Pineapple Setup
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Summary
Setup and Firmware upgrade [optional] of Wifi Pineapple Nano
Requirements
- Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic amd64
Description
Basic setup
- Connect antennas and USB Y cable, WiFi Pineapple NANO needs a stable USB power supply capable of providing 9W for initial setup. Therefore plug both USB Ports of USB Y cable into the Laptop. After that he blue led should have solid light.
- Use lusb to verify that pineapple ASIX Electronics is recognized by your laptop
lsusb ... Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b95:772a ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88772A Fast Ethernet ...
- Check networking interface and ip address
sudo ifconfig enx00c0ca91b581: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.16.42.107 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 172.16.42.255 inet6 fe80::d2b0:568c:b39b:4c44 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 00:c0:ca:91:b5:81 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 15 bytes 1589 (1.5 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 40 bytes 5589 (5.4 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
- Browse to the determined IP address 172.16.42.1:1471
The Web interface should appear. The interface then appearing is the main User Interface (UI) where the user is able to work with the WiFi Pineapple Nano. This UI is further described in: https://wiki.elvis.science/index.php?title=Wifi_Pineapple_Nano
User Interface
After connecting the Pineapple Nano to your device correctly as can be seen above, a User Interface (UI) opens under the IP address 172.16.42.1:1471
The User Interface is the main working space for the penetration tester. The UI includes:
- Dashboard - shows the uptime of the device, the clients connected and the SSIDs in the pool
- Recon - scanning the Network
- Clients - List of Clients connected
- Tracking
- Modules - List of downloadable Modules
- Filters - Filtering Clients and connections
- PineAP - Main part of creating a new WiFi where youc an see the SSID pool, add and remove them and start it in order for the SSIDs to be public
- Logging
- Reporting
- Networking
- Configuration
- Advances
- Notes
- Help
Upgrade to newest firmware version 2.5.4 [optional]
- Download newest firmware from https://www.wifipineapple.com/downloads and verify shasum:
sha256sum upgrade-2.5.4.bin 98b6190393ed3bc270966645f94a4fdbe21ea8f2d74dec88d88267fe60d3dc85 upgrade-2.5.4.bin
- Select file with newest firmware upgrade-2.5.4.bin in the Web interface
- press reset button
- wait until firmware upgrade successfully verified appears
- After upgrade connect again to 172.16.42.107:1471 and get into Device Configuration
- Set root password for ssh and web interface access
- pwd: <ask for>
- Management AP Setup
- Management SSID:
- WPA2 pwd: <ask for>
- check Hide Management AP
- Open AP Setup
is used for the target to connect to: f.e. **netlab**
- Run with wp6.sh script
gwget wifipineapple.com/wp6.sh chmod +x wp6.sh ./wp6.sh
Used Hardware
Courses
- Campus Cyber Security Team WiFi Hacking 21.06.2019