PageOutline = Osmocom SIMtrace =

Osmocom SIMtrace is a software and hardware system for passively tracing SIM-ME communication between the SIM card and the mobile phone.

It works by utilizing the T=0 capable USART of the usb-attached AT91SAM7 microcontroller.

The USART passively receives the bytes as they are exchanged on the ISO 7816-3 / TS 11.11 interface between SIM and phone.
The received bytes are sent via USB to the PC, where a program called {{{simtrace}}} on the PC gathers data from the USB device,
parses the APDUs and forwards them via [wiki:GSMTAP] to the [wiki:wireshark] protocol analyzer.

Features * Completely passive scanner * RST and ATR detection * auto-bauding with PPS / PTS support * Segmentation of APDUs TODO * Check for parity errors * Verify TCK / PCK check-bytes Hardware

There is no ready-built hardware for this yet. They only existing implementations used an Olimex SAM7-P64 development board
with some of the I/O lines hooked up to the mechanical SIM card adapters from [wiki:RebelSIM_Scanner]. We are thinking of
doing some custom hardware, but nothing is certain yet.

=== Interconnections ===

The hardware schematics are very, very simple:

• Connect SIM-RST with PA7
• Connect SIM-I/O with PA6 and PA1
• Connect SIM-CLK with PA2 and PA4
• Connect SIM-GND with GND

=== Mode of operation ===

The USART of the AT91SAM7S is capable of T=0. However, the documentation only mentions it in clock-master mode, like you
would run it in a smart card reader to actively talk to a smart card. However, by using the USART input clock multiplexer,
you can use an externally-generated CLK like the one from the SIM card socket of the phone.

Firmware

The Firmware for the AT91SAM7S device was written by reusing a lot of the code for the [http://www.openpcd.org/ OpenPCD]
RFID reader.

There is a {{{simtrace}}} branch in the git://git.gnumonks.org/openpcd.git repository containing the latest firmware code.

Eventually, the OS part of OpenPCD/OpenPICC/SIMtrace will be separated. At that point, the firmware source can become
part of simtrace.git

=== Building the firmware ===

Precondition: You need to set your PATH in a way that contains an arm-elf toolchain, i.e. the same way that you build [OsmocomBB].

{{{
$ git clone git://git.gnumonks.org/openpcd.git
$ cd openpcd/firmware
$ git checkout simtrace
$ make -f Makefile.dfu BOARD=OLIMEX
$ make BOARD=SIMTRACE DEBUG=1 TARGET=main_simtrace
$ cat dfu.bin main_simtraece.bin > main_simtrace.samba
}}} === TODO ===

Host PC Software

The {{{simtrace}}} program is part of the git://git.osmocom.org/simtrace.git repository. It will bind to the USB device
and send GSMTAP frames using UDP/IPv4 to localhost.

It will also print hexdumps of the frames to the console, looking like this: {{{
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 07 9f 0f
APDU: (22): a0 c0 00 00 0f 00 00 00 09 6f 07 04 00 15 00 15 01 02 00 00 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 38 9f 0f
APDU: (22): a0 c0 00 00 0f 00 00 00 09 6f 38 04 00 15 00 55 01 02 00 00 91 78
APDU: (16): a0 b0 00 00 09 ff 3f ff ff 00 00 3f 03 00 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f ad 9f 0f
APDU: (8): a0 b0 00 00 01 00 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 07 9f 0f
APDU: (16): a0 b0 00 00 09 08 49 06 20 11 49 00 11 06 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 7e 9f 0f
APDU: (18): a0 b0 00 00 0b ff ff ff ff 64 f0 00 ff fe 00 03 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 78 9f 0f
APDU: (9): a0 b0 00 00 02 00 01 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 74 9f 0f
APDU: (23): a0 b0 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 20 9f 0f
APDU: (16): a0 b0 00 00 09 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 07 91 78
APDU: (9): a0 a4 00 00 02 6f 30 9f 0f
APDU: (22): a0 c0 00 00 0f 00 00 00 f0 6f 30 04 00 11 00 55 01 02 00 00 91 78
}}}

Wireshark integration

There is an experimental patch, also part of the simtrace.git package. You will have to apply this against the latest
wireshark developer version.

Image(wireshark-sim.png)

Protocol parsing is far from being complete, patches are always welcome!