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The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
pywifi provides a cross-platform Python module for manipulating wireless interfaces.
On Linux, you will need to run wpa_supplicant to manipulate the wifi devices, and then pywifi can communicate with wpa_supplicant through socket.
On Windows, the Native Wifi component comes with Windows versions greater than Windows XP SP2.
After installing the prerequisites listed above for your platform, you can use pip to install from source:
cd pywifi/
pip install .
For the details of pywifi, please refer to Documentation.
import pywifi
wifi = pywifi.PyWiFi()
iface = wifi.interfaces()[0]
iface.disconnect()
time.sleep(1)
assert iface.status() in\
[const.IFACE_DISCONNECTED, const.IFACE_INACTIVE]
profile = pywifi.Profile()
profile.ssid = 'testap'
profile.auth = const.AUTH_ALG_OPEN
profile.akm.append(const.AKM_TYPE_WPA2PSK)
profile.cipher = const.CIPHER_TYPE_CCMP
profile.key = '12345678'
iface.remove_all_network_profiles()
tmp_profile = iface.add_network_profile(profile)
iface.connect(tmp_profile)
time.sleep(30)
assert iface.status() == const.IFACE_CONNECTED
iface.disconnect()
time.sleep(1)
assert iface.status() in\
[const.IFACE_DISCONNECTED, const.IFACE_INACTIVE]
(C) Jiang Sheng-Jhih 2019, MIT License.
FAQs
A cross-platform module for manipulating WiFi devices.
We found that pywifi demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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