During a wireless assessment your script invokes the BlueBug tool to silently establish an RFCOMM session with a nearby smartphone and run AT commands that dump the device's phone book. Against which Bluetooth profile is BlueBugging chiefly aimed, permitting this type of unauthorized serial-style control?
BlueBugging works by abusing the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP). SPP exposes an RFCOMM channel that was intended to emulate a classic serial cable so headsets and other peripherals could send AT commands to a phone. Early implementations accepted incoming RFCOMM connections without enforcing proper pairing or authentication, allowing an attacker to open the SPP service and issue AT commands that read the address book, send SMS messages, or place calls. Other profiles such as A2DP (audio streaming), OPP (simple file transfers), and PAN (network bridging) do not provide the serial command interface BlueBug requires, so they cannot be used to perform this attack.
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