SSID Flooding with MDK3 One neat tr

SSID Flooding with MDK3 One neat trick that MDK3 can do is SSID flooding,
or beacon flooding. What this means is that MDK3
can broadcast hundreds or even thousands of fake
access points. Others that are in the area will see
all of these fake access points when they go to
search for WiFi access points to connect to. As you can probably see, SSID flooding is not denial of
service. However, this is still a pretty cool trick.
Potentially, you could set up a dedicated computer
with a wireless access point and have MDK3
running in SSID flooding mode at all times. You
could, in effect, hide your legitimate wireless access point in a sea of fake access points. A sort of
security through obscurity to prevent WiFi hacking
attacks. Here is the syntax to enable simple SSID flooding
(MDK3 will generate random fake access point
names: mdk3 b -c 1 Just replace with the name of your
wireless interface. Remember, usually it’s monO. The b option tells MDK3 to use beacon/SSID flooding mode. -c1 tells MDK3 to broadcast all the fake access points on channel 1. (To better hide the fact these
are all fake access points, you can try running
multiple instances of MDK3 and specify a different
channel each time. You can also specify a list of specific SSID names
from a file by appending the command above with: -f Let’s say your business’s wireless AP broadcasts
as “ACME Business”. You want to use MDK3’s
SSID flooding mode to hide your access point
amongst a bunch of similarly named but decoy
access points. You could create a text file named
“SSIDs” and fill with fake access point names, perhaps names like “ACME WiFi” “ACME Network”
“WiFi ACME”. Then, to bring this all together, you
can simply run: mdk3 b -c 1 -f SSIDs There are tons of possible options for the SSID
flooding mode: