Introduction to MCU Firmware Analysis and Modification with MSP430static

Presented at The Last HOPE (2008), July 18, 2008, 2 p.m. (60 minutes)

The Texas Instruments MSP430 is a low-power, 16-bit microcontroller which is rapidly gaining in popularity in the embedded world. MSP430static is a tool for reverse engineering the MSP430's firmware. Following a quick tour under the hood of this tool, this lecture will demonstrate how to analyze, modify, and reflash a black-box firmware image.

Presenters:

• Travis Goodspeed
  Travis Goodspeed works at the Extreme Measurement Communications Center of the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has spoken at ToorCon 9 and the Texas Instruments Developer's Conference regarding stack overflow exploits for the MSP430-based Wireless Sensor Networks. Having demonstrated that such attacks are possible, his present research is aimed at porting defense techniques, such as ASLR and code-auditing, to this platform.

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Last HOPE (2008)/The Last HOPE (2008) - Introduction to MCU Firmware Analysis and Modification with MSP430static.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSxBmtrs5NY

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