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eaphammer

v1.14.1 open-source

EAPHammer is a toolkit for performing targeted evil twin attacks against WPA2-Enterprise networks for use in wireless assessments and red team engagements.

Summary

eaphammer is an open-source command-line toolkit for running evil twin attacks against WPA2-Enterprise wireless networks, and it is free to use. It runs as a set of scripts on Kali or Parrot, generating certificates and standing up a rogue access point to harvest RADIUSRADIUSA networking protocol for centralised authentication, authorisation, and accounting of users connecting to a network, maintained under IETF standards. Cyber tools use it to integrate with existing enterprise identity infrastructure./AD credentials or pivot into a wireless network, with commands to strip ESSIDs, clone captive portals, and configure HTTPSHTTPSHTTP carried over an encrypted TLS connection. It protects traffic in transit and lets a browser verify the server's certificate. on the fly. It is built for red teamers and penetration testers doing full-scope wireless engagements rather than for defenders monitoring networks. First committed in 2017 and demonstrated at Black Hat Arsenal, it has drawn 36 contributors over time, but there have been no commits in the past year and only one release in the tracked window, nearly two years ago, so treat it as dormant rather than actively maintained.

EAPHammer is a toolkit for performing targeted evil twin attacks against WPA2-Enterprise networks for use in wireless assessments and red team engagements.

How eaphammer helps

Will a target's device connect to a cloned network automatically instead of the one it's supposed to use?

strips the ESSID so probing clients associate with the rogue AP transparently, without a user having to pick it from a list

Can a captive portal be reproduced convincingly enough to collect logins from users who connect?

clones an existing portal from a given site into a working template served over HTTPS, so victims see a familiar login page

Is a wireless engagement's rogue infrastructure going to look legitimate enough to pass casual inspection?

generates its own signed certificates and can serve the portal over HTTPS, matching what a client would expect from the real network

Which weaknesses in an organization's enterprise wireless authentication would show up under a live red-team test rather than a paper review?

runs the whole attack chain — certificate generation, rogue AP, portal cloning — as one toolkit, producing captured credentials as the practical evidence of exposure

all 3 features, with the evidence for each →

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Features

3 capabilities · 3 backed by code, an API document or a real run

Built from eaphammer's releases, docs, README and our own runs. “Seen” marks the month we first spotted a release the vendor didn't date. Group names and tags are our labels.

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What eaphammer offers you

  • Command-line interface1
All capabilities 3 capabilities
Captive portal hosting verified Hosts a captive portal, with options to clone a portal from a URL, specify a template directory, configure HTTPS, and set a private key. 1 release · 7 other sources · first seen Dec 2019

release

  • The hostapd control interface name (hostapd_ctrl_ifname) is now randomly generated on startup, enabling multiple concurrent eaphammer instances to run simultaneously v1.12.1 · Dec 2019 · source · release history

docs

  • Toolkit for performing targeted evil twin attacks against WPA2-Enterprise networks to steal RADIUS credentials and perform hostile portal attacks.

command line

example

  • Launch credential-stealing evil twin attack ./eaphammer -i wlan0 --channel 4 --auth wpa-eap --essid CorpWifi --creds
  • Generate certificates for EAP attacks ./eaphammer --cert-wizard
Version reporting verified Prints version information about the tool. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Oct 2023

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release

  • Supports Python 3.12, enabling use on modern systems and distros shipping with Python 3.12 by default. v1.14.1 · Sep 2024 · source · release history

command line

ESSID stripping verified Modifies ESSIDs by appending a carriage return character to manipulate how network names are displayed. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Oct 2023

release

  • Adds ESSID stripping capabilities to hostapd and the eaphammer CLI via a merged feature from @r4ulcl v1.14.0 · Oct 2023 · source · release history

command line

  • --essid-stripping — Enable ESSID Stripping adding \r. v1.14.0 · Oct 2023 · command-line history

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Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
  6. Community health
  7. Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
  8. Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
  9. Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
  10. Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply

Nine scores for eaphammer, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
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  • Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
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Release-note detail over time

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Releases

4 entries

  1. September 20241
  2. October 20231
  3. December 20191
  4. September 20191

    4 entries

    Project health

    Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in s0lst1c3/eaphammer, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.

    1. Contributors 0 ±0 vs prior 12 months
    2. Maintainers 0 +0 joined · −0 left, last 12 months
    3. Bus factor 0 committers behind half the commits
    4. Community-filed 100% of issues opened, last 12 months
    5. Median time to close not measured issues closed, last 12 months
    6. Open backlog 40 of 145 issues ever filed
    1. Issues opened / month 0 · 0 communitymaintainers
    2. Open backlog 40
    3. Contributors / month 0
    4. Commits / month 0
    5. Stars 2,566
    Issue themes, last 12 months
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