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WOL-E – Wake On LAN Security Testing Suite

July 26, 2016

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WOL-E is a suite of tools for Wake on LAN security testing related to the WOL features of network attached computers, this is now enabled by default on many Apple computers.

WOL-E - Wake On LAN Security Testing Suite

This allows you to easily scan for Apple devices on a network (based on their MAC addresses).

Features

These tools include:

  • Bruteforcing the MAC address to wake up clients
  • Sniffing WOL attempts on the network and saving them to disk
  • Sniffing WOL passwords on the network and saving them to disk
  • Waking up single clients (post sniffing attack)
  • Scanning for Apple devices on the network for WOL enabling
  • Sending bulk WOL requests to all detected Apple clients

Usage

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root@kali:~# wol-e -h
 
[*] WOL-E 1.0
[*] Wake on LAN Explorer - A collection a WOL tools.
[*] by Nathaniel Carew
 
    -m
        Waking up single computers.
        If a password is required use the -k 00:12:34:56:78:90 at the end of the above command.
        wol-e -m 00:12:34:56:78:90 -b 192.168.1.255 -p <port> -k <pass>
        Defaults:
        Port: 9
        Broadcast: 255.255.255.255
        Pass: empty
 
    -s
        Sniffing the network for WOL requests and passwords.
        All captured WOL requests will be displayed on screen and written to /usr/share/wol-e/WOLClients.txt.
        wol-e -s -i eth0
 
    -a
        Bruteforce powering on WOL clients.
        wol-e -a -p <port>
        Place the address ranges into the bfmac.lst that you wish to bruteforce.
        They should be in the following format:
        00:12:34:56
        Default port: 9
 
    -f
        Detecting Apple devices on the network for WOL enabling.
        This will output to the screen and write to /usr/share/wol-e/AppleTargets.txt for detected Apple MAC's.
        wol-e -f
 
    -fa
        Attempt to wake all detected Apple targets in /usr/share/wol-e/AppleTargets.txt.
        This will send a single WOL packet to each client in the list and tell you how many clients were attempted.
        wol-e -fa

You can download WOL-E here:

wol-e_2.0.orig.tar.gz

Or read more here.

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