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Oct 17, 2023
Software Tools / Analysis Tools
- cwe_checker (⭐957) - Finds vulnerable patterns in binary executables - ELF support for x86, ARM, and MIPS, experimental bare-metal support.
May 26, 2023
Websites / YouTube Channels
- Flashback Team - A duo of hackers explaining their step by step approach to finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in embedded devices.
- StackSmashing - Reverse engineering and hardware hacking of embedded devices.
Dec 29, 2020
Software Tools / Analysis Tools
- emba (⭐2.1k) - Analyze Linux-based firmware of embedded devices.
Oct 06, 2020
Software Tools / Analysis Tools
- Binwalk (⭐9.7k) - Searches a binary for "interesting" stuff, as well as extracts arbitrary files.
Conferences / YouTube Channels
- Hardwear.io
- EU, The Hague, September.
- USA, Santa Clara, June.
Oct 05, 2020
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2020, Oser et al: SAFER: Development and Evaluation of an IoT Device Risk Assessment Framework in a Multinational Organization
May 06, 2020
Hardware Tools / SDR Tools
- RTL-SDR - Cheapest SDR for beginners. It is a computer based radio scanner for receiving live radio signals frequencies from 500 kHz up to 1.75 GHz.
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2019, Agarwal et al: Detecting IoT Devices and How They Put Large Heterogeneous Networks at Security Risk
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools
Websites / Blogs
May 05, 2020
Software Tools / Analysis Frameworks
- HomePWN (⭐787) - Swiss Army Knife for Pentesting of IoT Devices.
Software Tools / Misc Tools
- Cotopaxi (⭐334) - Set of tools for security testing of Internet of Things devices using specific network IoT protocols.
- dumpflash (⭐264) - Low-level NAND Flash dump and parsing utility.
- flashrom (⭐731) - Tool for detecting, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips.
- Samsung Firmware Magic (⭐191) - Decrypt Samsung SSD firmware updates.
Hardware Tools / Misc Tools
- HydraBus - Open source multi-tool hardware similar to the BusPirate but with NFC capabilities.
- Glasgow (⭐1.8k) - Tool for exploring and debugging different digital interfaces.
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2020, Fotios Chantzis, Evangel Deirme, Ioannis Stais, Paulino Calderon, Beau Woods: Practical IoT Hacking
- 2018, Qing Yang, Lin Huang Inside Radio: An Attack and Defense Guide
- 2015, Joshua Wright , Johnny Cache: Hacking Wireless Exposed
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2014, Costin et al: A Large-Scale Analysis of the Security of Embedded Firmwares
Websites / RFID NFC Tools
- OWASP Internet of Things Project - IoT common vulnerabilities and attack surfaces.
May 04, 2020
Hardware Tools / ZigBee Tools
- Atmel RZUSBstick - Discontinued product. Lucky if you have one! - Tool for development, debugging and demonstration of a wide range of low power wireless applications including IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, and ZigBee networks. Killerbee compatible.
Hardware Tools / SDR Tools
- HackRF One - Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 1 MHz to 6 GHz (half-duplex).
Hardware Tools / RFID NFC Tools
- Proxmark 3 RDV4 - Powerful general purpose RFID tool. From Low Frequency (125kHz) to High Frequency (13.56MHz) tags.
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2015, Keng Tiong Ng: The Art of PCB Reverse Engineering
May 03, 2020
Hardware Tools / Misc Tools
- Shikra - Detects and interacts with hardware debug ports like UART and JTAG. Among other protocols.
Hardware Tools / Bluetooth BLE Tools
- UberTooth One - Open source 2.4 GHz wireless development platform suitable for Bluetooth experimentation.
- Bluefruit LE Sniffer - Easy to use Bluetooth Low Energy sniffer.
Hardware Tools / ZigBee Tools
- ApiMote - ZigBee security research hardware for learning about and evaluating the security of IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee systems. Killerbee compatible.
- Freakduino - Low Cost Battery Operated Wireless Arduino Board that can be turned into a IEEE 802.15.4 protocol sniffer.
Hardware Tools / SDR Tools
- YardStick One - Half-duplex sub-1 GHz wireless transceiver.
- LimeSDR - Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 100 KHz to 3.8 GHz (full-duplex).
