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MIFARE Classic Tool on Windows Pc

Developed By: IKARUS Projects

License: Free

Rating: 4,7/5 - 2.256 votes

Last Updated: April 17, 2024

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 4.2.2
Size 3.8 MB
Release Date March 07, 24
Category Tools Apps

App Permissions:
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC. [see more (1)]

What's New:
Version 4.2.2: * Fixed crash when opening the preferences using Chinese language.Version 4.2.1: * Added Russian translation (Thanks to "IIIef"). *... [see more]

Description from Developer:
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 technol... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download MIFARE Classic Tool and install on Windows PC. MIFARE Classic Tool is free Tools app, developed by IKARUS Projects. Latest version of MIFARE Classic Tool is 4.2.2, was released on 2024-03-07 (updated on 2024-04-17). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000,000. Overall rating of MIFARE Classic Tool is 4,7. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 2,256 users, 65 users had rated it 5*, 1,871 users had rated it 1*.

How to install MIFARE Classic Tool on Windows?

Instruction on how to install MIFARE Classic Tool on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install MIFARE Classic Tool on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Install MIFARE Classic Tool using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "MIFARE Classic Tool" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install MIFARE Classic Tool on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "MIFARE Classic Tool" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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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.
Version 4.2.2:
* Fixed crash when opening the preferences using
Chinese language.

Version 4.2.1:
* Added Russian translation (Thanks to "IIIef").
* Added Portuguese translation (Thanks to "YaBa").
* Fixed crash on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
(Thanks to Eduardo Speroni).
* Fixed some crashes related to Android 14.

Full changelog: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ikarus23/MifareClassicTool/master/CHANGELOG.txt
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.