Research

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This portion of the project will likely be very time-consuming. The goal here is to gather and document research that will help me complete my project more efficiently. Subtopics can be found below. I will also likely need to connect with people from the IoT division of the Leahy Center to gain an understanding of the techniques and tools that they use.

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• [x] Firmware: Tools
• [x] Firmware: Sources
• [ ] Firmware: Devices
• [x] Firmware: Techniques
• [x] Data Analysis: Tools
• [x] Data Analysis: Organizational Techniques
• [x] Data Analysis: Analysis techniques
• [ ] IoT Frameworks

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Firmware Techniques

https://blog.nvisium.com/intro-to-hardware-hacking-dumping-your-first-firmware

Discusses use of firmware extraction tools, also covers extraction from hardware

https://embeddedbits.org/2020-02-20-extracting-firmware-from-devices-using-jtag/

General firmware hardware extraction guide/JTAG usage guide

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Firmware Tools

https://nse.digital/pages/guides/firmware/firmware_hacking.html

Contains list of different firmware tools. Source contains links to documentation for each tool.

https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk

GitHub documentation for Binwalk

https://github.com/attify/firmware-analysis-toolkit

Firmware analysis toolkit documentation

https://gitlab.com/bytesweep/bytesweep

Bytesweep GitLab documentation

https://github.com/craigz28/firmwalker

Firmwalker Github documentation

https://github.com/armijnhemel/binaryanalysis-ng

binaryanalysis-ng GitHub documentation

https://github.com/firmadyne/firmadyne

Firmadyne GitHub documentation

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Firmware Sources

https://www.tarlogic.com/blog/owasp-fstm-obtaining-iot-device-firmware/

OWASP FSTM stage 2: Obtaining Firmware from IoT devices

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Firmware Devices

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IoT Frameworks

https://iot4beginners.com/top-10-open-source-iot-frameworks/ https://iotdunia.com/what-is-iot-framework-list-top-10-open-source-iot-frameworks/

Lists of 10 IoT frameworks each

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Data Analysis Tools

https://wiki.wireshark.org/Tools

Wireshark

https://guruchahal.medium.com/gurus-guide-to-excel-ing-as-a-network-engineer-ac38d3b9203c

Excel

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Data Analysis Techniques

https://study.com/academy/lesson/network-traffic-analysis-flow-analysis-vs-packet-analysis.html

Flow analysis vs. packet analysis

https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/data-analytics/data-analysis-techniques/

7 useful data analysis techniques that can be pivoted to apply to this context

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Data Analysis Organization

https://devdojo.com/kevgardner83/3-ways-of-effectively-organizing-data-for-better-analysis-and-presentation

3 techniques for data organization

https://www.sisense.com/glossary/data-organization/

A methodological approach for data organization

https://www.questionpro.com/blog/data-organization/

Includes a breakdown of best practices for data organization