- BladeRF 2.0 - Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 47 MHz to 6 GHz (full-duplex).
- USRP B Series - Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 70 MHz to 6 GHz (full-duplex).
Hardware Tools / RFID NFC Tools
- ChamaleonMini - Programmable, portable tool for NFC security analysis.
- HydraNFC - Powerful 13.56MHz RFID / NFC platform. Read / write / crack / sniff / emulate.
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2020, Jasper van Woudenberg, Colin O'Flynn: The Hardware Hacking Handbook: Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks
- 2018, Mark Carney: Pentesting Hardware - A Practical Handbook (DRAFT) (⭐486)
Websites / Blogs
Apr 14, 2020
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools
Websites / Tutorials and Technical Background
- Azeria Lab - Miscellaneous ARM related Tutorials.
- JTAG Explained - A walkthrough covering UART and JTAG bypassing a protected login shell.
- Reverse Engineering Serial Ports - Detailed tutorial about how to spot debug pads on a PCB.
- UART explained - An in depth explanation of the UART protocol.
Apr 11, 2020
Websites / Blogs
Apr 09, 2020
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2015, Shoshitaishvili et al:Firmalice - Automatic Detection of Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities in Binary Firmware
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools
- Hacking the PS4 - Introduction to PS4's security.
Websites / RFID NFC Tools
- OWASP Embedded Application Security Project - Development best practices and list of hardware and software tools.
- Siliconpr0n - A Wiki/Archive of all things IC reversing.
Mar 31, 2020
Software Tools / Analysis Frameworks
- HAL – The Hardware Analyzer (⭐480) - A comprehensive reverse engineering and manipulation framework for gate-level netlists.
- IoTSecFuzz - Framework for automatisation of IoT layers security analysis: hardware, software and communication.
- Killerbee (⭐707) - Framework for Testing & Auditing ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 Networks.
- PRET (⭐3.6k) - Printer Exploitation Toolkit.
- Routersploit (⭐11k) - Framework dedicated to exploit embedded devices.
Software Tools / Analysis Tools
- Firmwalker (⭐942) - Searches extracted firmware images for interesting files and information.
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2017, Aditya Gupta, Aaron Guzman: IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2019, Almakhdhub et al: BenchIoT: A Security Benchmark for the Internet of Things
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools
Free Training / RFID NFC Tools
- CSAW Embedded Security Challenge 2019 (⭐33) - CSAW 2019 Embedded Security Challenge (ESC).
- Embedded Security CTF - Microcorruption: Embedded Security CTF.
- Rhme-2016 (⭐286) - Riscure Hack me 2 is a low level hardware CTF challenge.
- Rhme-2017/2018 (⭐84) - Riscure Hack Me 3 embedded hardware CTF 2017-2018.
Websites / RFID NFC Tools
- Hacking Printers Wiki - All things printer.
- Router Passwords - Default login credential database sorted by manufacturer.
Websites / Blogs
Feb 12, 2020
Hardware Tools / Misc Tools
- ChipWhisperer - Detects Glitch/Side-channel attacks.
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2019, Yago Hansen: The Hacker's Hardware Toolkit: The best collection of hardware gadgets for Red Team hackers, Pentesters and security researchers (⭐2k)
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2016, Kammerstetter et al: Embedded Security Testing with Peripheral Device Caching and Runtime Program State Approximation
Dec 19, 2019
Software Tools / Analysis Frameworks
- FACT - The Firmware Analysis and Comparison Tool - Full-featured static analysis framework including extraction of firmware, analysis utilizing different plug-ins and comparison of different firmware versions.
- Improving your firmware security analysis process with FACT - Conference talk about FACT 📺.
Dec 18, 2019
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2019, Alrawi et al: SoK: Security Evaluation of Home-Based IoT Deployments
- 2019, Abbasi et al: Challenges in Designing Exploit Mitigations for Deeply Embedded Systems
- 2019, Song et al: PeriScope: An Effective Probing and Fuzzing Framework for the Hardware-OS Boundary
- 2014, Zaddach et al: Avatar: A Framework to Support Dynamic Security Analysis of Embedded Systems' Firmwares
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools
- Deadly Sins Of Development - Conference talk presenting several real world examples on real bad implementations 📺.
