Tag: reverse-engineering

In a blog post published last December, we demonstrated how we managed to extract the firmware from a smartwatch by exploiting an out-of-bounds read vulnerability and spying on its screen interface. Follow us on our long and unexpected journey to figure out how this smartwatch can measure heart rate or blood pressure with no visible sensor, the problems we encountered while analyzing its firmware, and how we solved them to uncover The Truth about this device.

This blog post demonstrates how a modern variant of an hardware attack found in the 2000's allowed the extraction of a €12 smartwatch's firmware using only cheap and robust hardware. Damien and Thomas (introduced later in this post) gave a talk on this subject at this year's leHACK edition in Paris.

The internship season is back at Quarkslab! Our internship positions cover a wide range of topics and expertise, and aim at tackling new challenges in various fields.

On August 20th, Apple released an out-of-band security fix for its main operating systems. This patch allegedly fixes CVE-2025-43300, an out-of-bounds write, addressed with improved bounds checking in the ImageIO framework. In this blog post we provide a root cause analysis of the vulnerability.

An introduction to Wirego, a tool for Wireshark plugin development

We discovered several vulnerabilities impacting the boot chain of several Samsung devices. Chained together, they allow us to execute code in the bootloader, get root access on Android with persistency, and finally leak anything from the Secure World's memory including the Android Keystore keys.

This blogpost explains how we recovered the firmware of a fleet-sharing Electronic Control Unit (ECU) which has been erased from a FAT memory using Capstone disassembler to locate scattered parts, to be able to reverse-engineer it.

This second article describes how to convert a Silo into a Server Silo in order to create a Windows Container. In addition, it dives into certain Kernel side Silo mechanisms.

Ever wanted to find a nice tool to easily represent cartography results and other graphs? The Sourcetrail tool could be a nice solution! In this blog post, we will introduce two of our tools: Numbat, a new Python API for Sourcetrail, and Pyrrha, a mapper collection for firmware cartography.

Study of an Android runtime (ART) hijacking mechanism for bytecode injection through a step-by-step analysis of the packer used to protect the DJI Pilot Android application.