COWPATTY(1)

👑 COWPATTY — the manual, bestie (User Commands, section 1)

okay so first of all, hi, welcome, you're in the right place 💖 this is the manual page for cowpatty, a whole icon, and I'm gonna walk you through every single bit of it. no gatekeeping here. grab a snack 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

cowpatty — brute-force dictionary attack against WPA-PSK 🔥

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It's an implementation of an offline dictionary attack against WPA/WPA2 networks that use PSK-based authentication (think WPA-Personal, yeah that one) 🦋

like. it takes your wordlist and just goes. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cowpatty < -d | -r > < HASH-FILE | CAPTURE-FILE > -f WORDLIST -s SSID

the way that it needs a hash file or a capture file, plus a wordlist, plus the SSID… it's giving very structured, very demure, very mindful 💅

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -f — the dictionary file. your wordlist. the whole buffet of passwords you're feeding it 🍓
• -d — hash file (made with genpmk) 🧚
• -r — packet capture file 📦
• -s — the network SSID. put it in quotes if your SSID has spaces in it, bestie, or it's gonna get messy 😭
• -c — checks for valid 4-way frames. it does not crack anything, it's just doing a vibe check on your frames 👀
• -h — prints this help info and then dips. exit, gone, bye ✌️
• -v — verbose info. and like… you can stack it: more -v means more verbosity. the more the merrier, fr fr ✨
• -V — prints the program version and exits 🎀

okay but real talk — notice how -d and -r are mutually exclusive up in the synopsis? you pick one. not both. choose your fighter 💀

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

cowpatty was developed by Joshua Wright <jwright@hwillhackforsushi.com> 🫶

This manual page was written by Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org> for the Debian project, and it was based on the cowpatty -h output, and honestly? it can be used by other projects too. sharing is caring 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• genpmk(1)
• aircrack-ng(1)
• airodump-ng(1)
• airmon-ng(1)
• wifite(1)

the whole squad, the friend group, the group chat 👑 go read them too.

and that's the page!! 🎉 cowpatty 4.6, June 2018 — that's the version and the date, mwah, no notes 💋 go be a main character with your wordlist, ily, stay safe, periodt 💅✨