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Here's a summary of each file:\n\n**File: A MACHINE MADE THIS BOOK ten sketches of computer science - JOHN WHITINGTON (PDF).pdf**\n\nThis book explores various aspects of computer science, starting from basic concepts like drawing lines and letters on a page to more complex topics like compression and programming. 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It covers various topics, from data representation and preprocessing to different types of machine learning algorithms.\n\n* **Chapter 1: Data and Information:** Introduces data representation and preprocessing techniques, including centering and scaling data.\n* **Chapter 2: Data Visualization:** Discusses methods for visualizing data to gain insights and understand patterns.\n* **Chapter 3: Learning:** Explains the core concept of learning in machine learning, emphasizing generalization and abstraction.\n* **Chapter 4: Types of Machine Learning:** Categorizes different types of machine learning, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.\n* **Chapter 5: Nearest Neighbors Classification:** Introduces the nearest neighbors algorithm for classification, providing a simple and intuitive approach.\n* **Chapter 6: The Naive Bayesian Classifier:** Explains the Naive Bayes model for classification, highlighting its assumptions and limitations.\n* **Chapter 7: The Perceptron:** Introduces the perceptron model for classification, a fundamental building block for neural networks.\n* **Chapter 8: Support Vector Machines:** Discusses support vector machines (SVMs) for classification, emphasizing their ability to handle non-linear data.\n* **Chapter 9: Support Vector Regression:** Introduces support vector regression (SVR) for predicting continuous values, highlighting its sparseness property.\n* **Chapter 10: Kernel Ridge Regression:** Explains kernel ridge regression for regression, a method that uses kernels to handle non-linear data.\n* **Chapter 11: Kernel K-means and Spectral Clustering:** Discusses kernel k-means and spectral clustering for unsupervised learning, focusing on grouping data points.\n* **Chapter 12: Kernel Principal Components Analysis:** Introduces kernel principal components analysis (KPCA) for dimensionality reduction, highlighting its ability to capture non-linear relationships.\n* **Chapter 13: Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis:** Explains Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FDA) for classification, emphasizing its use in finding optimal projections.\n* **Chapter 14: Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis:** Discusses kernel canonical correlation analysis (KCCA) for finding correlations between two sets of data.\n* **Appendix A: Essentials of Convex Optimization:** Provides a brief overview of convex optimization, including Lagrangian duality and KKT conditions.\n* **Appendix B: Kernel Design:** Discusses different types of kernels used in machine learning, including polynomial kernels, all subsets kernels, and Gaussian kernels.\n\n**File: BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered 1st Edition - Darmawan Salihun (PDF) BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf**\n\nThis book provides a comprehensive guide to BIOS reverse engineering, covering various techniques and tools for analyzing BIOS binaries. It focuses on understanding the internal structure of BIOS, its execution mechanism, and how to modify it.\n\n* **Chapter 2: Preliminary Reverse Code Engineering:** Introduces basic reverse engineering techniques using IDA Pro disassembler, including binary scanning, scripting, and plugin development.\n* **Chapter 3: BIOS-Related Software Development:** Explains how to develop BIOS-related software using both assembly language and GCC, focusing on generating flat binary files.\n* **Chapter 4: Getting Acquainted With the System:** Provides an overview of the BIOS code execution mechanism, highlighting hardware peculiarities and address mapping.\n* **Chapter 5: Implementation of Motherboard BIOS:** Discusses how BIOS vendors implement BIOS, focusing on Award BIOS and its compression algorithms.\n* **Chapter 6: BIOS Patching and Modification:** Explains how to patch and modify BIOS binaries using various tools like cbrom and Modbin.\n* **Chapter 7: PCI Expansion ROM Reverse Engineering:** Covers the structure and reverse engineering of PCI expansion ROMs, highlighting their binary architecture and checksum calculation.\n* **Chapter 8: BIOS Security and Trusted Computing:** Discusses BIOS security and trusted computing concepts, focusing on the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) standards and their implementation.\n* **Chapter 9: BIOS Flashing and Programming:** Explains how to flash and program BIOS chips using various tools and techniques.\n* **Chapter 10: BIOS Rootkits and Malware:** Discusses BIOS rootkits and malware, highlighting their techniques and how to detect and remove them.\n* **Chapter 11: BIOS Debugging and Analysis:** Covers BIOS debugging and analysis techniques, including using debuggers and analyzing memory dumps.\n* **Chapter 12: BIOS Virtualization and Emulation:** Explains BIOS virtualization and emulation techniques, highlighting their use in testing and development.\n\nThis summary provides a high-level overview of the content covered in each file. 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In this knowledge base are following Documents A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF).pdf, A MACHINE MADE THIS BOOK ten sketches of computer science - JOHN WHITINGTON (PDF).pdf, BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered 1st Edition - Darmawan Salihun (PDF) BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf, Advanced Algebra - Anthony W. Knapp (PDF).pdf This is the initial message to start the chat. Based on the following summary/context you should formulate an initial message greeting the user with the following user name [Gender] [Vorname] [Surname] tell them that you are the AI Chatbot Simon using the Large Language Model [Used Model] to answer all questions. Formulate the initial message in the Usersettings Language German Please use the following context to suggest some questions or topics to chat about this knowledge base. List at least 3-10 possible topics or suggestions up and use emojis. The chat should be professional and in business terms. At the end ask an open question what the user would like to check on the list. Please keep the wildcards incased in brackets and make it easy to replace the wildcards. The provided context consists of excerpts from various PDF files, primarily focusing on computer science and BIOS reverse engineering. Here's a summary of each file: **File: A MACHINE MADE THIS BOOK ten sketches of computer science - JOHN WHITINGTON (PDF).pdf** This book explores various aspects of computer science, starting from basic concepts like drawing lines and letters on a page to more complex topics like compression and programming. Each chapter delves into a specific area, providing practical examples and historical context. * **Chapter 1: Putting Marks on Paper:** Introduces the fundamental concepts of drawing lines and shapes on a page, using coordinates and units like points. * **Chapter 2: Letter Forms:** Explains how to draw letters from a typeface using curves and Bézier curves, highlighting the importance of typefaces in design. * **Chapter 3: Storing Words:** Discusses how computers represent human language, focusing on encoding systems like Unicode and markup languages. * **Chapter 4: Looking and Finding:** Introduces basic computer programming concepts through the example of searching for a word in a text, highlighting the importance of algorithms. * **Chapter 5: Typing it In:** Explores