You're reading from Practical Hardware Pentesting A guide to attacking embedded systems and protecting them against the most common hardware attacks

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789619133

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Embedded Systems

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Author (1):

Jean-Georges Valle

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting to Know the Hardware

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Pentesting Lab and Ensuring Lab Safety FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Your Target

4. Chapter 3: Identifying the Components of Your Target

5. Chapter 4: Approaching and Planning the Test

6. Section 2: Attacking the Hardware

7. Chapter 5: Our Main Attack Platform

8. Chapter 6: Sniffing and Attacking the Most Common Protocols

9. Chapter 7: Extracting and Manipulating Onboard Storage

10. Chapter 8: Attacking Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and BLE

11. Chapter 9: Software-Defined Radio Attacks

12. Section 3: Attacking the Software

13. Chapter 10: Accessing the Debug Interfaces

14. Chapter 11: Static Reverse Engineering and Analysis

15. Chapter 12: Dynamic Reverse Engineering

16. Chapter 13: Scoring and Reporting Your Vulnerabilities

17. Chapter 14: Wrapping It Up – Mitigations and Good Practices

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sending it back

If your hardware supports it, you can record a sample file with a file sink. This can easily be played back using your device as a sink instead of a source (file source -> Osmocom sink GNU Radio block for hackrf, for example). Just be sure that you are keeping the same sampling rate! You can also create modulated signals from Python (or any programming language) to send arbitrary signals.

Before sending anything, be sure to check the following:

Check that it is legal in your country depending on the frequency (on 2.4 GHz, it is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band) if you respect the on-air time).
That you are not disturbing other receivers around you. Be very wary of the strength of the signal you are sending!
You can use a Faraday cage (a metallic container to isolate radio signals) for most of your tests by using a discarded microwave (for 2.4 GHz) or find/build one yourself for cheap (ammo cans, a big metallic paint pot with a few holes for the...