Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager

3 Jan 2026 · WiFi, Pineapple Pager, Hak5, Testing

It's here, at last!

Hak5 make some of the swishest test gear available. I've got a homemade WiFi Pineapple that I use for testing. When the portable version the "Pineapple Pager" was touted I was all over it, it took a while, but it landed the other day.

There was a faff (as usual) with Royal Mail delivering it. Shortly after they got it they sent me an email saying you'll likely have to pay a customs charge for it. I knew there would be and was expecting it, fine. They then wait until the day of delivery and send you another email saying there's a charge to pay, again, this is fine I was expecting the charge, the £8 handling fee is a con, but that's another tale! This email contains a payment link. By this point the thing has been with RM for a period of time, the item landed in the UK and then made it's way to my local depot. But they only send a link to pay the charge on the day they're supposed to deliver it. So even if you pay it within 10 minutes of recieving the note to pay the charge you still have to wait days to get it delivered. Anyway, it's here now, so i'll stop moaning.

The device is a bit bigger than a traditional pager, it's 87x25x72 and weighs 140gr. It's made of plastic and is well finished. It feels solid. There's a set of direction buttons and a red back & green OK button to control it.

Initializing Screen (it's an American devcice).

First job when it comes it to charge it up, there's lots of chat about not using a PC to charge it, I'm a good un so I followed the instructions and hooked it up to a USB charger, it started slowly at 0.3A and slowly rose to 1.6A, took about 40 minutes to charge, when full the little LED on the side goes green. Bingo, get it into the PC and flashy flashy time.

It shipped with an early firmware, the latest version is 1.0.4 so that's what I flashed it with. I stuck on some communuty payloads while I was in there. You update it via an on device portal, once you've set up the device and connected it to the t'internet you can update directly on the device. The portal has a virtual pager and a terminal interface, the virtual pager is yellow, mine is black, so that bugs me a bit.

The on pager interface is a doddle to play with, the buttons are laid out logically and fit my hands perfectly. The LEDs on the buttons are customisable so if you don't like the colours you can change em. The screen is 60mm corner to corner, full colour, 480x222 resolution, text and images are crisp and clear. Round the side there's a USB C with Ethernet and a USB A port for expansion modules. On board there's 2.4 5 & 6 GHz WiFi, it does Bluetooth 5.2 and 4.2 low energy. The CPU whizzes along at 580MHz, theres a 4GB eMMC for storage, 128MB SPI Flash for firmware & 256MB of DDR2 RAM.

I've seen a modified one with an external antenna port, it's on the list of things to do, along with a USB GPS module for wardriving.

The big selling point for me (in addition to the portability and size) is that the pager runs on Linux. The device also runs payloads, payloads are ducky scripts or bash scripts that you can use to do interesting test things. With a bunch of payloads and this device the world is your oyster. Happy Days.

I'll be using the device to test in my environment. I don't use it in any sort of professional capacity, it's all for my own testing and education. I've set the device up and done some basic stuff with it, I've got a few things I want to test next week, I'll update this with progress.

First impressions are good, it makes my other tools feel poorly thought out. I never really enjoy using the interface on my flipper, the screen is an LCD and the button layout is a faff. Its functionally great, but the interface is a mess. The BLE Shark Nano is a basic tool, not in the same league as this, so it's not fair to compare the two. My HackRF One is another belter, but more of an amateur radio than a security tool.