how to input text into a computer, covering typewriters, modern methods, and the challenges of typing Asian languages. * **Chapter 6: Saving Space:** Discusses compression techniques, explaining how to reduce the size of data without losing essential information. * **Chapter 7: Doing Sums:** Introduces programming concepts through the example of calculating sums and manipulating lists, culminating in a real program. * **Chapter 8: Grey Areas:** Explores the problem of reproducing grey tones using black ink on white paper, examining historical and modern methods. * **Chapter 9: Our Typeface:** Investigates the Palatino typeface, detailing its design and how letters are laid out on a page. * **Chapter 10: Words to Paragraphs:** Explains how to lay out a page by combining lines of letters into paragraphs, covering hyphenation, justification, and widow/orphan prevention. **File: A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF).pdf** This book provides an introductory guide to machine learning, focusing on intuitive explanations and practical examples. It covers various topics, from data representation and preprocessing to different types of machine learning algorithms. * **Chapter 1: Data and Information:** Introduces data representation and preprocessing techniques, including centering and scaling data. * **Chapter 2: Data Visualization:** Discusses methods for visualizing data to gain insights and understand patterns. * **Chapter 3: Learning:** Explains the core concept of learning in machine learning, emphasizing generalization and abstraction. * **Chapter 4: Types of Machine Learning:** Categorizes different types of machine learning, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. * **Chapter 5: Nearest Neighbors Classification:** Introduces the nearest neighbors algorithm for classification, providing a simple and intuitive approach. * **Chapter 6: The Naive Bayesian Classifier:** Explains the Naive Bayes model for classification, highlighting its assumptions and limitations. * **Chapter 7: The Perceptron:** Introduces the perceptron model for classification, a fundamental building block for neural networks. * **Chapter 8: Support Vector Machines:** Discusses support vector machines (SVMs) for classification, emphasizing their ability to handle non-linear data. * **Chapter 9: Support Vector Regression:** Introduces support vector regression (SVR) for predicting continuous values, highlighting its sparseness property. * **Chapter 10: Kernel Ridge Regression:** Explains kernel ridge regression for regression, a method that uses kernels to handle non-linear data. * **Chapter 11: Kernel K-means and Spectral Clustering:** Discusses kernel k-means and spectral clustering for unsupervised learning, focusing on grouping data points. * **Chapter 12: Kernel Principal Components Analysis:** Introduces kernel principal components analysis (KPCA) for dimensionality reduction, highlighting its ability to capture non-linear relationships. * **Chapter 13: Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis:** Explains Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FDA) for classification, emphasizing its use in finding optimal projections. * **Chapter 14: Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis:** Discusses kernel canonical correlation analysis (KCCA) for finding correlations between two sets of data. * **Appendix A: Essentials of Convex Optimization:** Provides a brief overview of convex optimization, including Lagrangian duality and KKT conditions. * **Appendix B: Kernel Design:** Discusses different types of kernels used in machine learning, including polynomial kernels, all subsets kernels, and Gaussian kernels. **File: BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered 1st Edition - Darmawan Salihun (PDF) BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf** This book provides a comprehensive guide to BIOS reverse engineering, covering various techniques and tools for analyzing BIOS binaries. It focuses on understanding the internal structure of BIOS, its execution mechanism, and how to modify it. * **Chapter 2: Preliminary Reverse Code Engineering:** Introduces basic reverse engineering techniques using IDA Pro disassembler, including binary scanning, scripting, and plugin development. * **Chapter 3: BIOS-Related Software Development:** Explains how to develop BIOS-related software using both assembly language and GCC, focusing on generating flat binary files. * **Chapter 4: Getting Acquainted With the System:** Provides an overview of the BIOS code execution mechanism, highlighting hardware peculiarities and address mapping. * **Chapter 5: Implementation of Motherboard BIOS:** Discusses how BIOS vendors implement BIOS, focusing on Award BIOS and its compression algorithms. * **Chapter 6: BIOS Patching and Modification:** Explains how to patch and modify BIOS binaries using various tools like cbrom and Modbin. * **Chapter 7: PCI Expansion ROM Reverse Engineering:** Covers the structure and reverse engineering of PCI expansion ROMs, highlighting their binary architecture and checksum calculation. * **Chapter 8: BIOS Security and Trusted Computing:** Discusses BIOS security and trusted computing concepts, focusing on the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) standards and their implementation. * **Chapter 9: BIOS Flashing and Programming:** Explains how to flash and program BIOS chips using various tools and techniques. * **Chapter 10: BIOS Rootkits and Malware:** Discusses BIOS rootkits and malware, highlighting their techniques and how to detect and remove them. * **Chapter 11: BIOS Debugging and Analysis:** Covers BIOS debugging and analysis techniques, including using debuggers and analyzing memory dumps. * **Chapter 12: BIOS Virtualization and Emulation:** Explains BIOS virtualization and emulation techniques, highlighting their use in testing and development. 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You are Simon, an intelligent personal assistant within the KIOS system. You can access knowledge bases provided in the user's "CONTEXT" and should expertly interpret this information to deliver the most relevant responses. In the "CONTEXT", prioritize information from the text tagged "FEEDBACK:". Your role is to act as an expert at reading the information provided by the user and giving the most relevant information. Prioritize clarity, trustworthiness, and appropriate formality when communicating with enterprise users. If a topic is outside your knowledge scope, admit it honestly and suggest alternative ways to obtain the information. Utilize chat history effectively to avoid redundancy and enhance relevance, continuously integrating necessary details. Focus on providing precise and accurate information in your answers. **Elapsed Time: 0.19 seconds** GEMINI ERROR -- FALLBACK TO GPT ================================================== FINAL QUERY Final Query: CONTEXT: ########## File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 5 Context: Proposed Table of Contents Preface i Table of contents iv Part I The Basics Chapter 1 Introducing PC BIOS Technology 1 1.1. Motherboard BIOS 1 1.2. Expansion ROM 7 1.3. Other PC Firmware 9 1.4. Bus Protocols and Chipset Technology 9 1.4.1. System-Wide Addressing 9 1.4.2. PCI Bus Protocol 11 1.4.3. Propietary Inter-Chipset Protocol Technology 15 1.4.4. PCI-Express Bus Protocol 17 1.4.5. HyperTransport Bus Protocol 18 Chapter 2 Preliminary Reverse Code Engineering 19 2.1. Binary Scanning 19 2.2. Introducing IDA Pro 22 2.3. IDA Pro Scripting and Key Bindings 28 2.4. IDA Pro Plug-in Development (Optional) 37 Chapter 3 Preliminary BIOS-Related Software Development 48 3.1. BIOS-Related Software Development with Pure Assembler 48 3.2. BIOS-Related Software Development with GCC 53 Part II Motherboard