During a wireless penetration test, you have already enabled monitor mode with airmon-ng and are passively capturing traffic with airodump-ng. To trigger a WPA2 four-way handshake more quickly, you want to force a connected station to drop and immediately reconnect to the target access point. Which specific utility from the aircrack-ng suite is designed to transmit the necessary deauthentication frames that accomplish this task?
The aircrack-ng component responsible for actively injecting frames is aireplay-ng. Its deauth option (-- deauth) sends IEEE 802.11 management frames that disassociate or deauthenticate a client, causing the client to reauthenticate and generate a fresh four-way handshake that can be captured by airodump-ng for offline cracking with aircrack-ng.
airdecap-ng is only for decrypting previously captured traffic; it does not transmit frames.
airbase-ng sets up rogue access points or performs KARMA-style attacks but is not used for deauthentication injection.
packetforge-ng creates custom packets (e.g., ARP requests) for WEP injection attacks and likewise does not handle deauthentication.
Therefore, aireplay-ng is the correct choice for forcing reconnections during WPA/WPA2 handshake harvesting.
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