While conducting a wireless penetration test you discover an employee's smartphone that is still in discoverable mode and exposes the OBEX Object Push profile without requiring pairing. You want to quietly connect and download the phone's contacts and calendar entries without displaying anything on the user's screen. Which Bluetooth attack technique is designed for this purpose?
Bluesnarfing targets devices with improperly secured OBEX Object Push or File Transfer profiles. By abusing these services without pairing, an attacker can copy data such as phonebooks, calendars, or files from the victim's device without any on-screen notification.
Bluejacking only sends unsolicited contact cards or messages; it does not retrieve data.
Bluebugging exploits firmware flaws to gain command-level control of the handset, often enabling call or SMS functions rather than silent file extraction.
The BlueBorne family involves remote code-execution vulnerabilities in Bluetooth stacks and is not specifically focused on data pulling via OBEX. Therefore, bluesnarfing is the correct choice.
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