SIM Trace Appears to Stop Processing APDUs

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Jonathan Thomas lexington1776 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 19:52:40 UTC 2012


Martin,

Thank you for your response.  It doesn't appear that following those
steps fixes what does appear to be a APDU parsing issue.  Take a look
at this set of APDUs and notice that the last APDU should have been:

a0 b2 04 04 26 b2 ff ff

but the a0 was appended to the previous line.

APDU: (9):  a0 a4 00 00 02 7f 20 9f 23
APDU: (42):  a0 c0 00 00 23 00 00 00 00 7f 20 02 00 00 00 00 00 16 b3
02 37 04 00 83 8a 83 8a 00 03 00 00 fa b0 00 00 00 00 2f 06 06 90 00
APDU: (9):  a0 a4 00 00 02 6f c7 9f 13
APDU: (26):  a0 c0 00 00 13 00 00 00 98 6f c7 04 00 11 00 44 01 06 01
26 00 6f 06 04 90 00
APDU: (45):  a0 b2 01 04 26 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff 90 00
APDU: (45):  a0 b2 02 04 26 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff 90 00
APDU: (45):  a0 b2 03 04 26 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
90 00 a0
APDU: (7):  b2 04 04 26 b2 ff ff


When you say 'reset' I assume you mean that you physically press the
'Reset' button on the board.  Any other helpful hints that might
fix/bypass this parsing issue?

Thank you,
Jonathan

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Martin Paljak <martin at martinpaljak.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Your APDU output is garbage because it seems you have broken your host
> side software or reset the board after you powered up your phone.
>
> I experienced similar issues but it usually worked after fixing a
> small apdu parsing bug in simtrace tool after following this:
>
> 1. phone off
> 2. reset simtrace board
> 3. start simtrace application
> 4. power up phone
>
> Martin
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 16:49, Jonathan Thomas <lexington1776 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Harald,
>>
>> Thank you for your response.  I will try and summarize what we are
>> seeing based on your questions below.
>>
>> The word 'freeze' is probably not accurate as the the simtrace
>> application is still running/executing without receiving a termination
>> signal, etc.  What we are experiencing is that the output, both with
>> Wireshark and stdout, stops displaying any APDU traffic.
>>
>> For instance, when I boot up the phone for this first time, the
>> simtrace application will appear to work correctly, but at some point
>> during the reset it will stop displaying APDU traffic.  For instance
>> on this run it stops after a response from the SIM:
>>
>> APDU: (183):  03 00 00 fa b0 00 00 00 2f 06 06 90 00 a0 a4 00 00 02 a4
>> 6f 3a 9f 13 a0 c0 00 00 13 c0 00 00 0d 48 6f 3a 04 00 11 00 22 01 06
>> 01 22 00 6f 06 03 90 00 a0 a4 00 00 02 a4 7f 20 9f 23 a0 c0 00 00 23
>> c0 00 00 00 00 7f 20 02 00 00 00 00 00 16 33 02 37 04 00 83 8a 83 8a
>> 00 03 00 00 fa b0 00 00 00 00 2f 06 06 90 00 a0 a4 00 00 02 a4 6f 7e
>> 9f 13 a0 c0 00 00 13 c0 00 00 00 0b 6f 7e 04 00 11 00 44 01 06 00 00
>> 00 6f 06 06 90 00 a0 a4 00 00 02 a4 6f 07 9f 13 a0 c0 00 00 13 c0 00
>> 00 00 09 6f 07 04 00 14 00 44 01 06 00 00 00 6f 06 03 90 00 a0 a4 00
>> 00 02 a4
>> APDU: (7):  6f 07 9f 13 a0 c0 00
>> APDU: (7):  00 13 c0 00 00 00 09
>> APDU: (7):  6f 07 04 00 14 00 44
>> APDU: (7):  01 06 00 00 00 6f 06
>> APDU: (7):  03 90 00 a0 a4 00 00
>> APDU: (7):  02 a4 6f 07 9f 13 a0
>> APDU: (199):  c0 00 00 13 c0 00 00 09 6f 07 04 00 14 00 44 01 06 00 00
>> 00 6f 06 03 90 00 a0 b0 00 00 09 b0 08 09 10 10 10 32 54 76 98 90 00
>> a0 b0 00 00 09 b0 08 09 10 10 10 32 54 76 98 90 00 a0 a4 00 00 02 a4
>> 6f 78 9f 13 a0 c0 00 00 13 c0 00 00 00 02 6f 78 04 00 14 00 44 01 06
>> 00 00 00 6f 06 05 90 00 a0 b0 00 00 02 b0 00 01 90 00 a0 a4 00 00 02
>> a4 6f 31 9f 13 a0 c0 00 00 13 c0 00 00 00 01 6f 31 04 00 14 00 44 01
>> 06 00 00 00 6f 06 05 90 00 a0 b0 00 00 01 b0 00 90 00 a0 a4 00 00 02
>> a4 6f 30 9f 13 a0 c0 00 00 13 c0 00 00 96 96 6f 30 04 00 11 00 44 01
>> 06 00 00 00 6f 06 04 90 00 a0 b0 00 00 96 b0 ff ff ff ff
>>
>> After this point it will no longer display (Wireshark or stdout) any
>> APDU traffic.  The board itself shows no indication that there are any
>> issues and the process 'simtrace' is still running.  If I restart the
>> phone the only APDU I see is the ATR APDU.
>>
>> If I now stop the simtrace application and restart the application I
>> will get the same result on boot up of the phone.  If I restart the
>> application after the phone has been completely booted then I will see
>> the status messages between the phone and the SIM for some period of
>> time before that traffic also stops displaying to the screen.
>>
>> After a while I will see this error from the simtrace application:
>> "Error submitting BULK IN urb: No error".
>>
>> An alternative phone will stop displaying APDUs, but at a different
>> location from the first (this doesn't seem to be consistent):
>>
>> APDU: (7):  32 05 83 02 6f 42 a5
>> APDU: (7):  03 80 01 71 8a 01 05
>> APDU: (7):  8b 03 6f 06 07 80 02
>> APDU: (7):  00 fa 88 00 90 00 00
>> APDU: (7):  b2 01 04 32 b2 ff ff
>>
>> Please let me know if I can clarify/focus these issues.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> sorry to hear you are having trouble.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 05:10:35PM -0500, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>> With testing against all three of the SIMTrace modules we purchased we
>>>> have found the trace appears to lock-up or freeze randomly through
>>>> processing of the APDUs.
>>>
>>> Can you please indicate what exactly seems to trigger those freezes?
>>> Is there any particular phone model or sim card (or combination
>>> thereof)?
>>>
>>> What can you see on the simtrace UART at the time of the freeze?
>>>
>>> Does the USB device re-enumerate (USB reset) when you observe the freeze?
>>>
>>> Does the simtrace program keep running or does it stop?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>        Harald
>>> --
>>> - Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
>>> ============================================================================
>>> "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
>>>                                                  (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
>>




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