AVATAR: A Framework to Support Dynamic Security Analysis of Embedded Systems’ Firmwares

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Presented at NDSS 2014 by

Davide Balzarotti

Jonas Zaddach

Aurélien Francillon

Luca Bruno

In this paper we present AVATAR, a framework that enables complex dynamic analysis of embedded devices, orchestrating firmware emulation together with real hardware. We demonstrate its utility by performing symbolic execution and vulnerability analysis of several devices, including a hard-disk controller, a GSM feature phone and a wireless sensor node.