🎯 What You'll Learn
- Detect WPS-enabled access points
- Run online PIN brute forcing
- Perform offline (Pixie-Dust) recovery
- Recommend disabling WPS
Overview
WPS was meant to make Wi-Fi setup easy and instead opened brute-force and offline attack paths. This lab covers PIN brute forcing and Pixie-Dust style attacks.
Core Topics
- WPS PIN design
- Online brute forcing
- Offline recovery
- Mitigations
Prerequisites
A working KaliRange lab environment and comfort with the Linux command line.
Recommended Workflow
- Spin up the target in your KaliRange lab environment and confirm connectivity.
- Enumerate the target thoroughly before touching any exploit — information first.
- Reproduce each technique by hand so you understand why it works, not just the command.
- Capture evidence (commands, output, screenshots) as you go.
- Write a short note on how a defender would detect or prevent what you just did.
Only ever run these techniques against systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Practise inside your own KaliRange lab.
Your Goal
Work through every task in your own lab, document your findings as you would on a real engagement, then note the defensive takeaways.
Ready to practise. Work through the steps above at your own pace, then move on to a related lab.