18 March 2014

Decoding pocorgtfo03.pdf with multimon-ng

Having had a read of pocorgtfo03.pdf (you can get it from here) and learning of its chameleon-like properties, I resolved to investigate the claim that "Treated as single-channel raw audio, 16-bit signed little-endian integer, at a sample rate of 22,050 Hz, it contains a 2400 baud AFSK transmission".

I'd already confirmed that the pdf looked like a JPG using the file command:

$ file  Downloads/pocorgtfo03.pdf
Downloads/pocorgtfo03.pdf: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, comment: ""
 I had a look at the file with baudline:


Sure enough the file seemed to show a modem signal at around 6 seconds in.  I remembered that multimon-hg could decode AFSK2400 and had a stab at decoding the tones with that:


$ multimon-ng -t raw -a AFSK2400  Downloads/pocorgtfo03.pdf -q
 POCSAG512 POCSAG1200 POCSAG2400 EAS UFSK1200 CLIPFSK AFSK1200 AFSK2400 AFSK2400_2 AFSK2400_3 HAPN4800 FSK9600 DTMF ZVEI1 ZVEI2 ZVEI3 DZVEI PZVEI EEA EIA CCIR MORSE_CW DUMPCSV SCOPE
AFSK2400: fm PASTOR-0 to APRS-0 via WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 UI  pid=F0
:EMAIL    :pastor@phrack.org I have POC to share.

Nice!

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