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Direct Memory Access (DMA) Attack Software
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Is the USB3380 board necessary #184

Closed deadly-platypus closed 2 years ago

deadly-platypus commented 2 years ago

Given the current hardware availability issues, I was wondering if the separate USB3380 hardware is necessary. I have a victim PC with both Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.2 USB C ports, and an attacker PC with both ports as well. Would it be possible to just use the hardware I have on hand to use PCILeech. I tried using it, but I didn't get far, with PCILeech reporting PCILEECH: Failed to connect to the device. I am new to this kind of work, but am pretty experienced with systems development in general. If it is a matter of opening and using a device file if there is hardware available, then I'd be happy to add that support in!

ufrisk commented 2 years ago

You'd need hardware to perform DMA attacks. Just having a Thunderbolt<->Thunderbolt connection between the two PCs won't work.

The USB3380 is very limiting though. I don't recommend it. Better get FPGA based hardware from https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech-fpga unfortunately most are sold out currently due to the chip crisis.

deadly-platypus commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the response!