BIOS Reverse Engineering Chapter 4 Getting Acquainted with the System 61 4.1. Hardware Peculiarities 61 4.2. BIOS Binary Structure 74 4.3. Software Peculiarities 77 4.4. BIOS Disassembling with IDA Pro 81 Chapter 5 BIOS Reverse Engineering 83 5.1. Award BIOS 83 5.1.1. Award BIOS File Structure 83 5.1.2. Award BIOS Tools 85 5.1.3. Award Bootblock BIOS Reverse Engineering 86 5.1.4. Award System BIOS Reverse Engineering 99 5.2. AMI BIOS 113 5.2.1. AMI BIOS File Structure 113 5.2.2. AMI BIOS Tools 115 5.2.3. AMI Bootblock BIOS Reverse Engineering 116 5.2.4. AMI System BIOS Reverse Engineering 129 Chapter 6 BIOS Modification 173 6.1. Tools of the Trade 173 6.2. Code Injection 174 6.3. Other Modifications 184 Part III Expansion ROM #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 3 Context: architecture) and compression algorithm, computer science students might also find it useful. However, nothing prevents any people who is curious about BIOS technology to read this book and get benefit from it. Some prerequisite knowledge is needed to fully understand this book. It is not mandatory, but it will be very difficult to grasp some of the concepts without it. The most important knowledge is the understanding of x86 assembly language. Explanation of the disassembled code resulting from the BIOS binary and also the sample BIOS patches are presented in x86 assembly language. They are scattered throughout the book. Thus, it’s vital to know x86 assembly language, even with very modest familiarity. It’s also assumed that the reader have some familiarity with C programming language. The chapter that dwell on expansion ROM development along with the introductory chapter in BIOS related software development uses C language heavily for the example code. C is also used heavily in the section that covers IDA Pro scripts and plugin development. IDA Pro scripts have many similarities with C programming language. Familiarity with Windows Application Programming Interface (Win32API) is not a requirement, but is very useful to grasp the concept in the Optional section of chapter 3 that covers IDA Pro plugin development. THE ORGANIZATION The first part of the book lays the foundation knowledge to do BIOS reverse engineering and Expansion ROM development. In this part, the reader is introduced with: a. Various bus protocols in use nowadays within the x86 platform, i.e. PCI, HyperTransport and PCI-Express. The focus is toward the relationship between BIOS code execution and the implementation of protocols. b. Reverse engineering tools and techniques needed to carry out the tasks in later chapter, mostly introduction to IDA Pro disassembler along with its advanced techniques. c. Crash course on advanced compiler tricks needed to develop firmware. The emphasis is in using GNU C compiler to develop a firmware framework. The second part of this book reveals the details of motherboard BIOS reverse engineering and modification. This includes indepth coverage of BIOS file structure, algorithms used within the BIOS, explanation of various BIOS specific tools from its corresponding vendor and explanation of tricks to perform BIOS modification. The third part of the book deals with the development of PCI expansion ROM. In this part, PCI Expansion ROM structure is explained thoroughly. Then, a systematic PCI expansion ROM development with GNU tools is presented. The fourth part of the book deals heavily with the security concerns within the BIOS. This part is biased toward possible implementation of rootkits within the BIOS and possible exploitation scenario that might be used by an attacker by exploiting the BIOS flaw. Computer security experts will find a lot of important information in this part. This part is the central theme in this book. It’s presented to improve the awareness against malicious code that can be injected into BIOS. The fifth part of the book deals with the application of BIOS technology outside of its traditional space, i.e. the PC. In this chapter, the reader is presented with various application of the BIOS technology in the emerging embedded x86 platform. In the end of this part, further application of the technology presented in this book is explained briefly. Some explanation regarding the OpenBIOS and Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is also presented. SOFTWARE TOOLS COMPATIBILITY This book mainly deals with reverse engineering tools running in windows operating system. However, in chapters that deal with PCI Expansion ROM development, an x86 Linux installation #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 1 Context: # BIOS DISASSEMBLY NINJUTSU UNCOVERED **Author**: Damarwan Sahlun ## Table of Contents 1. [Introduction](#introduction) 2. [Chapter 1: Understanding BIOS](#chapter-1-understanding-bios) 3. [Chapter 2: Tools Required](#chapter-2-tools-required) 4. [Chapter 3: Basic Disassembly Techniques](#chapter-3-basic-disassembly-techniques) 5. [Chapter 4: Advanced Techniques](#chapter-4-advanced-techniques) 6. [Conclusion](#conclusion) --- ## Introduction This book focuses on the intricacies of BIOS disassembly, providing insights into techniques and tools necessary for effective analysis. ## Chapter 1: Understanding BIOS - **What is BIOS?** BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is firmware that initializes hardware during the booting process. - **Importance of BIOS in Computing** BIOS plays a crucial role in system stability and performance. ## Chapter 2: Tools Required To perform BIOS disassembly, the following tools are required: - Hex Editor - Disassembler (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra) - Debugger (e.g., OllyDbg) - System Information Tool ## Chapter 3: Basic Disassembly Techniques 1. **Dumping the BIOS** Use a flash tool to extract the BIOS image from your device. 2. **Analyzing the Dump** Load the dumped BIOS image into a hex editor or disassembler. 3. **Identifying Key Sections** Recognize crucial sections such as the boot block and setup code. ## Chapter 4: Advanced Techniques - **Code Injection** Techniques for injecting custom code into the BIOS image. - **Modifying BIOS Parameters** Understanding which parameters can be safely modified. - **Testing Modifications** Use virtual environments to test changes before applying them. ## Conclusion With the knowledge gained from this book, readers should be equipped to explore BIOS disassembly effectively. Each chapter builds upon the last, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter. --- **Disclaimer**: BIOS disassembly and modification can void warranties and may risk system stability. Proceed with caution. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 9 Context: Part I The Basics Chapter 1 PC BIOS Technology PREVIEW This chapter is devoted to explaining the parts of a PC that make up the term basic input/output system (BIOS). These are not only motherboard BIOS, which most readers might already be accustomed to, but also expansion read-only memories (ROMs). The BIOS is one of the key parts of a PC. BIOS provides the necessary execution environment for the operating system. The approach that I take to explain this theme follows the logic of the execution of BIOS subsystems inside the PC. It is one of the fastest ways to gain a systematic understanding of BIOS technology. In this journey, you will encounter answers to common questions: Why is it there? Why does it have to be accomplished that way? The discussion starts with the most important BIOS, motherboard BIOS. On top of that, this chapter explains contemporary bus protocol technology, i.e., PCI Express, HyperTransport, and peripheral component interconnect (PCI). A profound knowledge of bus protocol technology is needed to be able to understand most contemporary BIOS code. 1.1. Motherboard BIOS Motherboard BIOS