Extract, Emulate and Exploit ARM IoT in this exclusive 2020 Preview
The world of ARM IoT devices is growing rapidly. Routers, IP cameras, Network video recorders, VoIP systems and several other “smart” appliances are now running on ARM SoCs. While the hardware is the latest and greatest, the software running on it is a different story.
The ARM IoT Firmware Laboratory is a brand new class, beginning where the ARM IoT Exploit Laboratory left off. This class takes a closer look at the hardware and the firmware running on it. Learn how to extract firmware from IoT hardware, accurately emulate it with the Saumil’s latest unreleased ARM-X framework and cover new hardware targets including Network video recorders, IP cameras, routers and more.
This 4-day course takes place at the Novotel London West, Hammersmith from the 2nd – 5th of December, 2019.
Who Should Take This Course
- Students wanting to learn ARM exploitation.
- Technical staff responsible for IoT security.
- Penetration testers wanting to learn how to exploit IoT.
“Extract, Emulate and Exploit IoT at scale with this course”
Going Beyond The ARM IoT Exploit Lab With An Exclusive 2020 Preview
This class takes a closer look at the hardware and the firmware running on IoT. Students shall learn how to analyse, emulate and exploit the firmware on a variety of ARM IoT devices. The class starts with extracting the firmware directly from the devices, moves on to creating an emulated test environment for fuzzing and debugging, and writing end to end exploits for the devices. The class shall feature an array of hardware targets of varying complexity. Students shall have ample time for hands on exercises to sharpen their exploitation skills. Students will be provided with all the lab images used in the class. The ARM IoT Exploit Laboratory uses a “Live Notes” system that provides a running transcript of the instructor’s system to all the students. Our lab environment, plus about 800MB of curated reading material, will be made available to all attendees to take with them and continue learning after the training ends. New For 2020:
- Hardware level firmware extraction from IoT devices.
- ARM-X: A new firmware emulation framework for accurate emulation of IoT devices, including nvram.
- New hardware targets: Network video recorders, multiple IP cameras, multiple routers, and more.
Pre-requisites:
- A conceptual understanding of how functions work in C programming
- Knowledge of how a stack works, basic stack operations
- Familiarity with debuggers (gdb, WinDBG, OllyDBG or equivalent)
- Not be allergic to command line tools.
- Have a working knowledge of shell scripts, cmd scripts or Perl.
- If none of the above apply, then enough patience to go through the pre-class tutorials.
- Skill Level: Intermediate (leaning towards advanced)
What You’ll Learn
- Understanding what’s under the hood – circuit boards, pins, interfaces and flash chips
- Hardware-level firmware extraction over UART and flash memory
- Emulating IoT Hardware, including nvram and library patching
- Emulation workarounds for missing components
- Real-world practical ARM exploitation tools and techniques
- ARM ROP Exploit mastery
- Bypassing ARM exploitation restrictions and constraints
Course Outline
Day 1 – Reversing ARM-based IoT
- ARM architecture and assembly language intro.
- Learn ARM assembly by compiling and reverse engineering binaries.
- Using GDB for debugging ARM ELF binaries.
- An introduction to ARM IoT devices.
- Lunch
- Under the hood – a tour of the circuit boards, pins, interfaces and flash chips.
- Obtaining the firmware via UART console.
- Obtaining the firmware using an EEPROM programmer device, directly from the memory.
- Unpacking the firmware and static analysis.
- Bug hunting via static reverse engineering and decompilation.
Day 2 – Emulating IoT Devices
- Introducting the ARM-X Firmware Emulation Framework.
- How to emulate an IoT device in ARM-X.
- Matching the device – choosing the right CPU to emulate.
- Matching the device – compiling a custom kernel.
- Emulating a home router in ARM-X.
- Lunch
- Filling in the blanks – dealing with missing hardware in the emulator.
- Working with nvram.
- Emulate an IP camera in ARM-X.
- Complexities in emulation – hotpatching and hooking functions.
- Emulate a compilcated IoT device.
Day 3 – Attacking and Exploiting IoT
- Debugging the emulated IoT device.
- Dynamic tracing of the emulated IoT device.
- Bug hunting by fuzzing.
- Bug hunting by reverse engineering.
- Writing exploits for the bugs discovered.
- Writing customised ARM shellcode.
- Lunch
- Bypassing exploit mitigation technologies – DEP and ASLR.
- Practical ARM ROP chains.
- Attacking the actual hardware.
- Overcoming cache coherency issues.
Day 4 – Advanced Exploitation
- Overcoming limitations in the exploit payloads – size, bad characters and encodings.
- Three hardware targets to emulate and exploit.
- Lunch
- Bonus challenges for those hungry for more.
What To Bring
- A Laptop with 8GB of RAM, i3, wifi, appropriate dongles and 40GB of Free hard disk space
- Administrator access to aforementioned laptop
- VMWare Player/Workstation/Fusion – not Virtualbox
What Students Are Provided With
- Copies of all lab images used in class
- Running Live Notes training transcription
- 800MB of Curated reading material to continue learning
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