$20K BLE Sniffer in Action: Demystifying Advertising Packets Like a Pro!

[@dantecruzorozco8850]

man greetings from Mexico, I'm an intern at a company which is debeloping some proyects using BLE and your videos are so usefull, I'm a total freshman in this topic, so I would like to thank you for this

[@TommyK-gz9if]

I need your help. I have these implanted somewhere in me. I think maybe my eyes and I don't know who's doing this. I know that there's some people scanning me somehow. Things there. Any way you can help me figure out how they're doing this to me? I just learned of the RFID things and the BET sniffers recently

[@ulysses_grant]

Wow, this video is a gem! Thanks for sharing this, Mohammad!

[@WiFiTube]

Thanks for this very nice overview! I thought WiFi tools are already really expensive, but a BLE Sniffer for a $20.000 is crazy.

[@NovelBits]

Yep, it sure is crazy! But they have to make up for the low volume sales to be able to cover the high engineering cost for the development of these tools. So I guess in a way it makes sense.

[@GetSwifty]

@@NovelBits sounds like it’s an industry ripe for disruption.

[@NovelBits]

I agree 100%

[@baconsledge]

Thanks, Mohammed...great stuff.

[@NovelBits]

Glad you liked it!

[@sharifulislamshagib4005]

This is an excellent in depth tutorial. Can you share the captured packets that you demonstrated in the tutorial :) ? It will be really helpful. Please keep making such high quality and practical knowledge based tutorials. Best wishes for you and your future tutorial.

[@NovelBits]

Let me look into the best way to share the capture. The original format won’t be helpful unless you have the Ellisys Sniffer Software installed but there may be a better way to export the data. I’ll keep you posted!

[@NovelBits]

Here's a link to get the text version of the capture: bit.ly/2W2Jruq & CSV version: bit.ly/3B46wMj. I'll add them to the video description as well!

[@sharifulislamshagib4005]

@@NovelBits Thanks a lot. It is really helpful. I will try to interpret them in wireshark. Hoping to see future tutorials on Ble Link Layer and HCI.

[@supadupahilton6848]

Hello, Do you have a basic overview and setup tutorial for the BEX-400 sniffer? Just basic captures filtering by MAC address? Thanks!

[@radhikabhat9480]

Excellent! Thanks a lot, keep it up!

[@praveenk1051]

Thanks for this video. Can you please let me know how to test Bluetooth protocol domain, coexistence/certification, and protocol compliance? Can you suggest any document or web link for bluetooth certification testing ?

[@NB-fx9xe]

Please don’t add BGM for your videos. Nice work thanks 😊

[@NovelBits]

Was it distracting? or too loud?

[@wlgrd7052]

@@NovelBits a little too loud at least. Distracts from the actual content, which is REALLY good

[@efarid]

​@@NovelBits On the loud side. You really don't need it. Your voice has a good tune for such nice videos.

[@NovelBits]

No more background music from now on 🙂

[@Daniel-jb5dw]

I really appreciate for making this video! Just a small suggestion, please decrease the volume of the background audio.

[@NovelBits]

Noted! And I’ve stopped including background audio completely. Will be doing a new video soon on using the nRF sniffer and the nRF52840 dongle (just $10)

[@aumradia5397]

Can you tell Which tool is better Teledyne Sniffer Tool or Ellysis ?

[@NovelBits]

Since the recording of this video, a new company has come up to the scene that I believe has superior products. The company is RFcreations. You can check them out on their website here: www.rfcreations.com/ Their mini-moreph is a very compact sniffer that is extremely capable. Also, their software is build from the ground up to be cross platform. www.rfcreations.com/hardware-platform/mini-moreph Now, full disclaimer, this is probably a biased answer, since we have become the exclusive distributor for RFcreations in North America. So, take it with a grain of salt 🙂

[@raghunadh6441]

Thanks for giving valuable information. Nrf52480 sniffer device supports ble 5.0 and above? Please share other devices information in low cost for sniffing.

[@NovelBits]

Yes it does support 5.0 and above. There’s one called the Ubertooth that may be helpful but it doesn’t support 5.0 or above I believe.

[@ИванШлык-н8х]

Thanks for your videos! Tell me please what is different between ubertooth one and nrf52840? Is it possible to use nrf52840 to detect devices that are in invisible mode?

[@NovelBits]

The Ubertooth One is meant as a dedicated sniffer device and the sniffer firmware is open source. However it can be reprogrammed with other firmware with different behavior. The nRF52840 on the other hand is meant as a generic development kit. Nordic does provide firmware for the nRF52840 to operate as a sniffer but the source code is not available.

[@ИванШлык-н8х]

@@NovelBits thanks for your answer! And what about invisible bluetooth devices? How i can find them? It's very interesting

[@mohammadafaneh3481]

@@ИванШлык-н8х What exactly do you mean by invisible devices? In BLE there is a Central and a Peripheral. The Central mainly is invisible because its role is to discover and connect to Peripheral devices and Peripheral devices usually advertise in the open so they can be discovered by Central devices. What exactly is your concern with invisible Bluetooth devices?

[@ИванШлык-н8х]

@@mohammadafaneh3481 you see, I am wondering if it is possible to detect any type of BLE device, be it central or peepheral, if they do not send out advertising packets. We can say that they are "invisible" to other devices. Is it even possible to detect such devices using Ubertooth One or nRF52840 or someting else?

[@NovelBits]

If a device does not advertise or send any BLE messages (for example, in active scanning mode the Central sends a scan request message), then there’s not really a way to discover it (at least not traditionally). The device in that case probably just has the radio on to receive BLE packets, which is not feasibly detectable by other devices.

[@wliterow]

nice work however at $20K is a bit expensive to get into

[@NovelBits]

It is. I’ll be covering the nRF Sniffer ($10!) in the near future!

[@wliterow]

@@NovelBits looking forward to your great lectures - keep up the good work ..