Getting started with Pyrit
Its developer describes Pyrit as follows: “Pyrit allows you to create huge databases of precomputed WPA/WPA2-PSK authentication phase in space-time exchange. Using the computing power of Multi-Core CPUs and other platforms via ATI-Stream, Nvidia CUDA and OpenCL, this is by far the strongest attack against one of the world's most used security protocols”
Pyrit uses a combination of CPU+GPU to enable faster fragmentation of raw data. For example, you can use this combined processing power to find the Wifi password, crack the WPA/WPA2 capture file.
Pyrit consists of basically two parts:
- The main module features the scheduling- and database-code and a basic extension-module that uses the CPU for computation. This main module is required for every system.
- Optionally, Nvidia-CUDA or OpenCL modules can be installed. Of course the hardware must support it. (You can find this option in the installation steps)
If you have multiple GPUs, you can use Pyrit to crack the password. Pyrit allows attackers to create massive amount of pre-computed WPA/WPA-PSK. Pyrit can be downloaded from https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit. This tool uses other platforms, such as ATI-Stream, Nvidia CUDA, and OpenCL, with the computational power of multiple CPUs. An attacker can use John the Ripper and cowpatty along with Pyrit to crack the password from the captured wireless traffic
Pre-requisites
You must have an up and running Kali Linux installed.
Step-1: Update System and Install Dependencies
For packages that need to be installed on your system, execute the following commands in terminal.
Update the system:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ sudo apt update -y
Install the dependencies:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ sudo apt install git python2-dev libssl-dev libpcap-dev -y
Step-2: Compile Pyrit
Let's pull the application from the Github page:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ git clone https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit.git --depth=1
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ sed -i "s/COMPILE_AESNI/COMPILE_AESNIX/" Pyrit/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.c
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit] └─$ pyrit -h Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/pyrit", line 4, in <module> import pyrit_cli File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/util.py", line 54, in <module> import _cpyrit_cpu ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.so: undefined symbol: aesni_key
Run the following steps in order:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ cd Pyrit ┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit] └─$ python2 setup.py clean ┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit] └─$ python2 setup.py build running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7 copying pyrit_cli.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7 creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cpyrit . . . running build_scripts creating build/scripts-2.7 copying and adjusting pyrit -> build/scripts-2.7 changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/pyrit from 644 to 755
Step-3: Install Pyrit
It may give some warnings after compilation. Then run the install
command:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit] └─$ sudo python2 setup.py install running install running build running build_py running build_ext running build_scripts running install_lib creating /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.so -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cpyrit/cpyrit.py -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cpyrit/pckttools.py -> . . . byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py to pyrit_cli.pyc writing byte-compilation script '/tmp/tmpEBSxgv.py' /usr/bin/python2 -O /tmp/tmpEBSxgv.py removing /tmp/tmpEBSxgv.py running install_scripts copying build/scripts-2.7/pyrit -> /usr/local/bin changing mode of /usr/local/bin/pyrit to 755 running install_egg_info Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit-0.5.1.egg-info
After this step, go up one directory to avoid messing with module searches:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit] └─$ cd ..
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ pyrit -h Pyrit 0.5.1 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg - 2015 John Mora https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+ Usage: pyrit [options] command Recognized options: -b : Filters AccessPoint by BSSID -e : Filters AccessPoint by ESSID -h : Print help for a certain command -i : Filename for input ('-' is stdin) -o : Filename for output ('-' is stdout) -r : Packet capture source in pcap-format -u : URL of the storage-system to use --all-handshakes : Use all handshakes instead of the best one --aes : Use AES Recognized commands: analyze : Analyze a packet-capture file attack_batch : Attack a handshake with PMKs/passwords from the db attack_cowpatty : Attack a handshake with PMKs from a cowpatty-file attack_db : Attack a handshake with PMKs from the db attack_passthrough : Attack a handshake with passwords from a file batch : Batchprocess the database benchmark : Determine performance of available cores benchmark_long : Longer and more accurate version of benchmark (5 minutes) check_db : Check the database for errors . . . passthrough : Compute PMKs and write results to a file relay : Relay a storage-url via RPC selftest : Test hardware to ensure it computes correct results serve : Serve local hardware to other Pyrit clients strip : Strip packet-capture files to the relevant packets stripLive : Capture relevant packets from a live capture-source verify : Verify 10% of the results by recomputation
Step-5: Using Pyrit
Run the following command to list the available cores:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ pyrit list_cores Pyrit 0.5.1 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg - 2015 John Mora https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+ The following cores seem available... #1: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)' Benchmark Pyrit
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ pyrit benchmark Pyrit 0.5.1 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg - 2015 John Mora https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+ Running benchmark (1130.3 PMKs/s)... - Computed 1126.53 PMKs/s total. #1: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)': 1194.5 PMKs/s (RTT 2.9) OpenCL:
Nvidia-CUDA and OpenCL Steps
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general purpose processing. It is a software layer that provides direct access to the GPU's virtual instruction set and parallel computing elements for the execution of the compute cores.
