Reaver(1)

📦 version 1.6.6, in arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

Reaver — bestie, this is the WPS Cracker 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so Reaver runs a brute force attack against WiFi Protected Setup, and the way it can crack the WPS pin of an access point in a matter of hours and then recover the WPA/WPA2 passphrase after?? it's giving main character energy, no cap. 🎀

Specifically — and this is the part that lives in my head rent free — Reaver targets the registrar functionality of WPS, which is lowkey flawed in that it only takes 11,000 attempts to guess the correct WPS pin in order to become a WPS registrar. And once you're registered as a registrar with the access point, the access point will just hand you the WPA passphrase. Like. It's that easy. 😭✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -m, --mac=<mac> — MAC of the host system (it should be resolved automatically, so like, it usually just knows 🫶)
  • -e, --essid=<ssid> — ESSID of the target AP. Unless it's cloaked, this will be resolved automatically too ✨
  • -c, --channel=<channel> — Set the 802.11 channel for the interface (heads up bestie, this 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 (and -vv for more, obviously)
  • -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@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 — and the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 📜

And that's the whole thing, bestie!! Version 1.3, dated 29 December, 2011 — iconic behavior from the General Commands Manual era. slay, stay safe, and only point this at networks you actually own 💖✨🎀

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