iOS device usb packet analyser and prettifier To listen to usb traffic use socat
It can be installed with homebrew
brew install socat
iOS-based devices talk with host via usbmuxd process and it's unix socket located at /var/run/usbmuxd.
To sniff the traffic you must replace original socket with fake one, redirect the traffic and log data.
sudo mv /var/run/usbmuxd /var/run/usbmuxd_real
sudo socat -t100 -x -v \
UNIX-LISTEN:/var/run/usbmuxd,mode=777,reuseaddr,fork \
UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/usbmuxd_real \
> /tmp/usbmuxd.log 2>&1
Use ioslog2html.sh to convert your log to html representation:
/bin/bash ioslog2html.sh /tmp/usbmuxd.log ~/Desktop/usbmuxd.log.html
You may have issues with base64-encoded images transfers, they may corrupt log, working on it.