dmon (Device Monitor)

👷 🔨 Work in progress 🚧 🚦

dmon is a monitor solution for jailbroken iOS devices. This project's core goal is to ensure a specific iOS application is constantly running without needing to use Single App Mode (SAM) or Guided Access Mode (GAM).

A script is included to help with the initial configuration of a jailbroken device: ./bin/setup

Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• Getting started
• Testing
• Commonly asked questions
  • Why didn't you use Theos to build the deb
  • How do I stop it?
  • How do I set up the webserver?
  • Why did you reuse the existing config.json?
  • Why didn't you include the debs I need
  • Why is my https url not working?
• References

Prerequisites

• A Mac

• A jailbroken iPhone

• Apple Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install)

• imobiledevice tools (brew install libimobiledevice)

• Optional but highly recommend creating a ssh keypair

• Setup your ssh config entry. Life is much easier when your ssh sessions are remembered.

  cat ~/.ssh/config
  Host iphone localhost
    HostName localhost
    User root
    Port 2222
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
    #IdentityFile ~/.ssh/main.pub
  
  Host *
    ControlMaster auto
    ControlPath /tmp/%r@%h:%p
    ControlPersist 1800

Getting started

It is assumed you know your way around a command line. Commands are ran on your computer connected to a single iOS device.

1. Grab a valid iOS 14+ device and jailbreak it: https://ios.cfw.guide/get-started/select-iphone/

2. Clone this git repo.

   git clone https://github.com/clburlison/dmon

3. Change directory into the freshly cloned repo.

   cd dmon

4. Create a config.json at the root of this repo with the correct values.

   Make sure to remove all // comments before saving. They are not valid JSON!

   {
     "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
     "device_configuration_manager_url": "https://YOUR_AWESOME_DCM_URL",
     "dmon_url": "https://YOUR_URL:PORT/path/", // Url to download update files from. Leave empty if you don't want to use the update function.
     "dmon_username": "username", // Basic Auth username. Leave empty if not used
     "dmon_password": "password" // Basic Auth password. Leave empty if not used
   }

5. Download any extra .deb files you want installed into the ./debs/ directory.

   debs to include:

   • https://apt.bingner.com/debs/1443.00/com.ex.substitute_2.3.1_iphoneos-arm.deb
   • https://apt.bingner.com/debs/1443.00/com.saurik.substrate.safemode_0.9.6005_iphoneos-arm.deb
   • https://repo.spooferpro.com/debs/com.spooferpro.kernbypass_1.1.0_iphoneos-arm64.deb
   • https://github.com/clburlison/dmon/releases
   • (Optional - Required for pogo.ipa updates) https://cydia.akemi.ai/debs/nodelete-ai.akemi.appsyncunified.deb
   • (Optional - Required for pogo.ipa updates) https://cydia.akemi.ai/debs/nodelete-ai.akemi.appinst.deb
   • Potentially any paid/private debs. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink

6. Grab a copy of Pokemon Go via majd/ipatool.

   brew tap majd/repo
   brew install ipatool
   ipatool auth login -e '[email protected]' -p 'PASSWORD'
   ipatool download --purchase -b com.nianticlabs.pokemongo -o pogo.ipa

7. Connect your iOS device to your computer via USB.

8. Open Terminal.app and run (remember only to have one phone connected).

   # Alteratively you can pass -u <device-uuid> if multiple phones are connected
   iproxy 2222 22

9. Then, in a separate terminal window, run:

   ssh root@localhost -p 2222 # default password is 'alpine'
   # Now disconnect with: Control + d

10. Now run:

    ./bin/setup
    # If you want to setup passwordless ssh then pass the argument with the path to your public key
    ./bin/setup -s ~/.ssh/main.pub

11. Assuming everything worked correctly, your phone is now properly configured.

Bonus items that are out of scope for this project.

• Configure your device as supervised and push a wireless mobileconfig profile
• Configure your device to use Shared Internet from your Mac
• Supervise your device and push a global proxy to route requests through HAproxy

Testing

• All testing has been completed with iOS 15 using palera1n
• Only confirmed on older A9 processors, aka iPhone SE first gen
• DEB Package is built on macOS Ventura

Commonly asked questions

Why didn't you use Theos to build the deb?

I was expecting to add a few external compiled binaries and wanted to avoid reading the documentation. But, unfortunately, things changed, and I don't want to rewrite it.

How can I stop it?!?!

1. Close Pokemon Go on the phone

2. ssh into the phone & unload the launch daemon

   ssh iphone
   /usr/bin/launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.github.clburlison.dmon.plist

How do I set up the webserver?

It is a flat structure. You can use Nginx, Apache, Caddy, Python, NodeJS, etc. Your files should be named:

top_level_folder
├── gc.deb
├── pogo.ipa
└── version.txt

Your version.txt file should have the following text. Update the versions to match what is currently released.

gc: 2.0.248
pogo: 0.265.0

Then in your config, point dmon_url to http://HOSTNAME:PORT/top_level_folder.

Why did you reuse the existing config.json?

I was lazy and figured this would make it easier for you. Now bugger off.

Why didn't you include the debs I need?

I don't have the original author's permission to upload their files.

Why is my https url not working?

dmon is using the stock CA Certificates installed as part of the iOS jailbreak. The Procursus Team placed files in /usr/lib/ssl/cacert.pem and I figured it would be safe to keep using them. Those root certs might have expired and need an update if you are running into an issue.

References

• dm.pl
• theos
• appknox/Open which was originally from conradev/Open