Setting up an Evil Access Point with Kali Linux

A few days ago, we had the opportunity to deploy a rogue access point that would steal user credentials using a fake, captive web portal, and provide MITM’d Internet services via 3G. We needed reliability and scalability in our environment as there would potentially be a large amount of, erm….”participants” in this wireless network. We were pretty happy with the result and quickly realized that we had created a new “Kali Linux recipe”. Or in other words, we could create a custom, bootable wireless evil access point image, which could do all sorts of wondrous things.
Required Hardware

    We used a battery-powered Raspberry Pi for this project, however the instructions below will work on pretty much anything that can run Kali Linux and has 2 free USB ports – ARM and virtual environments included.

    A supported USB wireless adapter; we used an old Netgear WNA1000 we had lying around.

    A supported 3G modem; we found a TP-Link MA180 3.75G HSUPA USB Adapter in a local shop.