During a wireless assessment, no stations are associated with the target WPA2-PSK access point, preventing a traditional four-way handshake capture. You decide to launch the PMKID attack, which only needs frames transmitted by the access point itself. Which open-source tool set should you employ to sniff the PMKID and then convert the capture into a hashcat-compatible hash for offline cracking?
The PMKID attack requests or passively collects Robust Security Network (RSN) management or EAPOL frames that some access points transmit containing a PMKID value. Hcxdumptool is built to capture these frames without requiring any client association, and hcxpcapngtool converts the resulting pcapng file directly into a hashcat-ready hash (mode 22000). Aireplay-ng and airodump-ng can record conventional four-way handshakes but cannot, by themselves, extract PMKIDs; Reaver and Bully target WPS PIN brute-forcing; and while Kismet with Tshark can log traffic, they lack the dedicated PMKID-to-hashcat conversion workflow provided by the hcx tools.
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