Awesome-Cellular-Hacking

Cellular hacking resources

A curated list of resources and research on cellular security vulnerabilities and exploits for penetration testing and network intrusion detection.

Awesome-Cellular-Hacking

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Awesome-Cellular-Hacking (- In the process of Updating - lots of work to do...) / Rogue BTS & CDMA/GSM Traffic Impersonation and Interception

How To Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS For Fun and Profit "In this blog post I’m going to explain how to create a portable GSM BTS which can be used either to create a private ( and vendor free! ) GSM network or for GSM active tapping/interception/hijacking … yes, with some (relatively) cheap electronic equipment you can basically build something very similar to what the governments are using from years to perform GSM interception."
How to create an Evil LTE Twin/LTE Rogue BTS How to setup a 4G/LTE Evil Twin Base Station using srsLTE and a USRP SDR device
Practical attacks against GSM networks: Impersonation "Impersonating a cellular base station with SDR: With the flexibility, relative low cost of Software Defined Radio (SDR) and abundance of open source projects that emulate a cell tower, successfully impersonating a GSM Base Station (BTS) is not a difficult task these days."
Tutorial-Analyzing GSM with-Airprobe and Wireshark "The RTL-SDR software defined radio can be used to analyze cellular phone GSM signals, using Linux based tools GR-GSM (or Airprobe) and Wireshark. This tutorial shows how to set up these tools for use with the RTL-SDR."
Traffic Interception for Penetration Testing Engagements "Within the penetration testing domain quite often we have to deal with different technologies and devices. It’s important to cover all aspects of connectivity of a device being tested which is why we have built a GSM/GPRS interception capability. There are a number of different devices and systems that make use of GSM/GPRS, non-exhaustively we commonly see:"

Blackhat 2022 Talks

Attacks from a New Front Door in 4G & 5G mobile networks

Blackhat 2021 Talks

Ettus USRP B210
srsENB 3,484 5 months ago
Open5GS
sysmo-usim-tool
pysim 338 11 days ago
CoIMS
CoIMS_Wiki 84 almost 4 years ago
Docker_open5gs

Blackhat 2021 Talks / Recent SeaGlass IMSI-Catcher News - Organizing -

SeaGlass: Enabling City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection

Blackhat 2021 Talks / CERT/Media Alerts

Voice over LTE implementations contain multiple vulnerabilities - CERT ALERT

Blackhat 2021 Talks / 5G Cellular Attacks (Soon to be updated)

Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information
European 5G Security in the Wild: Reality versus Expectations
Threat modeling framework for mobile communication system
ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE FOR 5G NETWORKS 2,901 13 days ago
Protecting the 4G and 5G Cellular PagingProtocols against Security and Privacy Attacks 2,901 13 days ago
Insecure Connection Bootstrapping in Cellular Networks: The Root of All Evil 2,901 13 days ago
5GReasoner: A Property-Directed Security and Privacy Analysis Framework for 5G Cellular Network Protocol 2,901 13 days ago
QCSniper - A tool For capture 2g-4g air traffic using qualcomm phones
Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information
New Privacy Threat on 3G, 4G, and Upcoming 5G AKA Protocols
New Vulnerabilities in 5G Networks
Side Channel Analysis in 4G and 5G Cellular Networks
5G NR Jamming, Spoofing, and Sniffing 2,901 13 days ago

Blackhat 2021 Talks / 4G/LTE Cellular Attacks

LTRACK: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
Detecting Fake 4G Base Stations In Real Time
BaseSAFE: Baseband SAnitized Fuzzing through Emulation
Paging Storm Attacks against 4G/LTE Networks from Regional Android Botnets: Rationale, Practicality, and Implications
This is Your President Speaking:Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks
Hacking Public Warning System in LTE Mobile Networks
RF Exploitation: IoT/OT Hacking with SDR
Forcing a targeted LTE Cellphone Into an Eavesdropping Network
Hacking Cellular Networks
Bye-Bye-IMSI-Catchers
White-Stingray: Evaluating IMSI Catchers Detection Applications
Breaking_LTE_on_Layer_Two 2,901 13 days ago
LTE/LTE-A Jamming, Spoofing, and Sniffing - Assessment and Mitigation
Exploring LTE security and protocol exploits with open source software and low-cost software radio by Roger Jover 2,901 13 days ago
LTE PROTOCOL EXPLOITS: IMSI CATCHERS,BLOCKING DEVICES AND LOCATION LEAKS 2,901 13 days ago
Practical Attacks Against Privacy and Availability in 4G/LTE Mobile Communication Systems 2,901 13 days ago
Using OpenBTS - "Experimental_Security_Assessment_of_BMW_Cars by KeenLab"
LTE Security – How Good Is It?
Guide to LTE Security
Small Tweaks do Not Help: Differential Power Analysis of MILENAGE Implementations in 3G/4G USIM Cards
4G Access Level Security Assessment
Small Tweaks do Not Help: Differential Power Analysis of MILENAGE Implementations in 3G/4G USIM Cards
LTE security and protocol exploits
LTE Recon - (Defcon 23)
LTE Pwnage: Hacking HLR/HSS and MME CoreNetwork Elements
Modmobjam - Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but also jam today
WiFi IMSI Catcher
Analysis of the LTE Control Plane
Demystifying the Mobile Network by Chuck McAuley
NSA PLAYSET GSM
VoLTE Phreaking - Ralph Moonen 2,901 13 days ago
Baseband Attacks: Remote Exploitation of Memory Corruptions in Cellular Protocol Stack
Hiding in Plain Signal:Physical Signal Overshadowing Attack on LTE
LTE Security Disabled—Misconfiguration in Commercial Network
Shupeng-All-The-4G-Modules-Could-Be-Hacked

Blackhat 2021 Talks / SIM Specific Attacks

Rooting SIM-cards
The Most Expensive Lesson Of My Life: Details of SIM port hack

Blackhat 2021 Talks / Stingray's

https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gv5k3x/heres-how-much-a-stingray-cell-phone-surveillance-tool-costs
https://www.nyclu.org/en/stingrays

Blackhat 2021 Talks / SS7/Telecom Specific

D1T2 - Bypassing GSMA Recommendations on SS7 Networks - Kirill Puzankov 2,901 13 days ago
http://www.hackitoergosum.org/2010/HES2010-planglois-Attacking-SS7.pdf
Getting in the SS7 kingdom: hard technology and disturbingly easy hacks= to get entry points in the walled garden

Blackhat 2021 Talks / Github/Code Repo's

https://github.com/Synacktiv-contrib/Modmobjam 84 over 4 years ago
https://github.com/Synacktiv-contrib/Modmobmap 97 over 1 year ago

Misc IMSI/Cellular Tools

https://github.com/Evrytania/LTE-Cell-Scanner 584 over 5 years ago
https://harrisonsand.com/imsi-catcher/
https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher 3,212 4 months ago
https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector 4,740 about 1 month ago
https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/wiki/Passive-IMSI-Catcher 1,346 11 months ago

Misc IMSI/Cellular Tools / Resources

RTL-SDR
MCC-MNC Codes for Base Stations
RFSec-ToolKit 1,565 6 months ago
FakeBTS
https://rmusser.net/docs/Wireless.html#cn

Misc IMSI/Cellular Tools / Misc

Touching the Untouchables: Dynamic Security
https://www.eff.org/pages/cell-site-simulatorsimsi-catchers
http://leetupload.com/blagosphere/2014/03/28/analyze-and-crack-gsm-downlink-with-a-usrp/
AT&T Microcell FAIL - fail0verflow (Older blog article, but still a good read)

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