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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

During a wireless penetration test you discover a WPA2-PSK access point, but there are no connected stations, so capturing the usual four-way handshake with airodump-ng is impractical. You decide to attempt the client-less PMKID attack instead. Which toolchain available on Kali Linux will both capture frames that contain the PMKID and convert the resulting capture into the hash format required by Hashcat's mode 22000?

  • Use airodump-ng with the --write option, then run airdecap-ng to pull out the PMKID.

  • Capture with hcxdumptool and convert the .pcapng using hcxpcapngtool to produce a mode 22000 hash.

  • Collect traffic in Kismet and export the log to cowpatty for PMKID extraction and cracking.

  • Record frames with tshark, generate a word list with crunch, and feed both directly into Hashcat.

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