Bluetooth LE hacking

Summary

This page describes the basics steps of a BLE device attack.

Requirements

• Operating system: Ubuntu 21.10

In order to complete these steps, you must have followed before.

Description

First install ubertooth one and all libraries. A full documentation is available on: https://ubertooth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_guide.html

Check if ubertooth one is recognized:

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1d50:6002 OpenMoko, Inc. Ubertooth One

sudo apt-get install -y ubertooth cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev make gcc g++ libbluetooth-dev pkg-config python3-numpy python3-qtpy

Install libbtbb

wget https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/libbtbb/archive/2020-12-R1.tar.gz -O libbtbb-2020-12-R1.tar.gz
tar -xf libbtbb-2020-12-R1.tar.gz
cd libbtbb-2020-12-R1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Install Ubertooth Tools

wget https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/releases/download/2020-12-R1/ubertooth-2020-12-R1.tar.xz
tar -xf ubertooth-2020-12-R1.tar.xz
cd ubertooth-2020-12-R1/host
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Ubertooth One Firmware update

cd firmware
sudo apt-get install -y gcc-arm-none-eabi
make clean all
make
cd bluetooth_rxtx
ubertooth-dfu -d bluetooth_rxtx.dfu -r

To show the Firmware use the command

ubertooth-util -v

Firmware version: git-7b656c1 (API:1.07)

Used Hardware

• Ubertooth One

Device to be used with this documentation Maybe another device to be used with this documentation

Courses

• A course where this documentation was used (2017, 2018)
• Another one (2018)

References

• https://wikipedia.org
• https://google.com