Applied Physical Attacks on Embedded Systems and IoT 2-Day Applied Physical Attacks on Embedded Systems and IoT

Date
26 November 2018 - 27 November 2018
Hosted by
Seaport Conference Center
Location
459 Seaport Ct, Redwood City, CA 94063
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Trainer
Joe Fitzpatrick
Language
English
Capacity
15

Course Description

This course introduces and explores attacks on several different relatively accessible interfaces on embedded systems. Attendees will get hands-on experience implementing and deploying a number of low-cost hardware devices to enable access, privilege, and deception which is in some cases imperceptible from software.

The course has several modules. Each begins with an architectural overview of an interface, and follows with a series of labs for hands-on practice understanding, observing, interacting with, and exploiting the interface, finishing with either potentially exploitable crashes or directly to root shells.

Depending on allotted time, topic interest, and class pace, not all topics will be covered completely, but all materials are included for reference and individual practice.

Targets

This course targets a MIPS-based network router, and multiple ARM-based mobile and IOT devices. Together they are representative of a wide range of embedded devices that span consumer electronics, medical devices, industrial control hardware, and mobile devices. While there are many shared concepts and tools, the content of Applied Physical Attacks on x86 Systems stands on its own and is more relevant to fully-featured desktops, servers, and laptops.

Audience

This course is geared toward pen testers, developers and others with a security background who wish to learn how to take advantage of physical access to systems to assist and enable other attacks. No hardware or electrical background is required. Computer architecture knowledge and low-level programming experience helpful but not required.

Format

  • 20% lecture
  • 70% Lab
  • 10% discussion

Course Outline

  1. UART
    • Background: UART History, Architecture, and Uses
    • UART Lab 1: Connecting to a known UART
    • UART Lab 2: Identifying and analyzing an unknown UART
    • UART Lab 3: Escalating and persisting UART privilege
  2. JTAG
    • Background: JTAG History and Purpose
    • JTAG Lab 1: Hardware and Software Setup
    • JTAG Lab 2: Escalating Privilege via Kernel
    • JTAG Lab 3: Escalating Privilege via a Process
  3. SPI
    • Background: Flash storage and the SPI interface
    • SPI Lab 1: Accessing Flash from software
    • SPI Lab 2: Sniffing and Parsing SPI
    • SPI Lab 3: Dumping SPI from Hardware
    • SPI Lab 4: Firmware Analysis
  4. Firmware
    • Background: More types of Flash, Storage, and Firmware
    • Firmware Lab 1: Dumping Firmware from Software
    • Firmware Lab 2: Manipulating firmware images
    • Firmware Lab 3: Finding software bugs in firmware

Registration

$2200 (until October 29th)
$2900 (after October 29th)
Cancellation requests by paid registrants must be made at least 45 days before the event and may be subject to an administration fee. In the event of course cancellation by the trainer, students may choose to attend an alternate course (space pending) or receive a full refund.

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