AppleJuice

Apple BLE Proximity Pairing Message Spoofing

🔴 Disclaimer

These scripts are an experimental PoC that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to send proximity pairing messages to Apple devices.
This project is created for educational purposes and cannot be used for law violation or personal gain. The author of this project is not responsible for any possible harm caused by the materials of this project.

Updates

9/21/23

Thanks to 0DayCTF the random option has been added!

To run with random :
python3 app.py --random
or
python3 app.py -r -i 20
to set to it to random and the time interval to 20ms, making it more spammy.

9/13/2023

After Techryptic's attempt to steal the work of myself and WillyJL, Willy has taken the time to give an insanely in-depth timeline of the events and proof of the work being stolen (Git and my typos dont lie!) Check out the full report below and please help us spread the word that the person who has been all over the news outlets claiming this as their work, stole the code and gave none of the actual developers credit.

The Controversy Behind Apple BLE Spam

Flipper Zero

Thanks to the amazing work of Willy-JL this has been added to the Flipper Zero Xtreme Firmware. It's currently in dev and will be officially released in the next update.

To install it now, follow the guide below from the Xtreme Firmware page to clone and compile the current dev build that contains the Apple BLE Spam app.

⚠️ Warning!
We will not give basic support for compiling in our server. This is intended for people that already know what they are doing!

To download the needed tools:
$ git clone --recursive --jobs 8 https://github.com/Flipper-XFW/Xtreme-Firmware.git
$ cd Xtreme-Firmware/

To flash directly to the Flipper (Needs to be connected via USB, qFlipper closed)
$ ./fbt flash_usb_full

To compile a TGZ package
$ ./fbt updater_package

To build and launch a single app:
$ ./fbt launch APPSRC=some_appid

ESP-32

Thanks to ronaldstoner for porting this over to the ESP-32

Android

Check out this in-depth walk though by Mobile Hacker about running AppleJuice on a rooted Android phone.

About This Project

This was created in response to the various AppleTV spoof messages being sent out during DEF CON 31. After experiencing it first hand, I had to figure out what was happening. The existing research projects I could find (see credits) had great info but were both a couple years out of date with broken package dependencies, so I decided to take what I could from them and start building from there.

Hardware Requirements

To run these scripts you need a Linux machine with an internal Bluetooth card or a USB Bluetooth adapter.

All original testing was done on a Lenovo T480 with a built-in Bluetooth adapter.
Later tested on Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Raspberry Pi Zero W running Kali Linux with a Zexmte Long Range USB Bluetooth 5.1 Adapter with Dual Antenna.

Range
Range of messages by device type

Device	Range
Lenovo	Couple feet from machine
Raspberry Pi and long range adapter	20+ feet indoors in heavy BLE traffic

Installation Instructions

Please follow in this exact order or you might run into issues with bluetooth dependencies.

Clone the Main Repo

git clone https://github.com/ECTO-1A/AppleJuice.git && cd ./AppleJuice

Install dependencies

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y bluez libpcap-dev libev-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev cmake libbluetooth-dev

Dependencies requiring manual installation

⚠️ Warning
The pybluez library is broken on GitHub and needs to be installed manually

Download the latest version 
pip install git+https://github.com/pybluez/pybluez.git#egg=pybluez

pycrypto is not maintained, be sure to install pycryptodome instead 
pip install pycryptodome

Install requirements

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Execute scripts without sudo

To be able to run without sudo, you need to set the capabilities of the python binary to allow it to access raw sockets. This is done with the following command

sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip $(eval readlink -f $(which python))

Reboot Machine

Several users have reported the need for a reboot after installing the bluetooth packages in order for everything to work properly.

Usage

Before running the script, check that your Bluetooth adapter is connected and showing as hci0

Run hcitool dev to get a list of connected adapters

hcitool dev
Devices:
    hci0    00:00:7C:00:3A:13

📝 Note
If the adapter is showing as hci1 you will need to edit the dev_id variable in the scripts to match

Available options

All messages have been combined into a single app. You can now run app.py to get a list of available options.
To run the script use -d (number of message)

Example
app.py -d 13

python3 app.py
Please select a message option using -d.
Available message options:
1: Airpods
2: Airpods Pro
3: Airpods Max
4: Airpods Gen 2
5: Airpods Gen 3
6: Airpods Pro Gen 2
7: PowerBeats
8: PowerBeats Pro
9: Beats Solo Pro
10: Beats Studio Buds
11: Beats Flex
12: BeatsX
13: Beats Solo3
14: Beats Studio3
15: Beats Studio Pro
16: Beats Fit Pro
17: Beats Studio Buds+
18: AppleTV Setup
19: AppleTV Pair
20: AppleTV New User
21: AppleTV AppleID Setup
22: AppleTV Wireless Audio Sync
23: AppleTV Homekit Setup
24: AppleTV Keyboard
25: AppleTV 'Connecting to Network'
26: Homepod Setup
27: Setup New Phone
28: Transfer Number to New Phone
29: TV Color Balance

Examples

beatssolopro.py

Model: Beats Solo Pro

airpods_max.py

Model: Airpods Max

Credit

• FuriousMAC and Hexway for all the prior research on Apple BLE, Continuity, and building the Wireshark disector.
• Jae Bochs for exposing this to me at DEF CON 31 which made me jump into learning about BLE.
• Guillaume Celosia and Mathieu Cunche for reverse engineering Proximity Pairing