Presented By: Saumil Shah
ARM has emerged as the leading architecture in the Internet of Things (IoT) world. The all new ARM IoT Exploit Laboratory is a 3-day intermediate level class intended for students who want to take their exploit writing skills to the ARM platform. The class covers everything from an introduction to ARM assembly all the way to Return Oriented Programming (ROP) on ARM architectures. Our lab environment features hardware and virtual platforms for exploring exploit writing on ARM based Linux systems and IoT devices.
The class concludes with an end-to-end “Firmware-To-Shell” hack, where we extract the firmware from a popular SoHo router and an IP Camera, build a virtual environments to emulate and debug them, and then build exploits to gain a shell on the actual hardware devices.
The 3 day course will take place on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September 2019 at the Novotel London West
Cost is £ 1,950 (inc VAT). Buy your place in our shop now.
Learning Objectives
- Introduction to the ARM CPU architecture
- Exploring ARM assembly language
- Understanding how functions work in ARM
- Debugging on ARM systems
- Exploiting Stack Overflows on ARM
- Writing ARM Shellcode from the ground up
- Introduction to Return Oriented Programming
- Bypassing exploit mitigation using ROP
- Practical ARM ROP
- An Introduction to extracting firmware from devices
- Emulating and debugging a SoHo router’s firmware in a virtual environment
- “Firmware-To-Shell” – exploiting an actual SoHo router
- “Firmware-To-Shell” – exploiting an actual IP camera
- The Lab environment is a mixture of physical ARM hardware and ARM virtual machines.
Course Outline
Day 1:
- Introduction to the ARM CPU architecture
- Exploring ARM assembly language
- EXERCISE – Examples in ARM Assembly Language
- Debugging on ARM systems
- Understanding how functions work in ARM
- Exploiting Stack Overflows on ARM
- EXERCISE – ARM Stack Overflows
Day 2:
- Writing ARM Shellcode from the ground up
- EXERCISE – Embedded Web Server exploit
- Introduction to Exploit Mitigation Techniques (XN/DEP and ASLR)
- Introduction to ARM Return Oriented Programming
- Bypassing exploit mitigation on ARM using ROP
- ARM ROP Tools
- EXERCISE – Searching for ARM ROP Gadgets
Day 3:
- Practical ROP Chains on ARM
- EXERCISE – Exploit featuring ARM ROP Chains
- Bypassing ASLR
- An Introduction to firmware extracting
- Discovering an IoT devices’ serial pins and extracting actual firmware via serial console
- Emulating and debugging a SoHo router’s firmware in a virtual environment
- EXERCISE – Attacking a DLINK DIR-880L ARM Router – from firmware to shell
- EXERCISE – Attacking a Trivision ARM IP Camera – from firmware to shellTarget Audience
Target Audience
- Past x86 Exploit laboratory students who want to take their elite exploitation skills to the ARM platform.
- Pentesters working on ARM embedded environments. (SoCs, IoT, etc)
- Red Team members, who want to pen-test custom binaries and exploit custom built applications.
- Bug Hunters, who want to write exploits for all the crashes they find.
- Members of military or government cyberwarfare units.
- Members of reverse engineering research teams.
- People frustrated at software to the point they want to break it!
Student Requirements
- 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 or Python.
- If none of the above apply, then enough patience to go through the pre-class tutorials.
- SKILL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE (leaning towards advanced)
Pre-Class Tutorials:
The following tutorials have been specially prepared to get students up to speed on essential concepts before coming to class.
a) Operating Systems – A Primer
http://www.slideshare.net/saumilshah/operating-systems-a-primer
b) How Functions Work
http://www.slideshare.net/saumilshah/how-functions-work-7776073
c) Introduction to Debuggers
http://www.slideshare.net/saumilshah/introduction-to-debuggers
What to Bring
- A working laptop (no Netbooks, no Tablets, no iPads)
- Intel Core i3 (equivalent or superior) required
- 8GB RAM required, at a minimum
- Wireless network card
- 40 GB free Hard disk space
- If you’re using a new Macbook or Macbook Pro, please bring your dongle-kit!
Software Requirements
- Linux / Windows / Mac OS X desktop operating systems
- VMWare Player / VMWare Workstation / VMWare Fusion MANDATORY
- Administrator / root access MANDATORY
Students will be provided with
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.
About the Trainer
Lead Instruction – Saumil Shah @therealsaumil
Saumil Shah is the founder and CEO of Net-Square, providing cutting edge information security services to clients around the globe. Saumil is an internationally recognised speaker and instructor, having regularly presented at conferences like Blackhat, RSA, CanSecWest, PacSec, EUSecWest, Hack.lu, Hack-in-the-box and others. He has authored two books titled “Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense” and “The Anti-Virus Book”.
Saumil graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University. He spends his leisure time breaking software, flying kites, traveling around the world and taking pictures.
Instructor’s Contact Info:
Saumil Udayan Shah
CEO, Net-Square Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Twitter: @therealsaumil