Wireless Penetration Test

Gain Visibility Over Your Wireless Threats

Cybra offers a full suite of wireless penetration testing services in Australia.

What is a wireless pentest?

An wireless penetration test is the ethical hacking of an organisation’s wireless networks.

The test emulates a local attacker in range of your wireless network signal and utilises current attack techniques and methods.

Wireless pentest pricing

Wireless penetration tests are typically lower cost than other penetration tests due to the limited attack surface and generally small number of wireless networks a typical organisation has configured.

Cybra scopes the engagement based on the number of SSIDs and features (i.e., guest isolation).

Dangers of wireless pentests

All penetration testing has a chance of adversely affecting systems, but this is very rare. All systems and networks should have adequate bandwidth and system resources before commencing.

Benefits of wireless pentests

The assessment identifies security flaws and vulnerabilities in wireless systems so that the customer can fix them before a malicious actor takes advantage of them.

As wireless networks have limited physical protections (signal strength), it is important that they are configured with robust security to prevent attackers from gaining a foothold in your corporate networks.

What systems can be tested?

All wireless networks can be penetration tested, including 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz, WPA1, WPA2, WPA2-Enterprise, and WPA3.

Testing can also be conducted over isolated guest networks where we test the segmentation between secure and unsecure networks.

Out of scope

Denial of Service (DoS) is strictly out of scope for wireless penetration testing unless the customer requires it.

Approach

Wireless penetration testing is conducted by experienced security consultants using specialised software and tools onsite at your office location, simulating a malicious attacker who is in range of your wireless signal.

Most wireless penetration tests are conducted with specialised hardware and antennas so that all of the known attacks can be fully tested.

Types of external attacks

Wireless penetration tests cover a range of cyber attacks such as:

Weak encryption / passphrases
Authentication attacks
Man-in-the-Middle attacks
Evil Twin/KARMA attacks
WEP,WPA,WPS,PKMID attacks
Rogue access points
Weak guest isolation
Weak physical security
Information leaks

Authenticated testing

Most wireless tests are conducted without test credentials (unauthenticated).

If required by the customer, we can do guest isolation testing using provided wireless credentials, emulating a guest who has connected to your network. This ensures they can not pivot into your secure corporate network.

Tools

Various open-source and commercial software and scripts are deployed during a wireless penetration test.

Some examples are Wi-Fi attack tools, Man-in-the-Middle tools, vulnerability scanners, port scanners, brute force tools, exploitation frameworks, and protocol analyzers.

Firewalls/WAFs/IPS

Many modern wireless solutions offer active protection against a variety of wireless attacks, such as Wireless Intrusion Prevention (WIPs) to prevent wireless clients from masquerading as your legitimate SSID.

Cybra’s penetration test will test the effectiveness of these controls and may require you to temporarily disable some controls so we can accurately determine the associated risks.

Detection / Monitoring

While not required, it is recommended to have some level of system and security monitoring in place during a penetration test as this allows the customer to observe how their systems react to a simulated hack, providing valuable insights for the security team.