Aircrack-ng

v1.7Aircrack-ng Project

Airodump-ng captures, aireplay-ng injects, aircrack-ng cracks the handshake. The range provides authored handshake captures and BSSIDs; no radio is touched.

Category: Credential attack & password auditing
Package: aircrack-ng
Runs on: Linux
Commands: aircrack-ng, airodump-ng, aireplay-ng, airmon-ng

Reads authored handshake captures. No wireless interface is ever placed in monitor mode.

Install it

The scripts below install the real Aircrack-ng Project package on your own machine — read them first, and run them somewhere you are allowed to change. Inside the range, one press puts the simulated package on your next machine.

Linux installer (shell script)

install-aircrack.sh

Windows installer (PowerShell)

Install-aircrack.ps1

No native Windows build. Use a Linux host in the range, or run it under WSL.

On a range machine

Add it to your kit and every machine you launch comes with it.

On Linux

Debian, Ubuntu, Kali (apt)

Refresh the package lists
```
sudo apt update
```
Install Aircrack-ng
```
sudo apt install -y aircrack-ng
```

RHEL, Fedora (dnf)

Install Aircrack-ng
```
sudo dnf install -y aircrack-ng
```
Package names drift between distributions; search first if this one misses.

Arch (pacman)

Install Aircrack-ng
```
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm aircrack-ng
```

Alpine (apk)

Install Aircrack-ng
```
sudo apk add aircrack-ng
```
Package names drift between distributions; search first if this one misses.

Check it worked

Confirm it landed on PATH
```
which aircrack-ng
```
Check the version
```
aircrack-ng --version
```
The range reports 1.7.

Remove it

Take it off again
```
sudo apt remove --purge aircrack-ng
```

On Windows

No native Windows build. Use a Linux host in the range, or run it under WSL.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Install a Linux userland on the Windows host
```
wsl --install -d Ubuntu
```
The upstream project has no native Windows build; WSL is the usual way round it.
Install Aircrack-ng inside it
```
wsl sudo apt install -y aircrack-ng
```

Inside the range

Tick it on the launch screen
Under Aircrack-ng's category on the advanced tool shelf. A lab that depends on it locks the toggle on and says why.
Or install it from a range terminal
```
sudo apt install -y aircrack-ng
```
The simulated package manager seeds the same binaries, config and receipt the shelf toggle does.
Everything here is simulated
No software is downloaded and nothing executes — the range answers from authored fixtures.

Labs that use Aircrack-ng

Pentest: Wireless AssessmentSit in an authorized coffee-shop parking lot, sweep the 2.4/5 GHz bands, capture the guest-WPA2 handshake, crack it against a scoped wordlist, then file a rotation-and-802.1X finding on the corporate SSID.