is the most widely known BIOS from all kinds of BIOS. This term refers to the machine code that resides in a dedicated ROM chip on the motherboard. Today, most of these ROM chips are the members of flash-ROM family. This name refers to a ROM chip programmed1 electrically in a short interval, i.e., the programming takes only a couple of seconds. There is a common misconception between the BIOS chip and the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip. The former is the chip that's used to store the BIOS code, i.e., the machine code that will be executed when the processor executes the BIOS, and the latter is the chip that's used to store the BIOS parameters, i.e., the parameters that someone sets when entering the BIOS, such as the computer date and the RAM timing. Actually, CMOS chip is a misleading name. It is true that the chip is built upon CMOS technology. However, the purpose of the chip is to store BIOS information with the help of a dedicated battery. In that respect, it should’ve been called non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) chip in order to represent the nature and purpose of the chip. Nonetheless, the CMOS chip term is used widely among PC users and hardware vendors. 1 Programmed in this context means being erased or written into. 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 77 Context: Part II Motherboard BIOS Reverse Engineering Chapter 4 Getting Acquainted With the System PREVIEW This chapter explains the big picture of the BIOS code execution mechanism. The BIOS does not execute code in the same way as most application software. The hardware and software intricacies, as well as the compatibility issues, inherited from the first-generation x86 processor complicate the mechanism. These intricacies and the x86 hardware architecture overall are explained thoroughly in this chapter. Note that the focus is on the motherboard, CPU, and system logic.1 4.1. Hardware Peculiarities When it comes to the BIOS, PC hardware has many peculiarities. This section dissects those peculiarities and looks at the effect of those peculiarities on BIOS code execution. 4.1.1. System Address Mapping and BIOS Chip Addressing The overall view of PC hardware architecture today is complex, especially for people who didn't grow up with DOS. What does modern-day hardware have to do with DOS? DOS has a strong bond with the BIOS and the rest of the hardware. This difficult relationship has been inherited for decades in the PC hardware architecture to maintain compatibility. DOS has many assumptions about the BIOS and the rest of the hardware that interact with it. Unlike a modern-day operating system, DOS allows the application software to interact directly with the hardware. Thus, many predefined address ranges have to be maintained in today's PC hardware as they worked in the DOS days. Currently, the bulk of these predefined address range tasks are handled by the motherboard chipset, along 1 System logic is another term for motherboard chipset. 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 2 Context: Preface BIOS DISASSEMBLY NINJUTSU UNCOVERED – THE BOOK For many years, there has been a myth among computer enthusiasts and practitioners that PC BIOS (Basic Input Output System) modification is a kind of black art and only a handful of people can do it or only the motherboard vendor can carry out such a task. On the contrary, this book will prove that with the right tools and approach, anyone can understand and modify the BIOS to suit their needs without the existence of its source code. It can be achieved by using a systematic approach to BIOS reverse engineering and modification. An advanced level of this modification technique is injecting a custom code to the BIOS binary. There are many reasons to carry out BIOS reverse engineering and modification, from the fun of doing it to achieve higher clock speed in overclocking scenario, patching certain bug, injecting a custom security code into the BIOS, up to commercial interest in the embedded x86 BIOS market. The emergence of embedded x86 platform as consumer electronic products such as TV set-top boxes, telecom-related appliances and embedded x86 kiosks have raised the interest in BIOS reverse engineering and modification. In the coming years, these techniques will become even more important as the state of the art bus protocols have delegate a lot of their initialization task to the firmware, i.e. the BIOS. Thus, by understanding the techniques, one can dig the relevant firmware codes and understand the implementation of those protocols within the BIOS binary. The main purpose of the BIOS is to initialize the system into execution environment suitable for the operating system. This task is getting more complex over the years, since x86 hardware evolves quite significantly. It’s one of the most dynamic computing platform on earth. Introduction of new chipsets happens once in 3 or at least 6 month. This event introduces a new code base for the silicon support routine within the BIOS. Nevertheless, the overall architecture of the BIOS is changing very slowly and the basic principle of the code inside the BIOS is preserved over generations of its code. However, there has been a quite significant change in the BIOS scene in the last few years, with the introduction of EFI (extensible Firmware Interface) by several major hardware vendors and with the growth in OpenBIOS project. With these advances in BIOS technology, it’s even getting more important to know systematically what lays within the BIOS. In this book, the term BIOS has a much broader meaning than only motherboard BIOS, which is familiar to most of the reader. It also means the expansion ROM. The latter term is the official term used to refer to the firmware in the expansion cards within the PC, be it ISA, PCI or PCI Express. So, what can you expect after reading this book? Understanding the BIOS will open a new frontier. You will be able to grasp how exactly the PC hardware works in its lowest level. Understanding contemporary BIOS will reveal the implementation of the latest bus protocol technology, i.e. HyperTransport and PCI-Express. In the software engineering front, you will be able to appreciate the application of compression technology in the BIOS. The most important of all, you will be able to carry out reverse engineering using advanced techniques and tools. You will be able to use the powerful IDA Pro disassembler efficiently. Some reader with advanced knowledge in hardware and software might even want to “borrow” some of the algorithm within the BIOS for their own purposes. In short, you will be on the same level as other BIOS code-diggers. This book also presents a generic approach to PCI expansion ROM development using the widely available GNU tools. There will be no more myth in the BIOS and everyone will be able to learn from this state-of-the-art software technology for their own benefits. THE AUDIENCE This book is primarily oriented toward system programmers and computer security experts. In addition, electronic engineers, pc technicians and computer enthusiasts can also benefit a lot from this book. Furthermore, due to heavy explanation of applied computer architecture (x86 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 28 Context: Chapter 2 Preliminary Reverse Code Engineering PREVIEW This chapter introduces software reverse engineering1 techniques by using IDA Pro disassembler. Techniques used in IDA Pro to carry out reverse code engineering of a flat binary file are presented. BIOS binary flashed into the BIOS chip is a flat binary file.2 That's why these techniques are important to master. The IDA Pro advanced techniques presented include scripting and plugin development. By becoming acquainted with these techniques, you will able to carry out reverse code engineering in platforms other than x86. 