Kismet - Kali Linux

Kismet is a WIFI network analyzing tool. It is a 802.11 layer-2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It will work with any wireless card that supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a/b/g/n traffic. It identifies the networks by collecting packets and also hidden networks.

To use it, turn the wireless card into monitoring mode and to do this, type “airmon-ng start wlan-0” in the terminal.

Let’s learn how to use this tool.

Step 1 − To launch it, open terminal and type “kismet”.

Step 2 − Click “OK”.

Step 3 − Click “Yes” when it asks to start Kismet Server. Otherwise it will stop functioning.

Step 4 − Startup Options, leave as default. Click “Start”.

Step 5 − Now it will show a table asking you to define the wireless card. In such case, click Yes.

Step 6 − In this case, the wireless source is “wlan0”. It will have to be written in the section “Intf” → click “Add”.

Step 7 − It will start sniffing the wifi networks as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 8 − Click on any network, it produces the wireless details as shown in the following screenshot.