Two questions about Wifi hacking

[Axon]

1- Is it possible to hack a wireless network without being connected to any wifi hotspot. Just using your carrier as a service provider for internet ?
2- Is it possible to hack a wireless network while connected to another wireless network. Same principle as using Aircrack-ng suite from a PC?

[Snayler]

Are these questions? Where are the question marks?

1. You don't need internet access to be able to crack a wireless key. Just need the right tools installed.
2. Yes, as long as you have two wireless cards.

EDIT: Oh, this is android section, I missed that. But the principles should be the same, I guess.

[Axon]

Are these questions? Where are the question marks?

1. You don't need internet access to be able to crack a wireless key. Just need the right tools installed.
2. Yes, as long as you have two wireless cards.

EDIT: Oh, this is android section, I missed that. But the principles should be the same, I guess.

OK I edited the first post.
1- I didn't explain it correctly, what i meant is to hack the wifi while you're not connected to any wireless network.
2- Yes this is the Android section, since I've read a lot about android penetration testing. I've never come across an attempt to penetrate a wireless network from an android device, in the same way of using the aircrack-suite.

[Snayler]

I've heard about developments being made in that area. Don't know how advanced it is now, though. I think DeepCopy nows some more about the matter, but he seems to not be around much lately.

[Axon]

I've heard about developments being made in that area. Don't know how advanced it is now, though. I think DeepCopy nows some more about the matter, but he seems to not be around much lately.

Thanks for the help.

[Kulverstukas]

You won't do much of pentesting with android, not to mention wifi cracking, and that is because of hardware and software limitations, tho I am sure in the future android will become more of a pentesting suite and we'll see android roms for pentesting appearing like mushrooms after the rain.

For now you might want to stick with "Nokia N900", that one comes as close as it can be to what you have in mind.

inb4 pwnphone

[Mordred]

Although my answer is not an answer to your questions, I wanted to show you this article from mobileprivacy.org titled :"Mobile Penetration Testing: There’s An App For That". It's basically a small guide on how to setup your android device to be a more or less efficient pen-testing tool.

A friend of mine who isn't that active on this forum, xciter, set up a Motorola Xoom tablet with all these tools and it's pretty interesting. Although you can't do a lot of serious work, it might come in hand if you work in the field and want to expose some weaknesses on the fly (to convince a client or whatnot maybe?).

[iTpHo3NiX]

@Axon

You can do Wifi cracking with an Android device, however I wouldn't for certain situations. For WEP, you may be able to on an Android phone without much issue, however it's more beneficial for obtaining WPA(2) handshakes to take offsite and crack with a real computer. In order to capture handshakes it's a pretty pain in the ass setup that is required.

1. You need a device that supports USB OTG (On-The-Go) or build your devices kernel to recognize it.
2. Get an external wireless adapter that can be put into monitor mode (make sure its a wifi device that can inject as well)
3. Compile your kernel to be able to insmod your wireless drivers
4. Use a chrooted kali/backtrack setup after insmodding your drivers
5. Use aircrack suite to obtain handshake
6. Take capture file to a beast computer and use a GPU enabled cracker to do the actual cracking whether it be bruteforce or dictionary.

Possible, but not very pretty. There will come a day when you can natively get Kali onto any android device which would make the process much more simple as its a lot more easy to add drivers to a full *nix distro then to hack it into Android.

http://www.maxters.net/

This guy started to talk about how to compile wireless driver modules for android and has successfully managed to get them to work on Galaxy Note 2, and some international versions of GS3.

Also of course any of this would require your device to be rooted. I broke my GS3 so I never did finish my testing. Never did get the kernel to compile properly.