pineapple wifi - anyone used one of these?

[world of shit]

Just bought one of these to play around with. Anyone have any experience? I'm curious how much can be exposed when used. Will be setting it up in the next few weeks and configuring and i'll update more.

https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple

 

[lemmiwinks]

Just bought one of these to play around with. Anyone have any experience? I'm curious how much can be exposed when used. Will be setting it up in the next few weeks and configuring and i'll update more.

https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple

I've used FruityWifi an open-source alternative a few times. I'm not an expert or anything, those WiFi Pineapples are (were?) Just off the shelf hardware with a custom firmware.

What are you wondering is exposed? Like hardware interface (JTAG or something)? Depending what model Wifi Pineapple you have the hardware will be more or less documented on OpenWRT.

 

[Tookie]

I used one of the first generation models. It was most useful for jamming my neighbor's wifi when they were blasting Spotify too loud.

 

[Rozzy]

I used one of the first generation models. It was most useful for jamming my neighbor's wifi when they were blasting Spotify too loud.

You can use this WiFi Jammer with no additional hardware, but I think it only works on the 2.4GHZ band.

https://github.com/DanMcInerney/wifijammer

 

[Had]

I always wanted to buy one of their "field kits" but I always failed to see the real world use, other than using it as a dummy wifi or to jam other peoples. Are the books any good?

 

[Tookie]

You can use this WiFi Jammer with no additional hardware, but I think it only works on the 2.4GHZ band.

https://github.com/DanMcInerney/wifijammer

I can use Aircrack-ng in Kali Linux if I want to do it without the Pineapple. I have a USB wifi stick capable of any kind of packet fun and the Pineapple was running some version of Aircrack/Airmon. The Pineapple was nice because it had a browser GUI that streamlined doing things like deauthing a specific base station or scanning the entire area without having to mess around in the command line manually switching channels and things like that.

The earlier models became susceptible to OTA firmware bricking so don't ever turn one on around any kind of hacking conference.

I always wanted to buy one of their "field kits" but I always failed to see the real world use, other than using it as a dummy wifi or to jam other peoples. Are the books any good?

Dummy wifi endpoints were the real primary use of them. They have a ton of customization options so you can perform MITM attacks to try and grab credentials. iIRC, you could also passively listen to packets and write the info to a SD card and later retrieve it to try decrypting the wifi credentials on your computer.

 

[VIPPER?]

What does it do that a chinkpad and a copy of wireshark/aircrack don't? I guess being only 99$ makes it cheap in comparison to using a full laptop but who is into this kind of thing that doesn't have some ancient netbook lying around (or is able to find one for like 50$) and it seems like you need a computer to control it meaningfully anyway.

I always wanted to buy one of their "field kits" but I always failed to see the real world use, other than using it as a dummy wifi or to jam other peoples. Are the books any good?

Even basic IT "field kits" are basically for unemployed LARPers and anything infosec related is guaranteed to be even worse. I'm distrustful of that kit just for the knockoff "Remove Before Flight" tag.