Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Firmware

Firmware is a set of software that takes control of the device's hardware. Analyzing the firmware is a critical step for IoT penetration testing. In order to achieve that, you can use a lot of tools and utilities. One of them is binwalk, which is a great tool developed also by Craig Heffner that helps pentesters to analyze the firmware of an IoT device. You can simply grab it from this GitHub link: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/blob/master/INSTALL.md. Let's run the following commands:

# git clone https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/# cd binwalk# ./deps.sh

Then, install it by using the following command:

# sudo ./setup.py install

If you are using Kali Linux Distribution, you can use binwalk directly by typing binwalk in ...