BlueDoS: A Novel Approach to Perform and Analyse DoS Attacks on Bluetooth Devices

Poonam Shelke, Saurav Gupta, Sukumar Nandi

2024

Abstract

The use of Bluetooth devices is surging across the digital landscape. As the diversity and quantity of these devices increase, so does the focus on security within Bluetooth technology. Our research primarily concentrates on DoS attacks on Bluetooth devices. We discovered that existing tools rely on the Linux Bluetooth drivers and utilities provided by the Bluez protocol stack. Because of this reliance, these tools require full command over Bluetooth communication as they are confined to the functionalities offered by the underlying protocol stack. To address this limitation, we developed a Bluetooth driver binary using Bluez Linux protocol stack, our testbed named ”Bluedos”. As Bluedos is developed using C, similar to other Linux drivers, it provides more flexibility in packet creation and handling Bluetooth connections at the operating system level. With ”Blue-dos”, we extensively analysed DoS attacks on various Bluetooth devices, using headphones from reputable brands to illustrate potential attack vectors. We also analysed the ramifications of DoS attacks on different connection parameters, such as response time, and introduced a novel l2connect and an l2connect flooding attack against Bluetooth devices. We validated our findings using a Bluetooth sniffer and drew conclusions based on our analyses.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Shelke P., Gupta S. and Nandi S. (2024). BlueDoS: A Novel Approach to Perform and Analyse DoS Attacks on Bluetooth Devices. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT; ISBN 978-989-758-709-2, SciTePress, pages 838-843. DOI: 10.5220/0012845700003767

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt24,
author={Poonam Shelke and Saurav Gupta and Sukumar Nandi},
title={BlueDoS: A Novel Approach to Perform and Analyse DoS Attacks on Bluetooth Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT},
year={2024},
pages={838-843},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012845700003767},
isbn={978-989-758-709-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT
TI - BlueDoS: A Novel Approach to Perform and Analyse DoS Attacks on Bluetooth Devices
SN - 978-989-758-709-2
AU - Shelke P.
AU - Gupta S.
AU - Nandi S.
PY - 2024
SP - 838
EP - 843
DO - 10.5220/0012845700003767
PB - SciTePress