Pineapple as WiFI Surveyor

[xXNirvashXx]

Hey Guys,

I do a bit of walking for fitness and as a concept would I be able to use Wifi Pineapple as Google style BSSID and other metadata surveyor? So say I put the pineapple in my bag and just walk my usual route and see how many wifi, bssid, signal strength ect... I can pick up ?

I've tried Site Survey addon but it seem there is no way to make a file with all the data and I'd have to constantly look at my phone as I walk.

Thanks :)

[inTheDMZ]

You could install kismet on the pineapple but I would say their are devices better suited to the job, even a wr703n with a battery pack should pick up quite a few devices.

[laputa:)]

I tried kismet in the past, worked well, but I couldn't get it to channel hop, was stuck on channel 1 or 11 (can't remember which). Haven't tried kismet with the pineapple for a while so this issue could have been fixed now or it could just have been something I was doing wrong.

[inTheDMZ]

You need to script the channel hopping, I had kismet drone running on the wr703n and the wr840nd and both worked well

[laputa:)]

Could you give me a clue on what you mean by 'script the channel hopping'?? I wouldn't mind getting this working if I can. Thanks in advance.

[inTheDMZ]

Try here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Channel_hopping_on_kismet_drone

Install kismet, and in the /etc/rc.local put the wireless interface in monitor mode, give me 20mins and I will dig the script out.

Edit: this is my rc.local file:

# Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
# the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.
airmon-ng stop wlan0
sleep 10
iwconfig wlan0 mode moniter
sleep 10
kismet_drone &
exit 0

obviously i had the aircrack-ng suite installed, and it may not be the most elegant of scripts but it worked for me

Edited August 14, 2013 by inTheDMZ

[laputa:)]

Thanks for that! I will give it a go and see if I can get it to work

[inTheDMZ]

Try without the channel hopping script first, time sure most hardware just needs its WiFi interface in monitor mode and it works pretty much out the box

[xXNirvashXx]

Thank for all the replies :) It was just a spontaneous idea, Ill have a look into wr703n