MIFARE Classic Tool

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About this app

This is a low-level tool for reading, writing and analyzing MIFARE® Classic RFID tags. It is designed for users who have at least basic familiarity with the MIFARE® Classic technology. It provides several features to interact with (and only with) MIFARE® Classic RFID-Tags.


GENERAL INFORMATION
This tool provides several features to interact with (and only with) MIFARE Classic RFID-Tags.
It is designed for users who have at least basic familiarity with the MIFARE Classic technology.

Please read the whole page and make sure you got everything right before rating. If you like MCT please consider to buy the donate version.


My dump/key files are gone after updating MCT!
No. Read this: https://github.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool/issues/326


FEATURES
• Read MIFARE Classic tags
• Save and edit the tag data you read
• Write to MIFARE Classic tags (block-wise)
• Clone MIFARE Classic tags
(Write dump of a tag to another tag; write 'dump-wise')
• Key management based on dictionary-attack
(Write the keys you know in a file (dictionary).
MCT will try to authenticate with these
keys against all sectors and read as much as possible.)
• Format a tag back to the factory/delivery state
• Write the manufacturer block of special MIFARE Classic tags
• Create, edit and save key files (dictionaries)
• Decode & Encode MIFARE Classic Value Blocks
• Decode & Encode MIFARE Classic Access Conditions
• Compare dumps (Diff Tool)
• Display generic tag information
• Display the tag data as highlighted hex
• Display the tag data as 7-Bit US-ASCII
• Display the MIFARE Classic Access Conditions as a table
• Display MIFARE Classic Value Blocks as integer
• Calcualate the BCC
• Quick UID clone feature
• Import/export to common file types
• In-App (offline) help and information
• It's open source (GPLv3) ;)


IMPORTANT NOTES
Some important things are:
• The features this tool provides are very basic. There are no such
fancy things like saving a URL to an RFID-Tag with a nice looking
graphical user interface. If you want so save things on a tag,
you have to input the raw hexadecimal data.
• This App can NOT crack/hack
any MIFARE Classic keys. If you want to read/write an RFID-Tag, you
need keys for this specific tag first. For additional information
please read/see Getting Started from the links section.
• There will be no "brute-force" attack
capability in this application. It is way too slow due
to the protocol.
• The first block of the first sector of an original
MIFARE Classic tag is read-only i.e. not writable. But there
are special MIFARE Classic tags (aka magic tag gen2) that
support writing to the manufacturer block with a simple write command.
This App is able to write to such tags and can therefore create fully
correct clones. However, some special tags require a special command
sequence to put them into the state where writing to the manufacturer
block is possible.
These tags will not work.
Remember this when you are shopping for special tags!
• This app will NOT work on some devices because
their hardware (NFC-controller) does not support MIFARE Classic
( https://github.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool/issues/1 ).
You can find a list of unsupported devices here:
https://github.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool#general-information


LINKS
• Project Page on github:
https://github.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool
• MIFARE Classic Tool on F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=de.syss.MifareClassicTool
• Getting started & other help:
https://github.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool#getting-started
• Bug tracker:
IF YOU ENCOUNTER A PROBLEM PLEASE REPORT IT HERE
https://github.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool/issues
• Additional stuff:
http://publications.icaria.de/mct/
• Thread at the Proxmark3 Forum:
http://www.proxmark.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1535


MIFARE® is a registered trademark of NXP Semiconductors.

Ratings and reviews

Very useful app, but there's a problem in phone compatibility I think, I can clone fine using my hotwav phone, but when I try cloning using Infinix note 50 it fails to write the 0 sector. Might want to check on it? Same source. Same card.

I liked it and found it useful, but I had to uninstall it because whenever I brought a new card near my phone to use another NFC-enabled app, this app would automatically launch, even when it was not previously open. It prevented me from using other NFC-based apps and services. I couldn't find a way to stop this behavior.

Great app minor issue with writing when it says no nfc tag available. Make sure to go into app permissions and have NFC always allowed checked. For some reason android only is allowing the initial read of the card but isn't keeping the NFC active, and it needs to always be active when using the app. Otherwise it won't write

What’s new

Version 4.3.0:
* Target Android SDK 35.
* Fixed one possible crash.

Version 4.2.3:
* Make "cancel" during key map creation more responsive
(Thanks to Alan Le Corre).
* Added more well known keys to the extended key file.
(extended-std.keys file will be updated automatically.)
* Fixed several crashes.
* Some minor code cleanup.

Full changelog: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool/master/CHANGELOG.txt