- Alcor micro usb card reader is it maleware serial#
- Alcor micro usb card reader is it maleware software#
Alcor micro usb card reader is it maleware serial#
However, I replugged the serial cable and typed a random 2 command. Hmmm ?!!!įollowing that I unplugged the serial cable, inserted the card and launched opensc-explorer again opensc-explorer However, it did not like the fact of having the serial cable attached and quit with the previously seen Unresponsive card error. I plugged in the Visa card and tried to start opensc-explorer. isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke Dump data isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 Use stty to check the current speed and maybe change it. Thus, it is required to set the speed of the serial adapter.
Serial attached devices need to talk to each other at the same speed otherwise they miss characters or interpret data wrongly. usb 2-1: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523 usb 2-1: new full-speed USB device number 26 using xhci_hcd The following console tells us that the serial device was set to ttyUSB0. Just cat the relevant tty device and you are done.įor that you need to check whether your serial adapter got detected and what ID it was given. On Linux it is quite simple to listen to serial communication.
Alcor micro usb card reader is it maleware software#
Btw, there is a multitude of software packages that aim to sniff APDUs on Linux and Windows but that’s not what I ultimately aim for. I will use the device to get a clue about the raw packets being sent back and forth between software/hardware and the card. Just to give a bit of an understanding what the intended purpose of the device was. The interface features a serial port that can be used to sniff traffic, emulate cards or to relay traffic to a central host with a single card being used by a multitude of Season Interfaces. I got me an old fashioned Season Interface which was used in early days to pirate satellite and pay TV.
Analyze Card Communication Season Interface However, we have no final proof yet and I still lack understanding how the billing system really works. This supported my first guess that this thing is no Smart Card at all. Neither opensc nor cardpeek were able to interact with the gamma card. Mine held logs of purchases including date and amount back to 3 years. There are interesting things to read on your card. I tried a Visa which happily worked with opensc but I needed cardpeek for a Master Card, whereas opensc and cardpeek both failed on my Maestro Card. And if opensc-explorer cannot talk to the card try cardpeek. opensc-explorerįailed to connect to card: Unresponsive card (correctly inserted?)Īlso make sure to check whether you inserted the card correctly or upside down before you let your enthusiasm drop. Or use something more visual like cardpeek in order to pull contents and capabilities from your card.Īnd sometimes you fail to read a card although it looks like a smart card, has a pinout like a smart card, but in fact is not a smart card. Using reader with a card: Alcor Micro AU9540 00 00Īs soon as there is a valid prompt we may try to interact with the card. If you have a working reader plug in a card an run the explorer again. Note, that I tried with an old Schlumberger reader which was actually just a USB cable being soldered to an ID-1 Socket and which obviously is not being detected as reader as it is just open wires being plugged in when no card is mounted. Then check again with the explorer opensc-explorer usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=9540 usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 22 using xhci_hcd Thus, plug in your reader and check whether it is detected by the OS dmesg
If you have no card reader available opensc-explorer will complain opensc-explorer According to the card’s ID-1 (ISO 7810) form factor and contact placement it could be a smart card and I would like to understand whether such a billing system is really that advanced. Only few details are available from the manufacturer’s web site. It is plugged into a box that measures current flow and powers the machines.