PS4JbEmU

Local PS4 Jailbreak Host with USB emulation

This project is aimed at setting up a local web host, with USB emulation, on select Raspberry Pi boards that can be used to exploit and jailbreak PS4 consoles running firmware version 9.00. Raspberry Pi Zero W / Pi Zero 2 W / Pi4 B are eligible boards as they support a USB on-the-go (OTG) gadget mode and eliminate the need to manually insert and remove the USB stick required in the exploit process. This project is implemented on a clean Raspberry Pi OS (Debian) install which makes it easier to repurpose the Pi to run additional applications and services on it.
Developed and Tested on Raspberry Pi 4 B but should work on Pi Zero W / Pi Zero 2 W / Pi4 B

Benefits

Clean Raspberry Pi OS install - easy to setup the Pi for other purposes as you desire
Easily update exploit, GoldHen and payload files from the web interface
One device for local web server and USB emulation
One USB cable is sufficient to power the Pi and emulate USB
You can leave the Pi permanently connected to the PS4. No need not to remove and plug in a USB stick to run explolit

Setup - Easy Method

Write the image provided in the releases to an SD card (using program like Pi Imager or Rufus)
Insert the SD card into the Raspberry Pi
For Pi Zero W & Pi Zero 2W, connect the USB marked Pi USB port to PS4. Be sure to use a cable that supports data transfer
For Pi4 B, connect a USB C cable from Pi to PS4
Power up the PS4. This should also boot up your Pi
Use raspi-config to expand the filesystem to the capacity of your SD card
On the PS4 go to Browser and visit http://ip.address.of.your.pi/ps4
Click on the GoldHen button for the version you want to exploit with
a. A popup will be thrown saying USB emulation started and wait for ps4 pop up
b. Once the USB message disappears, Click ok
c. Gold Hen will load automatically
If you need SSH access, username is pi and password is ps4jb

Setup - Advanced Method

Install a clean Raspberry Pi OS image to an SD card (Developed and tested on Debian Bullseye)
Enable USB Gadget Mode on the Pi
a. Add dtoverlay=dwc2,dr_mode=peripheral to the [all] section inside /boot/config.txt
Prevent the Pi from automatically becoming a USB gadget on every boot
a. Add sudo /sbin/modprobe -r g_mass_storage to /etc/rc.local
Install and setup lighttpd and PHP
Configure /var/www/html/ps4 as the document root directory for the exploit app (via lighttpd configs)
Clone or download the source code from this repo
a. cd /home/pi
b. sudo git clone https://github.com/CrazeeGhost/PS4JbEmu.git
c. sudo git config --global --add safe.directory /home/pi/PS4JbEmu
Allow the webserver user to run some commands as root without password
a. Add www-data ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/modprobe, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/shutdown, /var/www/html/ps4/updateHost.sh to your sudoers file using the visudo command
Make the web app accessible to the webserver
a. sudo chmod 755 /home/pi/PS4JbEmu/updateHost.sh
b. sudo /home/pi/PS4JbEmu/updateHost.sh

Note: Update Host button on the web app will not work if you did not follow the directory strcture in the steps above

Credits