I recently picked up a new Alfa AWUS036NHA to play with for wireless testing, scanning, and general signal boosting.
Hardware
To start, the one I ordered came with a 9dBi antenna, which was awesome.
Once I got the device out of the box, I hooked it up to my workstation.
Alfa Network Awus036nh Wireless Usb Adapter free download - Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter, Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11b/g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adapter, 802.11g Wireless USB Adapter. After you select “Realtek RTL8187” it will add the device to USB Device Filters and you can click the “OK” button. Learning how to connect ALFA AWUS036H to Kali Linux in VirtualBox is pretty simple and after the wireless WiFi adapter is added to the USB Device Filters you can go ahead and boot up your Kali Linux virtual machine by clicking the green “Start” button.
Configuration
After I connected the card, VirtualBox detected it for USB pass-thru.
First, I wanted to set up a device filter so that it would automatically be connected to my VM.
That said, I ran into some issues with the default filter, so I had to create a blank filter with the proper values.
Once I created a new blank filter, I just added the appropriate Vendor ID and Product ID and saved it.
After I had the device filter setup, I detached the device from my workstation and logged into Kali. As you can see, there are no wireless devices connected to my VM yet.
I then connected my device to my workstation, VirtualBox detected it, and then automatically passed on to the VM. Dragon ball z xenoverse ppsspp download for android.
To verify the connection, I again ran iwconfig and had a wlan0 device this time.
Scanning
With everything properly connected and configured, it was time to set up monitor mode. To do this, I started airmon-ng on the wlan0 device.
I verified the monitor mode device by running ifconfig and viewing the output.
Once I put the device properly in monitor mode, then I ran airodump!
After letting this run for a while, I had a fair amount of SSIDs and beacons detected! Unfortunately, nothing in my immediate vicinity was running WEP.
Finally, I ran Wash to find out if there were any weak WPS devices that I could use to test out my new card.
Unfortunately, no low hanging fruit there either.
All in all, an easy to set up and use device that I'm looking forward to playing with for some wireless testing.
doylerRay Doyle is an avid pentester/security enthusiast/beer connoisseur who has worked in IT for almost 16 years now. From building machines and the software on them, to breaking into them and tearing it all down; he's done it all. To show for it, he has obtained an OSCE, OSCP, eCPPT, GXPN, eWPT, eWPTX, SLAE, eMAPT, Security+, ICAgile CP, ITIL v3 Foundation, and even a sabermetrics certification!He currently serves as a Senior Staff Adversarial Engineer for Avalara, and his previous position was a Principal Penetration Testing Consultant for Secureworks.
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