Explore embedded systems pentesting by applying the most common attack techniques and patterns
▶Book Description
Hardware pentesting involves leveraging hardware interfaces and communication channels to find vulnerabilities in a device. Practical Hardware Pentesting will help you to 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 will start by setting up your lab from scratch and then gradually work with an advanced hardware lab. The book will help you get to grips with the global architecture of an embedded system and sniff on-board traffic. You will also learn how to identify and formalize threats to the embedded system and understand its relationship with its ecosystem. Later, you will discover how to analyze your hardware and locate its possible system vulnerabilities before going on to explore firmware dumping, analysis, and exploitation. Finally, focusing on the reverse engineering process from an attacker point of view will allow you to 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.
▶What You Will Learn
-Perform an embedded system test and identify security critical functionalities
-Locate critical security components and buses and learn how to attack them Discover how to dump and modify stored information
-Understand and exploit the relationship between the firmware and hardware
-Identify and attack the security functions supported by the functional blocks of the device
-Develop an attack lab to support advanced device analysis and attacks
▶Key Features
-Learn various pentesting tools and techniques to attack and secure your hardware infrastructure
-Find the glitches in your hardware that can be a possible entry point for attacks
-Discover best practices for securely designing products
▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for security professionals and researchers who want to get started with hardware security assessment but don't know where to start. Electrical engineers who want to understand how their devices can be attacked and how to protect against these attacks will also find this book useful.
▶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.
