reaver (1) Linux Manual Page

Reaver – WPS Cracker

Synopsis

reaver -i <interface> -b <target bssid> -vv

Description

Reaver implements a brute force attack against WiFi Protected Setup which can crack the WPS pin of an access point in a matter of hours and subsequently recover the WPA/WPA2 passphrase.

Specifically, Reaver targets the registrar functionality of WPS, which is flawed in that it only takes 11,000 attempts to guess the correct WPS pin in order to become a WPS registrar. Once registred as a registrar with the access point, the access point will give you the WPA passphrase.

Options

-m, –mac=<mac>

MAC of the host system (should be resolved automatically)

-e, –essid=<ssid>

ESSID of the target AP. Unless cloaked, this will be resolved automatically.

-c, –channel=<channel>

Set the 802.11 channel for the interface (implies -f)

-o, –out-file=<file>

Send output to a log file [default: stdout]

-f, –fixed

Disable channel hopping

-5, –5ghz

Use 5GHz 802.11 channels

-v, –verbose

Display non-critical warnings (-vv for more)

-q, –quiet

Only display critical messages

-i, –interface=<wlan>

Name of the monitor-mode interface to use

-b, –bssid=<mac>

BSSID of the target AP

-p, –pin=<wps pin>

Use the specified WPS pin

-h, –help

Show help

Author

This manual page was written by Craig Heffner <cheffner [at] tacnetsol.com>, Tactical Network Solutions. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.