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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

During a wireless penetration test, you used airodump-ng in channel-hopping mode and successfully captured a complete four-way WPA2-PSK handshake, saved as "corp.cap." Following a standard wireless hacking methodology, which action should you perform next to obtain the network's pre-shared key without further interaction with the access point?

  • Run Reaver to perform an online brute-force of the access point's WPS PIN and extract the passphrase.

  • Use aircrack-ng with an appropriate dictionary file against the corp.cap capture to perform an offline WPA2-PSK crack.

  • Launch besside-ng to inject additional ARP requests until the access point discloses its encryption key in a packet.

  • Open corp.cap in Wireshark and enable WPA decryption to have the software reveal the passphrase automatically.

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Wireless Network Hacking
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