Change MAC address by Kali

Kali has already installed program called “macchanger” which lets us to changeloaded MAC address in RAM. Open VirtualBox, start kali virtual machine and open terminal. We need to stop our wireless card to change the MAC address. 

Type in “ifconfig wlan0 down”. 

The ifconfig is a program, wlan0 is our wireless card and the down is action what we want to do. So, this command will stop every wireless service and it is nessesary to stop network card before changing the MAC address. 

Then type in the following command “macchanger --help”.This command tells Kali to call macchanger and show help. There is program usage instructions. 

In my case, I will use random MAC address by entering “macchanger –random wlan0”.macchanger is program name –random is an option and wlan0 is wireless card. If everything is correct the screen should look like this: 

It shows you what was the permanent (built-in in network card) MAC address and its corporation in brackets, and down it shows that there is a new MAC address which does not have corporation. So, now we already changed the mac address and we need to hack into anyones network. But you are not ready for that now, because you do not know what is monitor mode and how to use it. In the next you will learn what monitor mode is and how to use it with Kali.