EAPOL hash file and check if wlan-key or plainmasterkey was transmitted unencrypted. Or upload the "uncleaned" dump file (pcapng, pcap, cap) here https://wpa-sec.stanev.org/?submit to find out if your ap or the client is vulnerable by using common wordlists or a weak password generation algorithm.

Brief description

Multiple stand-alone binaries - designed to run on Arch Linux, but other Linux distributions should work, too.

All of these utilities are designed to execute only one specific function.

hcxdumptool moved to: https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool

Read this post: hcxtools - solution for capturing wlan traffic and conversion to hashcat formats (https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6661.html)

Read this post: New attack on WPA/WPA2 using PMKID (https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html)

Read this post: Hash mode 22000 explained (https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-10253.html)

Read this wiki: https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=cracking_wpawpa2

Unsupported: Windows OS, macOS, Android, emulators or wrappers and NETLINK!

Detailed description

Workflow

hcxdumptool -> hcxpcapngtool -> hcxhashtool (additional hcxpsktool/hcxeiutool) -> hashcat or JtR

hcxdumptool: attack and capture everything (depending on options)

hcxpcapngtool: convert everything

hcxhashtool: filter hashes

hcxpsktool: get weak PSK candidates

hcxeiutool: calculate wordlists from ESSID

hashcat or JtR: get PSK from hash

Get source

git clone https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools.git
cd hcxtools

Compile

make
make install (as super user)

Or install via packet manager of your distribution

Arch Linux

Arch Linux pacman -S hcxtools

Arch Linux ARM

Arch Linux ARM pacman -S hcxtools

BlackArch

Black Arch is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers
pacman -S hcxtools

Kali Linux

apt install hcxtools

OpenWRT

opkg install hcxtools

macOS

Homebrew is 3-rd party package manager for macOS
brew install hcxtools

Requirements

• knowledge of radio technology
• knowledge of electromagnetic-wave engineering
• detailed knowledge of 802.11 protocol
• detailed knowledge of key derivation functions
• detailed knowledge of Linux
• Linux (recommended Arch Linux, but other distros should work, too (no support for other distributions).
• gcc >= 11 recommended (deprecated versions are not supported: https://gcc.gnu.org/)
• libopenssl and openssl-dev installed
• librt and librt-dev installed (should be installed by default)
• zlib and zlib-dev installed (for gzip compressed cap/pcap/pcapng files)
• libcurl and curl-dev installed (used by whoismac and wlancap2wpasec)
• libpthread and pthread-dev installed (used by hcxhashcattool)
• pkg-config installed

To install requirements on Kali use the following 'apt-get install pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev'

If you decide to compile latest git head, make sure that your distribution is updated on latest version.

Useful scripts

Notice

Most output files will be appended to existing files (with the exception of pcapng, pcap, cap files).

It is recommended to use hash mode 22000 (22001) instead of deprecated hash modes 2500 (2501) and 16800 (16801)

hcxtools are designed to be analysis tools. This means that everything is converted by default and unwanted information must be filtered out!

Bitmask message pair field (hcxpcapngtool)

bit 0-2

000 = M1+M2, EAPOL from M2 (challenge)

001 = M1+M4, EAPOL from M4 if not zeroed (authorized)

010 = M2+M3, EAPOL from M2 (authorized)

011 = M2+M3, EAPOL from M3 (authorized) - unused

100 = M3+M4, EAPOL from M3 (authorized) - unused

101 = M3+M4, EAPOL from M4 if not zeroed (authorized)

3: reserved

4: ap-less attack (set to 1) - no nonce-error-corrections necessary

5: LE router detected (set to 1) - nonce-error-corrections only for LE necessary

6: BE router detected (set to 1) - nonce-error-corrections only for BE necessary

7: not replaycount checked (set to 1) - replaycount not checked, nonce-error-corrections definitely necessary