How to install aircrack-ng suite on the Raspberry Pi
About: In some cases you may need to install the aircrack-ng suite on a Raspberry Pi that’s dedicated to hacking like the official Raspbian distro. That’s not a problem. Installing aircrack-ng on the Raspberry Pi is very easy and I’ll show you how to get it up and running in just a few steps. This tutorial is also useful if you need to update your aircrack-ng suite when using Kali or PwnPi that comes with an older version.
Objective: To demonstrate how to install aircrack-ng suite on the Raspbian distro for the Raspberry Pi
Material: You will need the following:
- Raspberry Pi
- USB Wireless Adapter (I use the Alpha AWUS036H in this tutorial)
Instructions: Let’s begin by installing the libraries that are needed to get aircrack-ng to work on the Raspberry Pi. Type in the following command:
1 | apt-get -y install libssl-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev ethtool |
Now that we have the libraries downloaded and installed, run the following commands to download the latest version of aircrack-ng and then we’ll unzip it and install it. You may want to check out the aircrack-ng download page here and verify the url of the latest linux version. I tested this tutorial with aircrack-ng 1.2-RC3.
1 2 3 4 5 | wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.2-rc3.tar.gz tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-1.2-rc3.tar.gz cd aircrack-ng-1.2-rc3 sudo make sudo make install |
After we have built aircrack-ng from the source and installed it we will need to update the IEEE OUI file. The OUI is most often used to create IEEE 802-defined MAC addresses and we need it to run aircrack-ng
1 | sudo airodump-ng-oui-update |
That’s it. aircrack-ng is now installed and ready to go. We will now test it by putting our wireless card into monitor mode with the following command:
1 | sudo airmon-ng start wlan0 |
This should put our wireless card into monitor mode and it will create a new interface called ‘wlan0mon’ which we will use in the next step to see what networks are around us. Type the following command to see what networks are around us:
1 | sudo airodump-ng wlan0mon |
If you see a list of networks around you then you are done! If you have any questions post a comment below and I’ll try to help you out.
Jang
April 6, 2016Hello! Thanks for giving this information!
By the way, when I trying to ‘airodump-ng-oui-update’, it is running [*] Downloading IEEE OUI file… , and after about 5hours, I received message.
‘[*] Error: Failed to download OUI list, aborting…’.
What’s wrong in my raspberry?!
Please help me..
dayz
April 6, 2016It looks like there is a new version of aircrack-ng, aircrack-ng 1.2-RC4 and they updated the OUI url. Give this a shot
Use this command to get the latest version:
wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4.tar.gz
tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4.tar.gz
cd aircrack-ng-1.2-rc3
sudo make
sudo make install
cracker
October 12, 2016wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4.tar.gz
tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4.tar.gz
cd aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4
sudo make
sudo make install
chidambaram
October 7, 2016just to re correct the third line, *cd aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4
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Manoel Stilpen
May 11, 2017Why it’s necessary a USB Wireless Adapter ?
dayz
May 22, 2017The onboard WiFi adapter on the Raspberry Pi 3 is unable to go into monitor mode which is what we need.
Christopher
July 10, 2017I am currently ssh’ing into my Pi from my notebook computer using my wifi adaptor. Will I be able to put the adapter into monitor mode and maintain my connection to ssh? I currently do not have a monitor but I do have a console cable that I can use if necessary. I wanted to keep the Pi in another room running while I work on the notebook in another room.
Any feedback is appreciated.
parsa
December 2, 2017hi Christopher
yes you can
i do it with my phone ,vnc on onboard wifi and wifi hacking and monitor mode on external wifi adapter
Umair
August 24, 2017I have used raspberry pi 3 with kali linux and there was no need of wireless adapter…is this specific with raspbian..??
Rik
September 27, 2017@Dayz
Thank you very much sir!
Got it installed on my first-gen 5 YO Raspberry Pi B.
FYI: Because I had OpenSSL 1.1.0 on my fresh Raspbian install, compilation ended in error, like “storage size of ‘ctx’ isn’t known”. To make it compile, I had to revert to the OpenSSL 1.0 DEV library. So I changed the first line. Here’s how it worked for me today, installing the RC4 of Aircrack :
sudo apt-get -y install libssl1.0-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev ethtool
wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4.tar.gz
tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4.tar.gz
cd aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo airodump-ng-oui-update
Cheers!
Rik
September 27, 2017@Christopher
Not sure if you can, I got myself a second Wi-Fi dongle of type Ralink RT5370, that supports monitor mode. It costs me 4 USD (http://www.ebay.com/itm/802-11n-g-b-150Mbps-Mini-USB-WiFi-Wireless-Adapter-Network-Ralink-RT5370-/282100006228?hash=item41ae787d54:g:a9gAAOSwRgJXhlEl). Runs fine as wlan1 next to the LAN adapter at wlan0.
Tech49
October 22, 2017To counter the errors from crypto.c during ‘make’ phase, also pre install [ libssl1.0-dev ]
You now receive warnings but you can safely ignore those.
(taken from https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=172407)
Mingus
November 12, 2017When running ‘make’ I get the following error message. Any suggestions?
crypto.c:291:11: error: storage size of ‘ctx’ isn’t known
HMAC_CTX ctx;
^~~
crypto.c:317:2: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘HMAC_CTX_init’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
HMAC_CTX_init(&ctx);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
crypto.c:327:2: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘HMAC_CTX_cleanup’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
HMAC_CTX_cleanup(&ctx);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
crypto.c:291:11: warning: unused variable ‘ctx’ [-Wunused-variable]
HMAC_CTX ctx;
^~~
crypto.c: In function ‘calc_tkip_mic_key’:
crypto.c:932:5: warning: this ‘if’ clause does not guard… [-Wmisleading-indentation]
if((ptr-message) % 4 > 0)
^~
crypto.c:933:49: note: …this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it is guarded by the ‘if’
memcpy(ptr, ZERO, 4-((ptr-message)%4)); ptr+=4-((ptr-message)%4);
^~~
: recipe for target ‘crypto.o’ failed
make[1]: *** [crypto.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/pi/aircrack-ng-1.2-rc3/src’
Makefile:25: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Charlie
November 15, 2017libssl1.0-dev for Raspi 3 Stretch
SISY
December 25, 2017: recipe for target ‘crypto.o’ failed
make[1]: *** [crypto.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/aircrack-ng-1.2-rc3/src’
Makefile:25: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make: *** [all] Error 2