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1 BackDoor: Making Microphones Hear Inaudible Sounds Nirupam Roy Haitham Hassanieh Romit Roy Choudhury University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2 Microphones are everywhere

3 Microphones are everywhere

4 Microphones record audible sounds I hear that Audible sound Speaker I record that

5 Inaudible, but recordable! I can t hear that Speaker I record that

6 Works with unmodified devices Camera Smartwatch Speaker Laptop Hearing Aid

7 Amplitude It s not near-ultrasound Near-ultrasound 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k Frequency chirp.io DopLink UbiComp 13 lisnr.com Spartacus MobiSys 13 Pseudo-ranging SenSys 12 AAMouse MobiSys 15 SoundWave CHI 12 ApneaApp MobiSys 15 AirLink UbiComp 14 Crowd-counting SenSys 12

8 Amplitude Exploiting fundamental nonlinearity 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k Frequency Microphone hardware

9 What can we do with it?

10 Application: Acoustic jammer

11 Application: Acoustic communication

12 Threat: Acoustic DOS attack

13 Threat: Acoustic DOS attack Jamming hearing aids

14 Threat: Acoustic DOS attack Jamming hearing aids Blocking 911 calls

15 Talk outline Microphone Overview System Design Challenges Evaluation

16 Talk outline Microphone Overview System Design Challenges Evaluation

17 Microphone working principle Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

18 Microphone working principle Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

19 Amplitude Microphone working principle 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

20 Amplitude Microphone working principle 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

21 Amplitude Microphone working principle 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

22 Amplitude Microphone working principle 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

23 Microphone working principle Amplitude Microphone filter 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

24 Microphone working principle Amplitude Microphone filter 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Diaphragm Amplifier Filter ADC

25 Microphone working principle V out Output V in Input Output Input V out = a 1 V in V out = a 1 V in + a 2 V in2 + a 3 V in3 + 10k Frequency 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Amplifier

26 Microphone working principle V out Output V in Input Output Input V out = a 1 V in V out = a 1 V in + a 2 V in 2 10k Frequency 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Amplifier

27 Microphone working principle V out Output V in Input Output Input V out = a 1 V in V out = a 1 V in + a 2 V in 2 10k Frequency 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Amplifier

28 Talk outline Microphone Overview System Design Challenges Evaluation

29 Exploiting amplifier non-linearity F 1 = 50kHz F 2 = 40kHz Amplitude Microphone filter F 2 F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency

30 Exploiting amplifier non-linearity F 1 = 50kHz F 2 = 40kHz Amplitude Microphone filter F 2 F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency V out = a 1 V in + a 2 V in 2 ( sin F 1 + sin F 2 ) 2 = cos 2F 1 + cos 2F 2 + cos (F 1 +F 2 ) + cos (F 1 - F 2 )

31 Exploiting amplifier non-linearity Amplitude Microphone filter F 2 F 1 F 1 = 50kHz F 2 = 40kHz 2F 2 (F 1 +F 2 ) 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency V out = a 1 V in + a 2 V in 2 ( sin F 1 + sin F 2 ) 2 = cos 2F 1 + cos 2F 2 + cos (F 1 +F 2 ) + cos (F 1 - F 2 )

32 Exploiting amplifier non-linearity Amplitude Microphone filter F 2 F 1 F 1 = 50kHz F 2 = 40kHz 2F 2 (F 1 +F 2 ) 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency V out = a 1 V in + a 2 V in 2 ( sin F 1 + sin F 2 ) 2 = cos 2F 1 + cos 2F 2 + cos (F 1 +F 2 ) + cos (F 1 - F 2 )

33 Exploiting amplifier non-linearity Amplitude (F 1 -F 2 ) Microphone filter F 2 F 1 F 1 = 50kHz F 2 = 40kHz 2F 2 (F 1 +F 2 ) 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency V out = a 1 V in + a 2 V in 2 ( sin F 1 + sin F 2 ) 2 = cos 2F 1 + cos 2F 2 + cos (F 1 +F 2 ) + cos (F 1 - F 2 )

34 Exploiting amplifier non-linearity Amplitude (F 1 -F 2 ) Microphone filter F 2 F 1 F 1 = 50kHz F 2 = 40kHz 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency

35 Exploiting amplifier non-linearity Amplitude (F 1 -F 2 ) Microphone filter F 2 F 1 F 1 = 50kHz F 2 = 40kHz 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency

36 Talk outline Microphone Overview System Design Challenges Evaluation

37 Challenges Amplitude F 2 F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Speaker s nonlinearity Microphone s nonlinearity Amplitude F 1 -F 2 F 2 F 1 2F 2 F 1 +F 2 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency

38 Challenges Amplitude F 1 -F 2 F 2 F 1 2F 2 F 1 +F 2 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Speaker s nonlinearity Microphone s nonlinearity Amplitude F 1 -F 2 F 2 F 2F 2 F 1 +F 1 2 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency

39 Challenges Amplitude F 1 -F 2 F 2 F 1 2F 2 F 1 +F 2 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency Microphone s nonlinearity Amplitude F 1 -F 2 F 2 F 1 2F 2 F 1 +F 2 2F 1 10k 20k 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k 80k 90k 100k Frequency

40 Challenges Amplitude modulation Ultrasonic speaker

41 Challenges Frequency modulation Ultrasonic speaker

42 Challenges Signal self-demodulation Piezoelectric ringing effect Carrier intermixing Spectrum inversion Carrier power allocation

43 Measurements and Validation Sensitivity to High Frequencies: 60kHz sound was played through an ultrasonic speaker and recorded with a programmable micro- phone circuit.

44 Measurements and Validation

45 Hearing Aid Camera Laptop Smart-watch 0 Android phone 20 iphone 40 Camera 50 khz 60 Hearing aids 40 khz BackDoor Signal (db) Hardware generalizability Devices iphone Android Smartwatch phone Laptop

46 Talk outline Microphone Overview System Design Challenges Evaluation

47 Implementation Communication prototype Jammer prototype

48 Communication performance FM data packets 4kbps up to 1 meter More power can increase the distance

49 Jamming performance Spy microphone BackDoor jammer

50 Jamming performance Spy microphone BackDoor jammer

51 Jamming performance Spy microphone BackDoor jammer

52 Jamming performance Spy microphone BackDoor jammer

53 Jamming performance Spy microphone BackDoor jammer

54 Jamming performance 2000 spoken words Jammed recording BackDoor jammer

55 Jamming performance 2000 spoken words Jammed recording BackDoor jammer Human listener Speech recognition

56 Jamming performance 2000 spoken words Jammed recording BackDoor jammer % of legible words Human listener Speech recognition

57 Jamming distance Jamming performance 100 Human users Legibility of words (%) Automatic speech recognition

58 Jamming performance

59 Takeaways Specially designed inaudible sound can be recorded with unmodified microphone It can make acoustic jammer possible and also can be a communication channel It also uncovers threats like acoustic Denial-of-Service attacks

60 Thank You SyNRG group website:

61

62 Jamming distance Jamming performance 100 Human users Legibility of words (%) Automatic speech recognition

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