
Statistically you have a 50% chance of cracking the WPS PIN in half of the time. On average Reaver can recover the passphrase from vulnerable routers in 4-10 hours, depending on the access point, signal strength and the PIN itself off course. In order to use Reaver you need a good signal strength to the wireless router together with the right configuration. Since many router manufacturers and ISPs turn on WPS by default a lot of routers are vulnerable to this attack out of the box. Reaver performs brute force attacks against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs to recover the WPA/WPA2 passphrase. Reaver is another popular tool for hacking wireless networks and targets specifically WPS vulnerabilities. Number 2 in the Top 10 Wifi Hacking Tools is Reaver. If you plan to use this tool you have to make sure your Wifi card is capable of packet injection. The Aicrack-ng suite is available for Linux and comes standard with Kali Linux.

– Airbase-ng to configure fake access points – Aireplay-ng to generate traffic and client de-authentication


– Aircrack-ng for wireless password cracking Aicrack-ng is an all-in-one suite containing the following tools (among others): The Aircrack-ng suite contains tools to capture packets and handshakes, de-authenticate connected clients and generate traffic and tools to perform brute force and dictionary attacks. Aircrack is one of the most popular tools for WEP/WPA/WPA2 cracking.