2.1. Binary Scanning The first step in reverse code engineering is not always firing up the disassembler and dumping the binary file to be analyzed into it, unless you already know the structure of the target binary file. Doing a preliminary assessment on the binary file itself is recommended for a foreign binary file. I call this preliminary assessment binary scanning, i.e., opening up the binary file within a hex editor and examining the content of the binary with it. For an experienced reverse code engineer, sometimes this step is more efficient rather than firing up the disassembler. If the engineer knows intimately the machine architecture where the binary file was running, he or she would be able to recognize key structures within the binary file without firing up a disassembler. This is sometimes encountered when an engineer is analyzing firmware. Even a world-class disassembler like IDA Pro seldom has an autoanalysis feature for most firmware used in the computing world. I will present an example for such a case. Start by opening an Award BIOS binary file with Hex Workshop version 4.23. Open a BIOS binary file for the Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 motherboard. The result is shown in figure 2.1. 1 Software reverse engineering is also known as reverse code engineering. It is sometimes abbreviated as RCE. 2 A flat binary file is a file that contains only the raw executable code (possibly with self-contained data) in it. It has no header of any form, unlike an executable file that runs within an operating system. The latter adheres to some form of file format and has a header so that it can be recognized and handled correctly by the operating system. 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 577 Context: 15.4. Because of that fact, I think it’s easy to predict the direction of Phoenix BIOS-related developments in the coming years. Another possible area for future “expansion” in the BIOS field is the remote manageability feature in servers and embedded server platforms. Intel has defined the technical specification for remote manageability that runs as part of the server hardware. The specification is called Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). You can download the latest specification at http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/ . IPMI is particularly interesting because it enables a “server”2 machine to carryout management tasks remotely, such as rebooting a remote server that stops operating normally, etc. This is possible because of the use of dedicated “sideband” signaling interface that doesn’t require the presence of a working operating system to manage the remote machine. Normally, you will need the operating system in the remote machine to be working flawlessly in order to connect into it through the network. However, IPMI dictates the presence of the so-called baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC is a “daughter” board—a board plugged into the motherboard—that contains a specialized microprocessor that handles health monitoring, alert and management functions independently of the main processor. Therefore, even if the main processor halts, the system is still “reachable” through the BMC. Administrators can restart or repair the machine through the BMC interface. It’s exciting to watch how this technology will be implemented in future systems. Beside the IPMI technology, it’s also important to pay attention to implementation of Intel Active Management Technology as it as been implemented in some of the most recent chipsets from Intel. These technologies need firmware level supports in order to work. This fact, ofcourse is very exciting for firmware developers as well as firmware reverse engineers. As a pointer, you might want to look for Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA)-related product whitepapers/documentations from AMI and Phoenix, because ATCA systems mostly implement “deep” remote manageability features such as IPMI. 15.2. Ubiquitous Computing and Development in BIOS Technology The term ubiquitous computing refers to the integration of computing devices into the “daily life” environment, rather than having the computing devices as “distinct object”. This term actually refers to the situation when people do not perceive the computing device as a computing device; rather, they view it as “everyday” apparatus, more or less, like how people perceive their microwave oven as “everyday” apparatus. In chapter 14, I have presented a TV set-top box (STB) based on embedded x86 technology. As you read in section 14.2.1, this device can be considered as part of ubiquitous computing because it’s used by people without even noticing that it’s a computing device. However, they are aware that it’s an electronic entertainment device. As explained in section 14.2.1, the implementation of the “core” etBIOS is more like a workaround to the Award BIOS binary that’s used as the basis for the embedded x86 TV 2 The “server” machine is not exactly a server in terms of client-server relationship. It’s more like a supervisor machine that inspects the server that’s being monitored. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 6 Context: Chapter 7 PCI Expansion ROM Software Development 195 7.1. Plug and Play BIOS and Expansion ROM Architecture 195 7.1.1. Power-On Self-Test Execution Flow 196 7.1.2. Expansion ROM Support 198 7.2. PCI Expansion ROM Peculiarities 200 7.3. Implementation Sample 200 7.3.1. Hardware Testbed 200 7.3.2. Software Development Tool 201 7.3.3. Expansion ROM Source Code 202 7.3.3.1. Core PCI PnP Expansion ROM Source Code 202 7.3.3.2. PCI PnP Expansion ROM Checksum Utility Source Code 211 7.2. Building the Sample 216 7.3. Testing the Sample 217 7.4. Potential Bug and Its Workaround 218 Chapter 8 PCI Expansion ROM Reverse Engineering 219 a. Binary Architecture 219 b. Disassembling the Main Code 202 Part IV BIOS Ninjutsu Chapter 9 Accessing BIOS within the Operating System 208 5.1. General Access Mechanism 208 5.2. Accessing Motherboard BIOS Contents in Windows 217 5.3. Accessing Expansion ROM Contents in Windows 226 5.4. Accessing Motherboard BIOS Contents in Linux 235 5.5. Accessing Expansion ROM Contents in Linux 244 Chapter 10 Low-Level Remote Server Management 263 - DMI and SMBIOS Protocols 263 - Remote Server Management Code Implementation 275 Chapter 11 BIOS Security Measures 285 15.1.1. Password Protection Code 287 15.1.2. BIOS Code Integrity Checks 308 15.1.3. Remote Server Management Security Measures 327 Chapter 12 BIOS Rootkits Engineering 346 a. Looking Back to BIOS Exploitation History 346 b. DMI and SMBIOS Protocol Flaws 355 c. DMI and SMBIOS Protocol Exploitation 364 Chapter 13 BIOS Defense Techniques 374 1. Prevention Methods 374 2. Recognizing Compromised Systems 382 3. Healing Compromised Systems 392 Part V Other Applications of BIOS Technology Chapter 14 Embedded x86 BIOS Technology 402 Embedded x86 BIOS Architecture 402 Embedded x86 BIOS Implementation Samples 405 i.TV Set-Top Boxes 408 ii.Routers 412 iii.Kiosks 415 #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: