Video tutorial: Installing AirPWN on Ubuntu Linux 9.10

Video tutorial of my last article on Installing AirPWN.

Read on for the text version.

What is AirPWN?

AirPWN? is a tool that first debuted at DefCon 12.

AirPWN? acts as a man in the middle tool for wireless networks. It takes advantage of the time that a website takes to respond to normal page requests. In that lag time, it can inject its own content onto the wireless channel of an access point. For instance, you may request a page from wikipedia.org that takes, round-trip, approximately 125 ms. If someone near you is running the airpwn tool, it will see your request and immediately respond with its own web page and/or content because it is much closer and takes much less time to respond. When your computer receives the data, it will think the original request was answered and display the page. When the real web page is presented, it will either ignore the page, or display some of the content. AirPWN? can be configured to carefully craft responses so that your browser will ignore the real web content as it would with html comments.

In this article, I will walk you through installing AirPWN? on Ubuntu Linux Desktop and Servers.

Note: This article assumes that you have the tools installed and you have a supported wireless card! If not, you're on your own trying to figure out how to put your card into monitor mode.

1) Download AirPWN?

# wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/airpwn/airpwn-1.4.tgz

2) Extract the AirPWN package

# tar zxvf airpwn-1.4.tgz

3) Change to the AirPWN directory

# cd airpwn-1.4

4) Extract Lorcon Package

# tar zxvf lorcon-current.tgz

5) Change to the Lorcon directory

# cd lorcon-current

6) Edit your wireless.h header file before compiling Lorcon

# sudo nano /usr/include/linux/wireless.h

Add: #include < linux/if.h > (REMOVE THE SPACES BETWEEN THE BRACKETS! MY WEBSERVER WONT DISPLAY IT IF I POST IT WITHOUT THE SPACES, PLEASE REMOVE THEM)

Above:
#ifndef _LINUX_WIRELESS_H
#define _LINUX_WIRELESS_H

7) Configure Lorcon

# sudo ./configure

8) Install Lorcon

# sudo make && sudo make install

9) Change back to the AirPWN directory

# cd ..

10) Install AirPWN dependencies

# sudo apt-get install libnet1-dev libpcap-dev python2.4-dev libpcre3-dev libssl-dev

11) Configure AirPWN

# sudo ./configre

12) Install AirPWN

# sudo make && sudo make install

13) Start your wireless card in monitor mode with airmon-ng (Note: replace "wlan0" with whatever wireless interface you are using!)

# sudo airmon-ng start wlan0

14) Start AirPWN with default greet injection conf

# sudo airpwn -c conf/greet_html -d madwifing -i mon0 -v

15) AirPWN!

Fire up a browser on another computer and you should see a blinking "I'm in your wirelezz!" message on any page that's loaded.