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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook
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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

by Aaron Guzman, Aditya Gupta
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
452 pages
11h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

Step 4 - identifying threats

Let's now document threats based upon our diagram and knowledge of the firmware contents. Remember, we have not disassembled or located the firmware image at this stage. The contents of the diagrams are assumptions based upon what the DVR advertises as its services and online documentation. The following are possible threats to firmware that attackers could exploit to do the following:

  • Perform remote code execution on network services
  • Gain admin access to the filesystem and attack the LAN
  • Intercept network communications
  • Access filesystem resources via SSH
  • Control DNS to redirect traffic to victim networks/computers
  • Access web configurations and possible secrets within firmware
  • Install malicious firmware or applications ...
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