Overview

This one-day workshop teaches advanced techniques used to defeat the security features of microcontrollers meant to protect against unauthorized access. It is a hands-on environment where students will use a variety of hardware tools and real-world targets. Each section provides details of the microcontroller's code protection features and its corresponding attack methodology.

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Prerequisites

Joe Grand's Hardware Hacking Basics two-day training

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Course Outline

A. Microcontroller Security Overview

B. Fault Injection

  • Hands-on exercise: Extract program code from a protected NXP LPC1114 via voltage glitch using the ChipWhisperer-Lite

C. Register Manipulation

  • Hands-on exercise: Extract program code from a protected Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 microcontroller via register and program flow manipulation

D. Interrupt Vector Manipulation

  • Hands-on exercise: Locate debug interface, extract program code from a protected STMicroelectronics STM32F103 microcontroller via vector table remapping, identify differences between original and extracted code

E. Side Channel Timing Attack

  • Hands-on exercise: Discover side channel weakness on a custom circuit board, defeat PIN protection via timing attack

F. Other Techniques

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