Welcome to ProbeQuest’s documentation!

ProbeQuest is a toolkit allowing to sniff and display the Wi-Fi probe requests passing nearby your wireless interface.

This project has been inspired by this paper.

Table of Contents

• What are Wi-Fi probe requests?
• Installation
  • From PyPI (recommended)
  • From sources
• Usage
  • Enabling the monitor mode
    • With ip and iw
    • With ifconfig and iwconfig
    • With airmon-ng from aircrack-ng
  • Command line arguments
    • Positional Arguments
    • Named Arguments
    • Example of use
• Use Case
• Mitigation
  • Android
  • iOS
• Modules
  • CLI
    • build_cluster()
    • get_arg_parser()
    • main()
    • set_up_root_logger()
  • ProbeQuest Configuration
    • Config
      • Config.compiled_essid_regex
      • Config.frame_filter
      • Config.interface
  • Exceptions
    • DependencyNotPresentException
    • InterfaceDoesNotExistException
    • ProbeQuestException
  • CSV Exporter
    • ProbeRequestCSVExporter
      • ProbeRequestCSVExporter.push()
  • Probe Request
    • ProbeRequest
      • ProbeRequest.s_mac_oui
  • Probe Request Filter
    • ProbeRequestFilter
      • ProbeRequestFilter.can_pass()
  • Probe Request Parser
    • ProbeRequestParser
      • ProbeRequestParser.parse()
  • Fake Probe Request Sniffer
    • FakeProbeRequest
      • FakeProbeRequest.stop()
    • FakeProbeRequestSniffer
  • Probe Request Sniffer
    • ProbeRequestSniffer
  • Console
    • ProbeRequestConsole
      • ProbeRequestConsole.high_push()
      • ProbeRequestConsole.push()
• Development
  • Running the unit tests
  • Releasing a new version
• Security Policy
  • Reporting a Vulnerability