Release 2018-12-R1
Prerequisites
There are some prerequisites that need to be installed before building libbtbb and the Ubertooth tools. Many of these are available from your operating system’s package repositories, for example:
Debian / Ubuntu / Kali
sudo apt-get install cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev make gcc g++ libbluetooth-dev \ pkg-config python3-numpy python3-qtpy
Fedora / Red Hat
su -c "yum install libusb1-devel make gcc wget tar bluez-libs-devel"
Mac OS X users can use either MacPorts or Homebrew to install the required packages:
brew install libusb wget cmake pkg-config or sudo port install libusb wget cmake python38 py38-numpy py38-qtpy
FreeBSD users can install the host tools and library directly from the ports and package system:
sudo pkg install ubertooth
libbtbb
Next the Bluetooth baseband library (libbtbb) needs to be built for the Ubertooth tools to decode Bluetooth packets:
wget https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/libbtbb/archive/2018-12-R1.tar.gz -O libbtbb-2018-12-R1.tar.gz tar -xf libbtbb-2018-12-R1.tar.gz cd libbtbb-2018-12-R1 mkdir build cd build cmake .. make sudo make install
Linux users: if you are installing for the first time, or you receive errors about finding the library, you should run:
sudo ldconfig
Ubertooth tools
The Ubertooth repository contains host code for sniffing Bluetooth packets, configuring the Ubertooth and updating firmware. All three are built and installed by default using the following method:
wget https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/releases/download/2018-12-R1/ubertooth-2018-12-R1.tar.xz tar xf ubertooth-2018-12-R1.tar.xz cd ubertooth-2018-12-R1/host mkdir build cd build cmake .. make sudo make install
Linux users: if you are installing for the first time, or you receive errors about finding the library, you should run:
sudo ldconfig
Wireshark
Wireshark version 1.12 and newer includes the Ubertooth BLE plugin by default. It is also possible to capture BLE from Ubertooth directly into Wireshark with a little work.
The Wireshark BTBB and BR/EDR plugins allow Bluetooth baseband traffic that has been captured using Kismet to be analysed and disected within the Wireshark GUI. They are built separately from the rest of the Ubertooth and libbtbb software.
The directory passed to cmake as MAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR
varies from system to system, but it should be the location of existing Wireshark plugins, such as asn1.so
and ethercat.so
. On macOS this is likely /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/PlugIns/wireshark/
.
sudo apt-get install wireshark wireshark-dev libwireshark-dev cmake cd libbtbb-2018-12-R1/wireshark/plugins/btbb mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wireshark/libwireshark3/plugins .. make sudo make install
Then repeat for the BT BR/EDR plugin:
sudo apt-get install wireshark wireshark-dev libwireshark-dev cmake cd libbtbb-2018-12-R1/wireshark/plugins/btbredr mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wireshark/libwireshark3/plugins .. make sudo make install
Third Party Software
There are a number of pieces of third party software that support the Ubertooth. Some support Ubertooth out of the box, while others require plugins to be built.
Firmware
This completes the install of the Ubertooth tools, the next step is to look at the getting started guide. You should always update the firmware on the Ubertooth device to match the software release version that you are using.