Intel ME: The Way of the Static Analysis

Presented at TROOPERS17 (2017), March 23, 2017, 11:30 a.m. (Unknown duration).

Intel Management Engine (ME) technology is known for more than 10 years (since 2005), but it seems to be impossible to find any official information about ME on the Internet. Fortunately, some excellent studies have been published in recent years. But all of them are dealt with ME 10 and earlier, while modern computers implements ME 11 (introduced in 2015 for Skylake microarchitecture). In our presentation we would try to fill the gap in knowledge about ME 11.x and deliver findings that could be obtained with static analysis of firmware updates and tools available on the Web.


Presenters:

  • Dmitry Sklyarov
    Dmitry Sklyarov is a Head of Reverse Engineering Department at Positive Technologies. Former Security Researcher at Elcomsoft and a lecturer at Moscow State Technical University. He did a research on the security of eBooks and on the authentication of digital photos. Recent research projects involved smartphone forensics.

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