Useful Tools

Command Line Tools

hcitool, hcidump, gatttool

These command line tools are part of the BlueZ package which is now built in to linux.

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Android Apps

NRF Connect

IOS & Android app, desktop app. Great for looking around at EDR & BLE advertisements and devices and what's out there, then reading/writing GATT characteristics. Can also flash OTA firmware.

Nordic Thingy, nRF Beacon, nRF Blinky, nRF Logger, nRF Toolbox

Nordic apps for using various nordic things.

nRF Mesh

Nordic app for controlling Bluetooth Mesh devices

Dialog's SmartConsole, SUOTA, SmartConfig, Mesh, DSPS

These set of apps from Dialog Semiconductors perform some interesting functions. Most notably, SUOTA allows for flashing of OTA firmware to Dialog's chipset devices if enabled. The list of service & char UUIDs follows:

Function	UUID
SPOTA_GPIO_MAP_UUID	724249f0-5eC3-4b5f-8804-42345af08651
SPOTA_MEM_DEV_UUID	8082caa8-41a6-4021-91c6-56f9b954cc34
SPOTA_MEM_INFO_UUID	6c53db25-47a1-45fe-a022-7c92fb334fd4
SPOTA_PATCH_DATA_UUID	457871e8-d516-4ca1-9116-57d0b17b9cb2
SPOTA_PATCH_LEN_UUID	9d84b9a3-000c-49d8-9183-855b673fda31
SPOTA_SERVICE_UUID	0000fef5-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
SPOTA_SERV_STATUS_UUID	5f78df94-798c-46f5-990a-b3eb6a065c88
SUOTA_L2CAP_PSM_UUID	61C8849C-F639-4765-946E-5C3419BEBB2A
SUOTA_MTU_UUID	B7DE1EEA-823D-43BB-A3AF-C4903DFCE23C
SUOTA_PATCH_DATA_CHAR_SIZE_UUID	42C3DFDD-77BE-4D9C-8454-8F875267FB3B
SUOTA_VERSION_UUID	64B4E8B5-0DE5-401B-A21D-ACC8DB3B913A

RaMBLE

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Estimote

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Beaconstac, My Beacon Editor, BeaconStone

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Bluefruit Connect, Bluefruit_Playground, Adafruit...

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Bluetooth Mesh

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LightBlue

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TagInfo & TagWriter

NFC apps. Not Bluetooth, but many Bluetooth devices have an NFC component, and this can be useful to understand that side of it.

Python Libraries

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Go libraries

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Android App Reversing

JadxGUI

A good part of BLE & GATT hacking comes from understanding how a device interacts with an app.

Hardware

Nordic Thingy:52

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Chipsets from Vendors & Dev kits

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Raspberry Pi

4, 0w, etc. all have good Bluetooth chipsets on tiny boards that run a full Linux OS. These can be programmed to do a LOT.