Two methods to find out your GPU's CUDA Support.
Method-1: Wikipedia
Find out your GPU's CUDA Support
Method-2: With Web Browser
First of all, Open Chrome based browser in your system. After that go to the url chrome://gpu
.
You can see the supported version on the screen below. (In my case not enabled)
For Nvidia
Install the following dependency:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit -y
Go to the [cpyrit_cuda] directory in the directory where you downloaded the pyrit, For example:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ cd Pyrit/modules/cpyrit_cuda/ ┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit/modules/cpyrit_cuda] └─$ python2 setup.py build
For Pyrit-OpenCL
Install the following dependency:
──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit/modules/cpyrit_opencl] └─$ sudo python2 setup.py build The headers required to build the OpenCL-kernel were not found. Trying to continue anyway... running build running build_ext Building modules... building 'cpyrit._cpyrit_opencl' extension ┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~/Pyrit/modules/cpyrit_opencl] └─$ sudo python2 setup.py install The headers required to build the OpenCL-kernel were not found. Trying to continue anyway... running install running build running build_ext Building modules... running install_lib copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cpyrit/_cpyrit_opencl.so -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit running install_egg_info Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit_opencl-0.5.0.egg-info
After deciding on OpenCL and Nvidia CUDA, change the configuration with the following steps:
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ nano ~/.pyrit/config
Change use_OpenCL = true or false and use_CUDA = true or false.
Summary
What is described in this article has been tested on the latest Kali Linux version.
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ uname -a Linux foc 5.16.0-kali7-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.16.18-1kali1 (2022-04-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux
┌──(foc㉿foc)-[~] └─$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" ID=kali VERSION="2022.2" VERSION_ID="2022.2" VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling" ID_LIKE=debian ANSI_COLOR="1;31" HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
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References
Install Pyrit - Pyrit Wiki Page
Further Reading
https://code.google.com/archive/p/pyrit/
greetings from UK .. Love Pyrit, its such an amazing tool and was gutted when it was officially removed from the Kali release.
I read on Github you working on an updated version. ? this would be very appreciated and looking forward to it.
Regards Cyberjack-cj
Omg Guys.
THANKS A LOT!
Really incredibole work, detailed, with comands and screanshoot. Wow, who did this job thank you very much!!!!
i search pyrit around install it and + here find how install cd Nvidia cuda-
THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the best!
it work tnx
Greetings from Argentina, many thanks to the author of this tutorial, it really helps me!
sudo python2 setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building ‘cpyrit._cpyrit_cpu’ extension
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -ffile-prefix-map=/build/python2.7-W40Ff2/python2.7-2.7.18=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.o -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -DVERSION=”0.5.1″ -maes -mpclmul
unable to execute ‘x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc’: No such file or directory
Failed to build; Compiling without AES-NI
building ‘cpyrit._cpyrit_cpu’ extension
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -ffile-prefix-map=/build/python2.7-W40Ff2/python2.7-2.7.18=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.o -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -DVERSION=”0.5.1″
unable to execute ‘x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc’: No such file or directory
error: command ‘x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc’ failed with exit status 1
how fix it????
unsupported clang version! clang version must be less than 14 and greater than 3.2 . The nvcc flag ‘-allow-unsupported-compiler’ can be used to override this version check; however, using an unsupported host compiler may cause compilation failure or incorrect run time execution. Use at your own risk.
???
Hi, have you installed the following packages?
sudo apt python-dev install gcc
Actually i am using zorin os and after the setup.py clean the build and install code shows some error unable to execute ‘x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc’: No such file or directory. please help me