Aug 26, 2019
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools
Aug 16, 2019
Software Tools / Analysis Frameworks
- FwAnalyzer (⭐474) - Analyze security of firmware based on customized rules. Intended as additional step in DevSecOps, similar to CI.
Software Tools / Analysis Tools
- Firmware Slap (⭐462) - Discovering vulnerabilities in firmware through concolic analysis and function clustering.
- Radare2 (⭐19k) - Software Reverse Engineering framework, also handles popular formats and arbitrary binaries, has an extensive command line toolset.
Aug 15, 2019
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2017, O'Meara et al: Embedded Device Vulnerability Analysis Case Study Using Trommel
Aug 08, 2019
Software Tools / Extraction Tools
- The SRecord package - Collection of tools for manipulating EPROM files (can convert lots of binary formats).
Software Tools / Support Tools
- JTAGenum (⭐625) - Add JTAG capabilities to an Arduino.
- OpenOCD - Free and Open On-Chip Debugging, In-System Programming and Boundary-Scan Testing.
Hardware Tools / Misc Tools
- Saleae - Easy to use Logic Analyzer that support many protocols 💶.
- Ikalogic - Alternative to Saleae logic analyzers 💶.
- J-Link - J-Link offers USB powered JTAG debug probes for multiple different CPU cores 💶.
Free Training / RFID NFC Tools
- Hardware Hacking 101 (⭐37) - Workshop @ BSides Munich 2019.
- IoTGoat (⭐177) - IoTGoat is a deliberately insecure firmware based on OpenWrt.
- Rhme-2015 (⭐105) - First riscure Hack me hardware CTF challenge.
Jul 31, 2019
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2018, Mark Swarup Tehranipoor: Hardware Security: A Hands-on Learning Approach
- 2017, Andrew Huang: The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
- 2016, Craig Smith: The Car Hacker's Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
- 2015, Nitesh Dhanjan: Abusing the Internet of Things: Blackouts, Freakouts, and Stakeouts
- 2014, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay: Hardware Security: Design, Threats, and Safeguards
- 2014, Jack Ganssle: The Firmware Handbook (Embedded Technology)
Jul 30, 2019
Software Tools / Analysis Tools
- Ghidra - Software Reverse Engineering suite; handles arbitrary binaries, if you provide CPU architecture and endianness of the binary.
Hardware Tools / Misc Tools
- Bus Blaster - Detects and interacts with hardware debug ports like UART and JTAG.
- JTAGULATOR - Detects JTAG Pinouts fast.
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2013, Andrew Huang: Hacking the XBOX
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools
Jul 29, 2019
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2017, Jacob et al: How to Break Secure Boot on FPGA SoCs through Malicious Hardware
Jul 26, 2019
Software Tools / Analysis Frameworks
- EXPLIoT - Pentest framework like Metasploit but specialized for IoT.
Software Tools / Analysis Tools
- Firmadyne (⭐1.7k) - Tries to emulate and pentest a firmware.
- Trommel (⭐198) - Searches extracted firmware images for interesting files and information.
Software Tools / Extraction Tools
- FACT Extractor (⭐68) - Detects container format automatically and executes the corresponding extraction tool.
- Firmware Mod Kit (⭐726) - Extraction tools for several container formats.
Hardware Tools / Misc Tools
- Bus Pirate - Detects and interacts with hardware debug ports like UART and JTAG.
Books / RFID NFC Tools
- 2019, Aditya Gupta: The IoT Hacker's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Hacking the Internet of Things
Research Papers / RFID NFC Tools
- 2018, Muench et al: What You Corrupt Is Not What You Crash: Challenges in Fuzzing Embedded Devices
- 2017, Costin et al: Towards Automated Classification of Firmware Images and Identification of Embedded Devices
- 2016, Chen et al: Towards Automated Dynamic Analysis for Linux-based Embedded Firmware
- 2016, Costin et al: Automated Dynamic Firmware Analysis at Scale: A Case Study on Embedded Web Interfaces
- 2015, Papp et al: Embedded Systems Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Attack Taxonomy
- 2014, Alimi et al: Analysis of embedded applications by evolutionary fuzzing
- 2013, Davidson et al: FIE on Firmware: Finding Vulnerabilities in Embedded Systems using Symbolic Execution
Case Studies / RFID NFC Tools