viiiChapter1startsfromnothing.Wehaveaplainwhitepageonwhichtoplacemarksininktomakelettersandpictures.Howdowedecidewheretoputtheink?Howcanwedrawaconvincingstraightline?Usingamicroscope,wewilllookattheeffectofputtingthesemarksonrealpaperusingdifferentprintingtechniques.Weseehowtheproblemanditssolutionschangeifwearedrawingonthecomputerscreeninsteadofprintingonpaper.Havingdrawnlines,webuildfilledshapes.Chapter2showshowtodrawlettersfromarealistictypeface–letterswhicharemadefromcurvesandnotjuststraightlines.Wewillseehowtypefacedesignerscreatesuchbeautifulshapes,andhowwemightdrawthemonthepage.Alittlegeometryisinvolved,butnothingwhichcan’tbedonewithapenandpaperandaruler.Wefilltheseshapestodrawlettersonthepage,anddealwithsomesurprisingcomplications.Chapter3describeshowcomputersandcommunicationequip-mentdealwithhumanlanguage,ratherthanjustthenum-berswhicharetheirnativetongue.Weseehowtheworld’slanguagesmaybeencodedinastandardform,andhowwecantellthecomputertodisplayourtextindifferentways.Chapter4introducessomeactualcomputerprogramming,inthecontextofamethodforconductingasearchthroughanexist-ingtexttofindpertinentwords,aswemightwhenconstruct-inganindex.Wewritearealprogramtosearchforawordinagiventext,andlookatwaystomeasureandimproveitsperformance.Weseehowthesetechniquesareusedbythesearchenginesweuseeveryday.Chapter5exploreshowtogetabookfulofinformationintothecomputertobeginwith.Afterahistoricalinterludeconcern-ingtypewritersandsimilardevicesfromthenineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturies,weconsidermodernmethods.ThenwelookathowtheAsianlanguagescanbetyped,eventhosewhichhavehundredsofthousandsormillionsofsymbols.Chapter6dealswithcompression–thatis,makingwordsandimagestakeuplessspace,withoutlosingessentialdetail.Howeverfastandcapaciouscomputershavebecome,itisstillnecessarytokeepthingsassmallaspossible.Asapracticalexample,weconsiderthemethodofcompressionusedwhensendingfaxes. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 209 Context: Chapter 6 BIOS Modification PREVIEW This chapter delves into the principles and mechanics of BIOS modification. It puts together all of the technology that you learned in previous chapters into a proof of concept. Here I demystify the systematic BIOS modification process that only a few have conquered. I focus on Award BIOS modification. 6.1. Tools of the Trade You are only as good as your tools. This principle also holds true in the realm of BIOS modification. Thus, start by becoming acquainted with the modification tools. The tools needed to conduct an Award BIOS modification are as follows: 1. Disassembler: IDA Pro disassembler. A disassembler is used to comprehend the BIOS binary routine to find the right place to carry out the modification. The IDA Pro freeware version is available as a free download at http://www.dirfile.com/ida_pro_freeware_version.htm. 2. Hex editor: Hex Workshop version 4.23. The most beneficial feature of Hex Workshop is its capability to calculate checksums for the selected range of file that you open inside of it. You will use this tool to edit the BIOS binary. However, you can use another hex editor for the binary editing purposes. 3. Assembler: FASMW.1 FASMW is freeware and available for download at http://flatassembler.net in the download section. 4. Modbin. There are two types of modbin, modbin6 for Award BIOS version 6.00PG and modbin 4.50.xx for Award BIOS version 4.5xPG. You need this tool to look at the Award BIOS components and to modify the system BIOS. You can download it at http://www.biosmods.com in the download section. This tool also used to ensure that the checksum of the modified BIOS is corrected after the modification. Modbin is not needed if you don't want to do modification to the system BIOS. In this chapter, you need modbin because you are going to modify the system BIOS. 5. Cbrom. This tool is used to view the information about the components inside an Award BIOS binary. It's also used to add and remove components from the Award BIOS binary. Cbrom is available freely at http://www.biosmods.com in the download section. Note that there are many versions of Cbrom. I can't say exactly which one you should be using. Try the latest version if you are modifying Award BIOS version 6.00PG; otherwise, try an older version. Cbrom is not needed if you 1 The windows version of FASM. 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 386 Context: Chapter 10 Low-Level Remote Server Management PREVIEW You might not be aware of the presence of low-level remote access to x86 system hardware and firmware through software interfaces called the desktop management interface (DMI) and system management basic input/output system (SMBIOS). They were competing standards. DMI reached the end of its life cycle in 2005. Therefore, my explanation regarding these protocols focuses on SMBIOS. Nevertheless, some artifacts from the DMI era are still found in SMBIOS for compatibility reasons. The first section explains the SMBIOS interface, and the second section deals with the real-world implementation of the interface in a sample BIOS binary, along with a simple SMBIOS structure table parser. You also get a glimpse of Windows management instrumentation (WMI). 10.1. DMI and SMBIOS DMI and SMBIOS are standards developed and maintained by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). These standards are meant to take part in a software layer to provide seamless remote management for server and desktop machines. The purpose is to lower the total cost of ownership for organizations running various machines. The more machines an organization has, the greater the benefit it receives from being able to centralize the management tasks of the machines, such as monitoring machine performance and updating certain software. This machine management paradigm is termed Web-based enterprise management (WBEM) by the DMTF (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/). In this context, DMI or SMBIOS is only one of the software layers that provide management functions. Note that DMI has been deprecated and replaced by SMBIOS. Figure 10.1 shows a simplified logical architecture for a WBEM computing environment. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 280 Context: Chapter 9 Accessing BIOS within the Operating System PREVIEW In this chapter, you will learn to access the contents of a BIOS chip directly within an operating system, including the contents of the PCI expansion ROM chip. The first section explains the basic principles; the next sections delve into specific issues of the operating system and their corresponding interfaces. The chapter explores the proof of concept of this idea in Linux and Windows. 9.1. General Access Method Accessing the BIOS chip contents directly within a running operating system may seem like a tough job. It won't be as hard as you think. You can access and manipulate the BIOS chip directly within the operating system only if the chip is EEPROM or flash ROM. Fortunately; all motherboards since the late 1990s use one of these types of chip. Different operating systems have different software layers. However, the logical steps to access the BIOS contents within them remain almost the same. This is because of the programming model in x86 architecture. Most operating systems in x86 architecture use two privilege levels provided by the hardware to allow seamless access to system resources among applications. They are known as ring 0, or the kernel mode, and ring 3, or the user mode. Any software that runs in kernel mode is free to access and manipulate the hardware directly, including the BIOS chip. Thus, the general steps to access the BIOS chip in the motherboard directly within the operating system are as follows: 1. Enter kernel mode in the operating system. In most cases, you need to make an operating system–specific device driver in this step. You have to build a device driver for two reasons. First, the operating system will grant kernel-mode access only to device drivers. Second, in most cases, operating systems don't provide a well-defined software interface to manipulate the BIOS chip—if they even have such an interface. At first sight, it might seem that you have to use a different approach to provide access to manipulate the BIOS chip for a user-mode application in Linux and Windows through the device driver. However, this is not the case. Uniform software architecture works just fine. The basic purpose of the device driver is