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Firmware

All low level firmware related stuff. Including internals and security of BIOS/UEFI, SMM, DRAM, ME/AMT etc.

12 Articles

Firmware security 3: Digging into System management mode (SMM)

In the third part of the series we are going to discuss System management mode (SMM) and it's security. Moreover, We will try to interact with the SMM from our linux system.

By Shubham Dubey 20 Mar 2021

Firmware

Firmware security 1: Playing with PCI device memory

In this part of the series we will go through the basic of PCI devices and their memory. We will be developing linux kernel driver and using chipsec to analyze the data practically.

By Shubham Dubey 14 Nov 2020

Intel architecture

Segmentation in Intel x64(IA-32e) architecture - explained using Linux

In this article we will go through Segmentation in basic and cover it for x64 (IA-32e) processors by extracting the details inside a Linux system.

By Shubham Dubey 21 Feb 2020

Virtualization

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 4 - Setting up HOST and GUEST State

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. In this part we will do the setup of HOST and GUEST state area and at last the vmlaunch.

By Shubham Dubey 12 Nov 2019

Virtualization

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 3 - Setting up VMCS

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. In this part we will do the setup of VMCS structure.

By Shubham Dubey 30 Sep 2019

Virtualization

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 2 - VMXON Operation

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. In this part we will execute VMXON operation.

By Shubham Dubey 9 Aug 2019

Virtualization

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 1 - Intro and Setup

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. Also this series will help to learn low level virtualization.

By Shubham Dubey 8 Aug 2019

Firmware

Getting processor information using cpuid instruction and inline assembly

cpuid is a processor specific instruction used to get processor's information and features. In this post we are going to learn how to extract those information using inline assembly in c.

By Shubham Dubey 19 Jul 2019

Reverse engineering

What's at 1st sector/MBR of hard disk(MBR Forensics)

MBR have lots of details about the hard disk or other storage disk which can be used for forensics purposes. In this article we will analyze the MBR's 512 bytes of data and try to interpret it.

By Shubham Dubey 22 Nov 2018

Firmware

Analyse default BIOS protection of your system against LoJax: UEFI rootkit

LoJax is first rootkit in the wild that try to write a UEFI module into system's SPI Flash Memory. You can analyse your system's default BIOS/UEFI protection against such malware which we will discuss in this article.

By Shubham Dubey 28 Sep 2018

Firmware

Replace your proprietary bios with linux firmware

Intel system comes with UEFI, UEFI is a proprietary and closed-source operating system that can be exploited.NERF (Non-Extensible Reduced Firmware), an open source software system developed at Google can replace almost all of UEFI firmware with a tiny Linux kernel and initramfs.

By Shubham Dubey 5 Jan 2018

Linux

How to boot linux iso without usb on corrupted bios of lenovo laptops

Grub2 have the capability to boot directly from iso file present in any of your hard drive storage. Using this feature most Linux distributions as well as popular rescue CDs can be booted directly from an ISO file.

By Shubham Dubey 27 Dec 2017

Firmware

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