Chameleon Mini RevE rebooted Usage
Summary
Functionality and usage of Chameleon Mini RevE rebooted
Requirements
- Operating systems are referred as:
- Linux: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic amd64
- Windows: Windows 10 (tested in a VM)
Description
Functionality of Chameleon Mini RevE rebooted
Chameleon Mini RevE rebooted has 8 card slots to simulate cards/UIDs, each slot can be set in an own configuration mode to
- simulate cards/UIDs to readers
- help getting a first auth key from a dialogue with a reader
- only first slot allows up to 4K dumps/uploads because of memory limitations
- the default firmware can only configure MIFARE cards
- RevE does not copy cards
Chameleon Mini RevE rebooted is a stand alone device powered by CR2032 button battery
Card configurations supported by default firmware
- NONE: No functionality, ChameleonMini does nothing, the current setting is skipped when cycling through the settings
- MF_ULTRALIGHT: Emulates a MiFare Ultralight card
- MF_ULTRALIGHT_EV1_80B: Emulates a MiFare Ultralight EV1 80B card
- MF_ULTRALIGHT_EV1_164B: Emulates a MiFare Ultralight EV1 164B card
- MF_CLASSIC_1K: Emulates a MiFare Classic 1k card
- MF_CLASSIC_4K: Emulates a MiFare Classic 4k card
- MF_CLASSIC_1K_7B: Emulates a MiFare Classic 1k card with 7b UID
- MF_CLASSIC_4K_7B: Emulates a MiFare Classic 4k card with 7b UID
- MF_DETECTION: Emulates a MiFare Classic 1k card and saves nonces which can be used for mfkey32 attack in GUI
(Source: https://github.com/iceman1001/ChameleonMini-rebooted/wiki/Configurations, Feb 2,2020)
Hardware Description
- Red Leds on left side:
- 8 red LEDs which indicate the active slot
- Black Button - "KEY":
- “short press” referred as BUTTON in commands and GUI and let you switch the active slot
- “long press” - BUTTON_LONG
- “long press while plugging USB cable” - BOOTLOADER Mode
- Red Buttern - "POWER":
- used to power on the device when used stand-alone on battery
Device Recognition
Linux
The linux kernel is device driver
dmesg | grep usb
[ 167.571731] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 3 [ 180.768751] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [ 180.917821] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=03eb, idProduct=2fe4, bcdDevice= 0.04 [ 180.917829] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
RevE is seen as a USB modem
lsusb Bus 001 Device 011: ID 03eb:2fe4 Atmel Corp. ATxmega32A4U DFU bootloader
Windows 10
- in the device manager should appear an Atmel USB Device: ATxmega32A4U
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- On starting the Windows GUI (https://github.com/iceman1001/ChameleonMini-rebootedGUI)
Used Hardware