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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify vulnerabilities and secure your smart devices

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280571

Length 452 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. IoT Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. IoT Threat Modeling

3. Analyzing and Exploiting Firmware

4. Exploitation of Embedded Web Applications

5. Exploiting IoT Mobile Applications

6. IoT Device Hacking

7. Radio Hacking

8. Firmware Security Best Practices

9. Mobile Security Best Practices

10. Securing Hardware

11. Advanced IoT Exploitation and Security Automation

Analyzing filesystem contents

Now that we know how to reverse engineer firmware and extract the filesystem from it, in this section, we will look at the filesystem contents and perform additional vulnerability analyses on it. This will help us gain a deeper understanding of how to find security issues in firmware images, using which, we will be able to compromise an IoT device.

Getting ready

There are two approaches to analyzing filesystem contents:

Manual analysis.
Automated tools and scripts.

Manual analysis

In this approach of hunting for vulnerabilities within the firmware filesystem content, we perform analysis of the various files and folders present in the filesystem. This could range anywhere from looking at the configuration files, web directories, password files, hunting for backdoors, and so on. This is an ideal way of discovering vulnerabilities in the given firmware, and will be our focus for this section.

Automated tools and scripts

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