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PUWELL's Bizarre Adventure

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Talk was given at CovHackSoc in early 2020, based on work I did over the summer in 2019.

Covers some basic hardware hacking, where I bought a cheap IP camera off Amazon and how I got code executation on it.

Talk covers:

  • Discovering the debug pads.
  • Hooking up a UART adapter to talk to the bootloader.
  • Tricked the u-boot based bootloader into dumping itself.
  • Some some firmware analysis to discover how to trick it to load a debug script and get a shell.
  • Mounting a new rootfs and using pivot_root to get my own environment on it.

Interesting as I couldn't use the usual trick of swapping the value of init in the kernel arguments, hence the use of the debug script trick.