SMART INSTALL IMSI-catcher AND SNIFFING GSM TRAFFIC ON WINDOWS WORKSTATION AND VMWARE WITH HACKRF AND RTL_SDR

Installation

• Download GNU Radio Live SDR Environment 3.7.11
• Download VMware Workstation Player
• Install VMware Workstation Player
• Start VMware Workstation Player
• Create a new virtual machine , installer disc image file (iso) with GNU Radio Live SDR Environment image
• Open virtual machine
• Download ZIP file to github of Oros42/IMSI-catcher
• UnZip Oros42/IMSI-catcher on desktop

Install and update code with this command:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ptrkrysik/gr-gsm

sudo apt update

sudo apt install gr-gsm

Find frequencies

Metod 1:

Run in a terminal:

grgsm_scanner

otherwise for HackRF

Metod 2:

You can either use the grgsm_scanner program from gr-gsm mentioned above, or fetch the kalibrate-hackrf tool like this:

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf libhackrf-dev

git clone https://github.com/scateu/kalibrate-hackrf

cd kalibrate-hackrf/

./bootstrap

./configure

make

sudo make install

Run

kal -s GSM900

kal: Scanning for GSM-900 base stations.

GSM-900:

chan: 14 (937.8MHz + 10.449kHz) power: 3327428.82

chan: 15 (938.0MHz + 4.662kHz) power: 3190712.41

Running:

Open 2 terminals:

In terminal 1 entern in the desktop directory to save UnZip Oros42/IMSI-catcher and insert:

sudo python simple_IMSI-catcher.py --sniff

You can add -h to display options.

In terminal 2 insert (example):

gr-gsm-livemon –f 939.9M