to provide direct access to the BIOS chip address space for the user mode application. As shown in a later section, you don't even need to build a device driver in Linux for this concept to work, because the Linux kernel provides access to the BIOS address space through the virtual file in /dev/mem. The basic method for "exporting" the BIOS chip address space to a user-mode application is as follows: #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 438 Context: Chapter 12 BIOS Rootkit Engineering PREVIEW In the previous chapters, you learned the basic techniques to interact with the firmware in the system. This chapter combines those techniques into the ultimate tool, the BIOS rootkit. I start by reviewing the history of BIOS exploitation, dissecting the legendary CIH virus, and then proceed to explaining how to devise a BIOS rootkit. The techniques that you learn in this chapter could be classified as "forbidden" techniques; in the ninjutsu realm they would be kinjutsu, or "forbidden" skills. The techniques I show here are only for experts because they are complicated, are risky, and can damage your system permanently. Don't try any of these techniques if you don't understand their mechanism in detail. You have been warned. 12.1. Looking Back through BIOS Exploitation History In the history of PC-based computing, there was one major virus outbreak on the PC BIOS, the CIH virus, written by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan. There were several variants of CIH. This section shows a snippet from source code of CIH version 1.5. It shows the method used by CIH to destroy the BIOS. I don't explain the infection method used by CIH in detail because the focus in this chapter is synthesizing a BIOS rootkit. The source code is available at http://vx.netlux.org/src_view.php?file=cih15.zip. This website has a search feature; you can use it to locate other versions of CIH source code. As with other viruses' code, CIH source code is twisted and hard to understand because it uses many indirect branching instructions. I show you the basic idea behind this virus before delving into its code snippets. The characteristics of CIH 1.5 are as follows: 1. It infects executable files, particularly the so-called portable executable (PE) file. In this context, PE files are 32-bit executable files that run on the Windows platform. 2. It modifies the interrupt descriptor table (IDT) with an exception handler entry that points to the custom exception handler routine in the virus code. 3. It raises an exception to enter kernel mode. The kernel mode code is in the virus's custom exception handler routine. 4. Characteristics 2 and 3 imply that the virus code must be able to modify IDT entries from user-mode code. Therefore, CIH cannot run in Windows versions based on an NT kernel, i.e., it cannot run in Windows NT/2000/XP because IDT is not accessible to user-mode code in these Windows versions. CIH can run only in Windows 9x operating systems because IDT can be modified from user-mode code in these operating systems. 5. In its exception handler, it installs a new file system hook in Windows 9x to infect executable files. This file system hook also contains code to destroy the system. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 528 Context: # 1. TCG Architecture Overview ![Figure 1.3 Steps in comprehending TCG standards implementation in PC architecture](figure1.3.png) Figure 1.3 shows that the first document you have to read is the **TCG Specification Architecture Overview**. Then, proceed to the platform-specific design guide document, which in this current context is the PC platform specification document. You have to consult the concepts explained in the **TPM main specification**, parts 1–4, and the TSS document while reading the PC platform specification document—the dashed blue arrows in Figure 1.3 mean "consult." You can download the **TCG Specification Architecture Overview** at [https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/TSS](https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/TSS) and the PC platform specification document is available for download at [https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/PCCLIENT](https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/PCCLIENT). The PC platform specification document consists of several files; the relevant ones are: - **TCG PC Client–Specific Implementation Specification for Conventional BIOS** (as of the writing of this book, the latest version of this document is 1.20 final) - **PC Client TPM Interface Specification FAQ** Reading these documents will give you a glimpse of the concepts of trusted computing and some details about its implementation in PC architecture. From here forward, I'll explain a bit more about the fundamental concept of **trusted computing** that is covered by the TCG standards. The **TCG Specification Architecture Overview** defines trust as the "expectation that a device will behave in a particular manner for a specific purpose." The advanced features that exist in a trusted platform are protected capabilities, integrity measurement, and integrity reporting. The focus is on the integrity measurement feature because this feature relates directly to the BIOS. As per the **TCG Specification Architecture Overview**, integrity measurement is "the process of obtaining metrics of platform characteristics that affect the integrity (trustworthiness) of a platform; storing those metrics; and putting disgests of those metrics in PCRs [platform configuration registers]." I'm not going to delve into this definition or the specifics about PCRs. Nonetheless, it's important to note that in the TCG standards for PC architecture, **core root of trust measurement (CRTM)** is synonymous with **BIOS boot block**. At this point, you have #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 541 Context: Part V Other Applications of BIOS Technology Chapter 14 Embedded x86 BIOS Technology PREVIEW This chapter delves into the use of x86 BIOS technology outside of its traditional implementation—desktop PC and servers. It presents a glimpse of the implementation of x86 BIOS technology in network appliances and consumer electronic devices. This theme is interesting because x86 architecture will soon penetrate almost every sector of our lives—not as PC desktops or servers but as embedded systems. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been realizing its vision of x86 everywhere since 2005. Moreover, as our lives increasingly depend on this architecture, the security of its BIOS becomes increasingly important. Therefore, this chapter presents an overview about that issue as well. 14.1. Embedded x86 BIOS Architecture The embedded system theme sometimes scares programmers who haven't venture into this class of computing devices. Programmers accustomed to desktop and server development often view programming for embedded devices as an exotic task. However, as you will soon see, embedded devices based on x86 architecture share a fair number of similarities with their desktop or server counterparts. Thus, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to programming for embedded systems. Let me start with the boot process of embedded x86 systems. Embedded x86 systems can be classified into two types based on their boot process, i.e., those that boot into an operating system stored in a secondary storage device1 and those that boot into an operating system stored as part of the BIOS. Figures 14.1 and 14.2 show the typical boot process for each type. 1 A secondary storage device is a mass storage device such as an HDD or a CompactFlash drive. