What this book covers
Chapter 1, Setting Up Your Pentesting Lab and Ensuring Lab Safety, will go through what hardware to buy and when, how to arrange your lab and how to keep yourself safe.
Chapter 2, Understanding Your Target, explains how to understand the functionality of a system, and how to reverse engineer an embedded system.
Chapter 3, Identifying the Components of Your Target, will help understand how to identify chips and their relationships.
Chapter 4, Approaching and Planning the Test, will show how to identify the risk scenarios and threats to a target system and how to organize the test
Chapter 5, Our Main Attack Platform, will go over the microcontroller platform we will use to attack the target systems, and will demonstrate the usage of common hardware protocols
Chapter 6, Sniffing and Attacking the Most Common Protocols, covers the most common hardware protocols and how to attack them
Chapter 7, Extracting and Manipulating Onboard Storage, covers the different hardware formats used to store information and how to extract and manipulate them
Chapter 8, Attacking Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and BLE, covers the most common forms of wireless communication and how to attack them
Chapter 9, Software-Defined Radio Attacks, introduces you to software-defined radio and how to intercept and attack proprietary wireless communications
Chapter 10, Accessing the Debug Interfaces, introduces you to hardware-specific debugging protocols and how to exploit them in order to attack embedded systems
Chapter 11, Static Reverse Engineering and Analysis, introduces you to binary reverse engineering tools and methodology in order to understand and attack the firmware that runs on your target system.
Chapter 12, Dynamic Reverse Engineering, leverages the two previous chapters to show you how to interact and attack firmware while it is running on the target system.
Chapter 13, Scoring and Reporting Your Vulnerabilities, teaches you how to report the problems you have found on the target system to your clients.
Chapter 14, Wrapping It Up – Mitigations and Good Practices, orients you towards the solutions that can be given to your clients in order to solve the problems you have found.