Discovering bluetooth and bluetooth low energy devices

Connect a external adapter CSR4.0 Dongle if you are using virtualbox or Host Machine internal bluetooth works but if you have adapter more better

check with whether blueotooth adapter is working

“#hciconfig” - to check adapter it is connected and running or not

if the adapter is not up run the command “ #hciconfig hcix up”

it is preinstalled in linux machines or you can install with [sudo apt-get install bluez]

bluetoothctl

#bluetoothctl [bluetooth]#help

[bluetooth]#scan on or [bluetooth]#bluetoothctl discoverable on

to scan surrounded devices classic and bluetooth low energy devices can be found by this tool

[bluetooth]#scan off

[bluetooth]#info

[bluetooth]# connect 00:12:34:56:78:90

hcitool (hci-host controller interface) is one of the bluetooth configure tools to send the commands to bluetooth devices to discover and communcate

#### For non-le devices

sudo hcitool -h -help command

sudo hcitool scan

scan for the non LE (Low - Energy) Devices

sudo hcitool info

to get the details of the remote devices

sudo hcitool cc

to get connect with devices

#### For LE devices

sudo hcitool lescan

scan for the LE Devices

sudo hcitool leinfo

to find the device information about the LE device

sudo hcitool lecc

to get connect with LE devices

#sudo hcitool

betterCAP is one of the best tool developed in golang and works simply awesome. while you running the installation script it is automatically downloads the precompiled binaries
step 1: unzip the bettercap folder
step 2: move the bettercap binary file to /usr/bin location – sudo mv bettercap /usr/bin
step 3: install dependencies “sudo apt-get install libnetfilter-queue-dev” and type bettercap in terminal

#sudo bettercap

#help

#help ble.recon

#ble.recon on

#ble.recon off

#ble.show

#ble.enum “”