Hacking wireless with software defined radio (SDR)

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Infos

Start: 2019-03-24 10:00
End: 2019-03-24 18:00
Location: TÜV SÜD, Gebäude Newton, Ridlerstraße 57, 80339 München

Abstract

Wireless systems, and their radio signals, are everywhere: consumer, corporate, government, amateur - widely deployed and often vulnerable. With the exponential growth of connected devices in the IoT space there are more devices then ever using the airwaves.

This hands-on workshop will teach you how to find, analyse and begin to reverse engineer any signal. Focus will be on the 433 MHz band a which is non-regulated and commonly used in IoT.

Course outline:

  1. Introduction to software defined radio (SDR) and radio waves. This include some theory on radio waves, bands, modulation, etc
  2. Introduction to gnuradio
  3. Introduction to RTL-SDR
  4. Listening to radio waves with gnuradio - hands-on
  5. Capturing and reverse engineering radiowaves with gnuradio
  6. Introduction to universal radio hacker (urh)
  7. Capturing and reverse engineering radiowaves with urh
  8. Hands-on exercises with 433 Mhz using urh and arduino

Requirements

If you have any SDR equipment, bring it along! I’ll bring some equipment with me. You will need a modern laptop with Linux or have the possibility to setup to run a VM with access to USB ports (8 GB RAM and ~50 GB on the HDD).

All the software tools needed are provided in a VM and I will bring 10 hardware kits for all the hands-on part. So it can have up to 20 people by making groups of 2. These kits will lent to the participants, and can be sold to those interested.

Pablo Endres

@epablosensei

Pablo Endres, Founder of SevenShift GmbH. Experienced security consultant, professional hacker and trainer. Published Author.
Pablo’s career has taken place mostly doing security in a variety of industries, like Cloud Service providers, Banks, Telecommunications, contact centers, and universities. He holds a degree in computer engineering, as well as a handful security certifications: ISC2 CISSP, CompTIA Security+, and ISECOM’s OPSA + OPST.
Pablo has founded multiple companies in different continents and enjoys hacking, IoT, teaching, working with new technologies, startups, collaborating with Open Source projects, learning new things and being challenged.
In the last couple of years, he has been working mainly IoT security, testing dozens of devices, working with multiple platform providers to secure their solutions, and teaching an IoT Security Bootcamps.