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Accessing the firmware on flash devices

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kikiki

Post subject: Accessing the firmware on flash devices

Posted: November 13th, 2018, 11:21

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Hi, Please reply with information you have regarding accessing flash devices firmware.
Has anybody here was able to access the firmware of a flash device?

Thanks.

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MasterT

Post subject: Re: Accessing the firmware on flash devices

Posted: November 13th, 2018, 15:48

Joined: May 9th, 2017, 11:33
Posts: 62

https://hackmag.com/security/rubber-ducky/

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HaQue

Post subject: Re: Accessing the firmware on flash devices

Posted: November 13th, 2018, 21:53

Joined: December 4th, 2012, 1:35
Posts: 3542
Location: Adelaide, Australia

lookup "badusb". there was some research done a few years ago where you could actually run small programs on the flash drives' CPU. A specific version of Phison controllers. you could do some simple things like dump sections of memory IIRC.

It was hosted on GitHub I think and "Phison" was in the name. If you cant find I should be able to get more details.

There was a Blackhat and/or Defcon talk along with whitepaper.

cool as hell, wish I had more time to play around with stuff like that

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Accessing the firmware on flash devices

Posted: November 13th, 2018, 22:02

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 12437
Location: Australia

HaQue wrote:

The info is at MasterT's link.

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HaQue

Post subject: Re: Accessing the firmware on flash devices

Posted: November 15th, 2018, 8:26

Joined: December 4th, 2012, 1:35
Posts: 3542
Location: Adelaide, Australia

Thanks Franc, so it is. The info I was taking about is referenced as such

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However, soon after, two other researchers (Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson) presented to the whole world at Derbycon conference an operable PoC tailored to Phison 2251-03 microcontroller The code is available at GitHub.

https://github.com/brandonlw/Psychson

Actually I have seen this as well... I went to save it and seems files already exist. My file hoarding is overtaking my memory...

I didn't visit the link as I associate USB Rubber Ducky with Hak5's product, and this isn't an actual USB flash drive.
https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe

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sourcerer

Post subject: Re: Accessing the firmware on flash devices

Posted: November 15th, 2018, 18:19

Joined: August 13th, 2016, 17:10
Posts: 100
Location: Vienna, Austria

This new paper has a good overview of the several possible ways to get access to the firmware of flash devices:
https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/909275/ ... aper_1.pdf

I also wrote about how I got access to firmware:
http://www2.futureware.at/~philipp/ssd/ ... Manual.pdf

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