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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify vulnerabilities and secure your smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280571
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Guzman Aaron Guzman
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. IoT Penetration Testing 2. IoT Threat Modeling FREE CHAPTER 3. Analyzing and Exploiting Firmware 4. Exploitation of Embedded Web Applications 5. Exploiting IoT Mobile Applications 6. IoT Device Hacking 7. Radio Hacking 8. Firmware Security Best Practices 9. Mobile Security Best Practices 10. Securing Hardware 11. Advanced IoT Exploitation and Security Automation

Analyzing firmware


Once we have the firmware with us, the main step now is to analyze the firmware. This involves looking inside the firmware and trying to identify as many security issues possible, which is what we will be doing in this section.

Getting ready

In this section, we will understand how to analyze firmware once we have access to the firmware binary package. There exist several different techniques in which we can look at firmware and identify security issues in it and we will be covering how to get started and identifying some common security issues in this section.

As mentioned earlier, firmware holds many interesting things for a pen tester, including API keys, private certificates, hardcoded credentials, backdoors, and more.

How to do it...

To analyze firmware, we will have to reverse engineer it to look at its internal components. The internal components of firmware involve things such as bootloader, kernel, filesystem, and additional resources. Out of these, we are most interested...

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