During a wireless assessment you want to minimize manual effort. After putting your wireless adapter into monitor mode, you need one program that will automatically identify WPA/WPA2-protected access points, send deauthentication frames to capture four-way handshakes, hand those captures to aircrack-ng for dictionary cracking, and, when WPS is enabled, launch a Pixie-Dust PIN attack-all from a single interactive script. Which tool best fits this requirement?
Wifite (wifite2 in current releases) is a Python-based bash script that automates the full workflow of wireless penetration testing. It continuously scans for nearby networks, issues deauth frames to force new WPA/WPA2 handshakes, saves the captures, and then calls aircrack-ng or hashcat to perform dictionary attacks. If it detects WPS-enabled targets, it can automatically invoke Reaver or PixieWPS to exploit the Pixie-Dust vulnerability and recover the WPS PIN and pre-shared key. Kismet is a powerful passive sniffer but does not automate active attacks or cracking. Reaver is limited to online WPS PIN brute-forcing and lacks handshake capture and cracking functions. Aircrack-ng is an offline cracker only; it does not handle discovery, deauth, or Pixie-Dust automation by itself. Therefore, wifite2 is the only option that provides the complete integrated workflow described.
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