DSTIKE Deauther Watch Tutorial and Review

Have you wanted to play around with the limitless wifi around you but didn’t bring your laptop. Well luckily this sweet little watch is the perfect answer to just that problem. I’m going to be going over the controls in more depth below I figure I should give you a link to see what I’m talking about if this is your first time hearing about this watch. (DSTIKE Watch)

After I got mine its been a blast to play around with as well as give live impromptu demonstrations about the dangers and limitations of wifi that everyone takes for granted. Their was even one time I needed to free up some bandwidth on a public wifi for a download so I kind of booted everyone but me off the network for a bit. Sorry script writers at Starbucks but my VM download trumps your “Next Big Story”. If you’re just getting into playing with wifi networks from a pentesting standpoint or want to get a more hands on feel for what deauthing is like in the wild I can’t recommend this device more. Its the next best thing to a pineapple but that is for another post.

Controls Explained

From first powering on the watch you will be given a boot message telling you information about the board used, who developed it @Spacehuhn, and what version the deauther watch is running. After that message dissapears you will be given the ability to choose from six different menu options.

• SCAN
• SELECT
• ATTACK
• PACKET MONITOR
• CLOCK
• LED

SCAN

Scan is used to discover access points as well as wifi stations within rang of the watch. Unfortunately due to the limitation of the hardware’s chipset it won’t be able to discover or interact with 5g signals. But don’t worry cell phones are still susceptible to this watch thanks to the dual band setup they use. While it can scan for APs and STs at the same time, which honestly is what I use 90% of the time when I scan, you can go a more stealthy route and only scan one or the other. This will just depend on objective and personal preference.

SELECT

Select is going to be the next option on the list from the home menu as well as your next step after a scan has been completed. Any access points and stations picked up by DSTIKE will be stored here. Simply select either the APs or Stations options to start selecting them. The APs will show the names of the as you would see them if you were to connect from your cell phone. For example NETGEAR65-2G, GirlsGoneWireless, Xfinitynew etc. You can either click each one on the list that you would like to use or at the bottom of the list you get the option to SELECT ALL the same goes with DESELECT ALL and REMOVE ALL. Remove all will remove them from the select list and would require a new scan to populate the select list again.

ATTACK

Attacking is probably the most enjoyable part to this whole watch. After all its called DSTIKE Deauther not DSTIKE Conversation Piece. After you’ve selected the targets you would like to deauthenticate in the select option described above simply select DEAUTH and hit start. This will start sending deauth packets to the selected targets for as long as you are running the attack. Under the attack option you also have the option to send out a Beacon attack this will tell the surrounding area that APs in the area for connection. By default these APs are the lyrics to the Rick Roll. You can change the names that the beaconing attack will spawn inside the watches settings. The watch will allow you to deploy both deauth and beacon attacks at the same time. Once the attack is started the green indicator light will turn red alerting you that an attack is underway. Just make sure to turn the attack off when your done as to not drain the battery unnecessarily.

PACKET MONITOR

Packet monitor is really one of the coolest setting to use for me. By selecting this option you get to see in real time the about of packets being sent around on the different channels. It can listen on channels 1 to 14 and is super useful if your interested in what the wifi area looks like. When using the watch in a new area I like flipping around the channels to see which one has the most traffic. The real fun starts though when you find a channel that has low traffic on it compared to the others in the area. Is someone trying to play around with their own wifi hacking tools? Is it the channel a business is using to separate the staff from the public? No matter the answer unique is always worth the look.

CLOCK

The clock is a nice little feature that simply displays the time in minutes since it was last turned on. I particularly like this for the fact that its less suspicious to have a watch displaying a time rather then showing bar graphs of the current amount of packets flying by on some wireless channel. Trust me you go threw a metal detector at your favorite amusement park or airport you have a lot less explaining to do if you use this display.

LED

This option is really the most self explanatory. You select this option an LED turns on at the base of the watch. A little too spy kids of a feature to me but it does stop me from needing get my phone when I need to read in a dark room I shouldn’t be in.

If you’ve made it to the end congrats! This really is a fun tool to use. Of course if you’ve hit this page because you got yours already and wanted some answers on what it does you already know how cool it is. If you’ve reached the bottom and would now like to get your hands on one feel free to use This Link and get started right away.