Sabiá

Free and open Wi-Fi auditing.
Terminal and desktop app · live capture on Linux, offline analysis on Windows, Linux and macOS · authorized use.

Terminal · Interface · Architecture · Roadmap · Changelog

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Sabiá brings together, in a single sweep, what tools like airodump-ng, hcxdumptool, aircrack-ng and wifite do separately — in one Rust binary, with no libpcap dependency:

• Network discovery: hops across the 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz channels and lists access points and associated clients, with SSID, BSSID, channel, signal, security type, WPS details and vendor.
• Monitor mode without scripts: turns the card's monitor mode on and off straight through netlink/iw, recovering automatically if NetworkManager tries to reclaim the interface, and shows which channels the radio supports.
• Handshake capture: recognizes the 4-way handshake (EAPOL) and the PMKID on the air and keeps only what offline cracking needs; decrypts CCMP traffic for a client once its password is known.
• Cracking, three ways: dictionary (9.7M passwords bundled by default, rockyou + Probable-Wordlists), hashcat-style mutation rules, and mask brute force (?d?l?u?s?a) — recomputes the PMK with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 and checks the MIC (4-way) or the PMKID — for WPA/WPA2-PSK. Export to .hc22000 to hand the handshake to hashcat/John instead.
• pcap round-trip: writes captured frames to .pcap and analyzes a .pcap offline (networks, clients and handshakes), interoperable with the other tools.
• Deauthentication and WPS: directional/continuous deauth, PMF probing, clientless PMKID hunting, and a WPS PIN/Pixie Dust attack (bundled reaver, or bully when installed) — all gated behind an explicit authorization confirmation (--yes / checkbox).
• Evil Twin: clones an already-seen AP with a captive portal for WPA/WPA2-PSK — the submitted password is only accepted after it's verified against the real captured handshake, never "accepts anything" — plus an Enterprise (802.1X/EAP) variant that captures credentials automatically, no portal needed.
• Audit report: a paginated, printable report (cover, table of contents, findings, channel scoring, audit trail) generated locally.
• Audit trail: every monitor-mode activation and capture session is recorded in a local hash-chained trail.
• Diagnostics: doctor checks privileges, tools and interfaces before you start.

Authorized use

Sabiá is an auditing tool — for testing the security of networks you own or have explicit authorization to assess.

• Capturing handshakes, sending deauthentication or cracking passwords on third-party networks without permission is illegal in most countries. The responsibility is the operator's.
• Deauthentication (deauth) requires the --yes flag, an assertion that you are authorized to test that network.
• Every monitor-mode activation and capture session is recorded in the local audit trail (sabia audit show), hash-chained to detect tampering.
• Nothing of yours leaves the machine. The only network access by default is the update check on startup (which can be disabled).
• Dictionary passwords and handshakes stay on your machine.

Install

Download the package for your system from Releases:

	CLI	Desktop app
Windows	sabia-*-windows-x86_64.zip	.msi / .exe installer
macOS	sabia-*-macos-{aarch64,x86_64}.tar.gz	.dmg
Linux	sabia-*-linux-{x86_64,aarch64}.tar.gz	.AppImage / .deb

Each file has a .sha256 next to it. Build from source: cargo build --release -p sabia-cli (Rust 1.80+).

Updates: the desktop app checks GitHub on startup; when a new version exists, a button offers Update now: it downloads the right binary for your platform, verifies the SHA-256 and swaps the running executable — no manual download. The check is a single request to the releases API and sends nothing of yours.

The binaries are not signed yet: Windows SmartScreen and macOS Gatekeeper will warn. Check the SHA-256.

Capture and monitor mode require Linux and root (CAP_NET_ADMIN/CAP_NET_RAW): raw capture uses AF_PACKET and interface control uses netlink. Offline .pcap analysis and cracking also run on Windows and macOS. The desktop app elevates to administrator on its own at startup.

Getting started

sabia doctor                              # privileges, tools and interfaces
sabia iface list                          # Wi-Fi interfaces and their modes
sudo sabia iface monitor wlan0 on         # enable monitor mode

sudo sabia scan wlan0 --band all --out air.pcap # hop channels and record the air
sabia analyze air.pcap                      # read a .pcap offline
sabia crack air.pcap --wordlist list.txt    # crack the handshake by dictionary

Authorized deauthentication testing and all other commands (audit, update, ui) are in docs/cli.md.

Desktop app

Desktop app (Tauri) with an interface sidebar, a capture panel with an animated signal line, and a networks table with signal bars and color-coded security badges. The same front-end runs in the browser with sabia ui. More in docs/interface.md.

• Pick the interface, toggle monitor mode and start/stop capture by button.
• Live networks seen table, with signal, channel and security.
• An authorized-use notice always in view and automatic privilege elevation on startup.
• One-click update button, Auto, Light and Dark themes and interface in Portuguese and English.

Known limits

• Capture is Linux-only, with a card that supports monitor mode (and injection, for deauth). On Windows and macOS Sabiá only does .pcap analysis and offline cracking.
• WPA3/SAE does not fall to handshake dictionaries — cracking covers WPA/WPA2-PSK (4-way and PMKID).
• 5 and 6 GHz depend on the card and the regulatory domain; some channels stay passive (no probing).
• Evil Twin's self-signed certificate: the Enterprise variant's TLS certificate isn't trusted by clients that validate the chain (common on updated corporate/MDM devices) — that's the correct defense working, not a bug.
• Windows and macOS: the code compiles and is tested in CI, but live capture does not run on those platforms.

Where it's going

Summary of the ROADMAP:

Done	Monitor mode via netlink (with NetworkManager recovery), 2.4/5/6 GHz scanning, 4-way and PMKID capture, CCMP decryption, dictionary/rules/mask cracking (WPA/WPA2-PSK), .hc22000 export, .pcap read/write, authorized deauth/PMF/PMKID, WPS attack, Evil Twin (PSK + Enterprise), channel scoring and findings, paginated audit report, hash-chained audit trail, doctor, CLI + desktop app, one-click update
Next	GPU acceleration for cracking, capture on Windows (Npcap)
Later	WPA3/SAE downgrade, validation on varied hardware, signed release binaries

Development

crates/sabia-core   core: interfaces, netlink, radiotap, 802.11, EAPOL, handshake, capture, crack, audit, update
crates/sabia-cli    the `sabia` binary (CLI + local UI server)
apps/gui            interface (ui/ = HTML, CSS and JS; src-tauri/ = desktop app)
scripts/            CI helpers (cached dependency install, i18n coverage check)
docs/               terminal, interface and architecture

cargo test --workspace
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets
node scripts/check-ui-i18n.mjs        # UI translation coverage

See CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/architecture.md. Versions follow SemVer; changes in CHANGELOG.md. To release: git tag vX.Y.Z && git push --tags (the release workflow builds and publishes everything). Vulnerabilities: SECURITY.md.

License

MIT or Apache-2.0, your choice.