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Thread: [Reaver][Kali 2016] Reaver Association Issues (Code 18)

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    Question [Reaver][Kali 2016] Reaver Association Issues (Code 18)

    So every once and awhile my room-mate and I like to have little contests. One of our favorites is a penetration contest on our home AP after the other makes some administration changes to the AP.

    The only rule we have is:
    It has to be breakable. IE: no turning off WPS etc.

    Either way, this time I'm up. I've been beating my head against it for a few days now and can't seem to break-into whatever he changed.

    Reaver will fail to associate with the AP 100% of the time. Good power rating, poor power rating, does not matter.

    So the next thing I tried was to associate using aireplay-ng. However aireplay will just spam the following:
    "Association Denied (Code 18)"

    There is not a whole lot of info on the above code (Code 18) that google turned up, however after some more digging it seems to occur when the AP is broadcasting in a mode that the requesting station can't understand.

    If I'm right about this, I would guess that he switched the wireless-mode to 802.11ac only. I might be way off with that hypothesis, so anyone can feel free to correct me, but from what I understand of the above error that seems to be a reasonable suspicion. Unfortunately, my wireless card is 802.11n (Qualcomm atheros AR9285 - ath9k driver) and therefore can't associate with a network that is sending only ac signal.

    The only card I have that is 802.11ac compatible is the card in my other laptop, a 2015 Macbook Pro. A Broadcom BCM43xx card that as far as I am aware can't be configured for monitor mode/injection anyway. (?)

    Desperately looking for some wisdom and advice here! Am I on the completely wrong track? Are there any (preferably inexpensive) 802.11ac cards that are compatible with aircrack/reaver? Is it possible to use my internal Broadcom card in my Macbook?

    Cheers!

    EDIT:

    Doh - 802.11ac can only exist on the 5gz band. Which means no matter what is being broadcast on the 2,4ghz band I should be able to connect! Completely at a loss here. Is Mac Filtering a possible cause of this? I have been using airodump-ng to scan the target bssid for any stations but haven't had any turn up for me to spoof the MAC of.

    EDIT 2:

    Perhaps (?) the AP is broadcasting only 802.11n and is doing so over the 5gz band? But if that was the case, I don't think I'd see the router in airodump-ng (which I do).
    Last edited by h4ck0ry; 2016-02-26 at 21:05.

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    He set it to 802.11n only, didn't he?

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    Speculations aside, I ran into very similar behavior (in wifite) on a kali box; while wifite associated correctly on nexus7 with the same alfa, running Nethunter; to the same AP. I downgraded libpcap to an earlier version and it worked. I know this isn't a proper fix but a simple band-aid, but something else you could take a look into.
    Last edited by clone; 2016-07-06 at 04:37. Reason: Failure to associate

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    Thanks for the tip. I'm assuming you are referring to Kali 16.1?
    What version of libpcap did you downgrade to?

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