Esp8266 Wifi Probe Request Sniffer

When a Wi-Fi device is switched on, it starts spewing out probe requests to try and find a familiar access point. These probe requests contain the device’s MAC address and the SSID of the hotspot it’s looking for, which can potentially be used to identify a specific device and where it’s been.

The device consists of an ESP8266 based boad. An external antenna if required, which can be selected based on the size or range requirements for a specific deployment.

Programming part

For programing You have two option

1. Use ESP8266 WIFI PROBE SNIFFER Web tool It is automatic flasher tool and it also has Serial monitor that is important in this project because prob requests are displayed through Serial output.

How to Flash using ESP8266 WIFI PROBE SNIFFER Web tool

• Select your esp8266 boad

• Connect your ESP8266 board via USB

• Click Connect and Select the serial port of your ESP

• on Device Dashboard Click on install

• after restart the ESP boad and on Device Dashboard Click on "log"

• after few seconds you will see output

1. Use Arduino IDE

   This is an open source project, visit https://github.com/BlackTechX011/ESP8266_PROBE_REQUEST_SNIFFER

   1. download files from GitHub and open

   2. open Arduino skitch

   3. select your esp8266 based board now click on "upload" button

   4. after upload restart the ESP boad and open Serial monitor

   5. now after few seconds you will see output like this-