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Practical Hardware Pentesting

By : Jean-Georges Valle
Book Image

Practical Hardware Pentesting

By: Jean-Georges Valle

Overview of this book

If you’re looking for hands-on introduction to pentesting that delivers, then Practical Hardware Pentesting is for you. This book will help you plan attacks, hack your embedded devices, and secure the hardware infrastructure. Throughout the book, you will see how a specific device works, explore the functional and security aspects, and learn how a system senses and communicates with the outside world. You’ll set up a lab from scratch and then gradually work towards an advanced hardware lab—but you’ll still be able to follow along with a basic setup. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with the global architecture of an embedded system and sniff on-board traffic, learn how to identify and formalize threats to the embedded system, and understand its relationship with its ecosystem. You’ll discover how to analyze your hardware and locate its possible system vulnerabilities before going on to explore firmware dumping, analysis, and exploitation. The reverse engineering chapter will get you thinking from an attacker point of view; you’ll understand how devices are attacked, how they are compromised, and how you can harden a device against the most common hardware attack vectors. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with security best practices and understand how they can be implemented to secure your hardware.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Know the Hardware
6
Section 2: Attacking the Hardware
12
Section 3: Attacking the Software

Chapter 7

  1. dd.
  2. Uses a file as a block device.
  3. Because modules are only loaded if they are needed. You can manually load them with modprobe if they are not loaded automatically.
  4. eUSB is embedded USB. It is like a normal USB but the connector is different; it is a 2.54 mm pitch female connector. You can just strip a normal USB cable, add pins to the wires, connect D+, D- , +5 V, and ground, and connect it to a normal computer.
  5. It is a multimedia card. It is possible to desolder the chip from the PCB, clean it, and use a clamshell adapter to read it from a normal computer.
  6. FUSE is the "filesystem in userspace." It is a bridge between the kernel space (highly privileged, direct access to the hardware) and the user space (less privileged, access to the hardware mediated through the kernel). It is dedicated to implementing filesystems in a less-privileged area (for example, to comply with licensing constraints, refer to the history of ntfs-3g and zfs on...