November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
452 pages
11h 46m
English
If we cannot obtain firmware via the vendor site or proxying its traffic, we can start dumping the device firmware via UART, SPI, or JTAG. Dumping firmware directly requires access to a device and disassembling the device to find its flash storage. Once the flash storage chip is located, you can either connect your UART pins directly or use an 8-pin SOIC chip-clip to dump the firmware using flashrom and an SPI-enabled hardware board such as a Shikra. The following is how an SOIC clip and a Shikra would be connected to a device:

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