Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

Hashcat is purpose-built for high-speed, offline password cracking. It supports WPA/WPA2 4-way handshake files and can leverage modern GPUs to test millions of candidate keys per second, making it ideal for quickly checking a large wordlist when no client is available for further interaction. Reaver targets WPS PIN brute forcing against live access points and cannot process captured handshakes offline. mdk4 is primarily used for packet injection, jamming, and other wireless testing frames rather than key recovery. Kismet functions as a passive Wi-Fi sniffer and IDS; it does not perform dictionary or brute-force attacks on captured handshakes.