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 569 Context: Chapter 15 What’s Next PREVIEW This chapter talks about the future of BIOS technology. It is an industry insight into future trends in BIOS technology, including security related issue. Some of the BIOS-related technologies in this chapter probably have reached the market. Nevertheless, it’s not widespread yet. Moreover, the future trends in embedded x86 BIOS technology is also explained briefly. 15.1. The Future of BIOS Technology This section talks about advances in BIOS technology. The first subsection explains the basics of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). UEFI is the specification that must be met by future firmware in order to be compatible with future computing ecosystem—operating system, hardware and various other system components. Some of today’s products have adhered to the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) specification—the predecessor to UEFI. The second subsection delves into vendor-specific implementation of the UEFI specification; it highlights the future roadmap of BIOS-related development. 15.1.1. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) The UEFI specification was born as the successor to EFI specification version 1.10. It was born to cope with the inability of the current BIOS to scale and adapt efficiently with the current advances in desktop, server, mobile and embedded platforms technology, particularly, in terms of development complexity and cost efficiency. The most recent specification of UEFI as of the writing of this book is UEFI specification version 2.0, released in 31 January 2006. You can download the specification at http://www.uefi.org/specs/. UEFI is an interface specification between the operating system and the firmware in the system—during system boot and as well as during runtime if the firmware possesses runtime routines. Figure 15.1 shows the simplified concept of an UEFI-compliant system. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 106 Context: 4.4. BIOS Disassembling with IDA Pro You obtained enough skills in chapter 2 to use IDA Pro efficiently, and you know from previous sections the big picture of the BIOS binary structure. In this part, I provide you with the basic steps to carry out systematic BIOS reverse engineering based on that knowledge. Disassembling a BIOS is stepping through the first instructions that the processor executes. Thus, the following steps are guidelines: 1. Start the disassembling in the reset vector of the processor. The reset vector is the address of the first instruction that a processor executes. In the case of x86, it is 0xFFFF_0000. 2. From the reset vector, follow through the boot block execution paths. One path will end with a hang; this is where an error is found during boot block execution. Look for the path that doesn't end with a hang. The latter path will guide you through the system BIOS decompression process and will jump into the system BIOS once the boot block finished. You can emulate the decompression process by using IDA Pro scripts or plugins. Alternatively, if the decompressor for the compressed BIOS components is available, it can be used to decompress the system BIOS; then the decompressed system BIOS is integrated into the current IDA Pro disassembly database. 3. Follow the system BIOS execution until you find the POST execution. In some BIOSs, the POST execution consists of jump tables. You just need to follow the execution of this jump table to be able to see the big picture. The preceding steps are applicable to any type of BIOS or other x86 firmware that replaces the functionality of the BIOS, such as in routers or kiosks based on embedded x86 hardware. 30 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 64 Context: Chapter 3 BIOS-Related Software Development Preliminary PREVIEW This chapter explains the prerequisite knowledge you need in the development of BIOS-related software, particularly BIOS patch and PCI expansion ROMs. The first section explains how to build a flat binary file from assembly language code. Later sections focus on how to use the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) facility to build a flat binary file. GCC linker script and its role in the development of flat binary files are explained. 3.1. BIOS-Related Software Development with Pure Assembler Every system programmer realizes that BIOS is "bare metal" software. It interfaces directly with the machine, with no layer between the BIOS and the silicon. Thus, any code that will be inserted into the BIOS, such as a new patch or a custom-built patch, must be provided in flat binary form. Flat binary means there's no executable file format, headers, etc., only bare machine codes and self-contained data. Nevertheless, there's an exception to this rule: expansion ROM has a predefined header format that must be adhered to. This section shows how to generate a flat binary file from an assembly language file by using the netwide assembler (NASM) and flat assembler (FASM). Start with NASM. NASM is a free assembler and available for download at http://nasm.sourceforge.net. NASM is available for both Windows and Linux. It's quite powerful and more than enough for now. Listing 3.1 shows a sample source code in NASM of a patch I injected into my BIOS. Listing 3.1 Sample BIOS Patch in NASM Syntax ; --------------- BEGIN TWEAK.ASM -------------------------------- BITS 16 ; To make sure NASM adds the 66 prefix to 32-bit instructions section .text start: pushf push eax push dx mov eax,ioq_reg ; Patch the ioq register of the chipset mov dx,in_port out dx,eax mov dx,out_port in eax,dx or eax,ioq_mask out dx,eax 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 213 Context: Figure 6.3 shows the commands applicable to cbrom. Displaying the options or help in cbrom is just like in DOS days; just type /? to see the options and their explanation. Now, get into a little over-the-edge cbrom usage. Remove and reinsert the system BIOS extension in Iwill VD133 BIOS. This BIOS is based on Award BIOS version 4.50PG code. Thus, its system BIOS extension is decompressed into segment 4100h during POST, not to segment 1000h as you saw in chapter 5, when you reverse engineered Award BIOS. Here is an example of how to release the system BIOS extension from this particular BIOS binary using cbrom in a windows console: E:\BIOS_M~1>CBROM207.EXE VD30728.BIN /other 4100:0 release CBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved. [Other] ROM is release E:\BIOS_M~1> Note that the system BIOS extension is listed as the "other" component. Now, see how you insert the system BIOS extension back to the BIOS binary: E:\BIOS_M~1>CBROM207.EXE VD30728.BIN /other 4100:0 awardext.rom CBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved. Adding awardext.rom .. 66.7% E:\BIOS_M~1> So far, I've been playing with cbrom. The rest is just more exercise to become accustomed with it. Proceed to the last tool, the chipset datasheet. Reading a datasheet is not a trivial task for a beginner to hardware hacking. The first thing to read is the table of contents. However, I will show you a systematic approach to reading the chipset datasheet efficiently: 1. Go to the table of contents and notice the location of the chipset block diagram. The block diagram is the first thing that you must comprehend to become accustomed to the chipset datasheet. And one more thing to remember: you have to be acquainted with the bus protocol, or at least know the configuration mechanism, that the chipset uses. 2. Look for the system address map for the particular chipset. This will lead you to system-specific resources and other important information regarding the address space and I/O space usage in the system. 3. Finally, look for the chipset register setting explanation. The chipset register setting will determine the overall performance of the motherboard when the BIOS has been executed. When a bug occurs in a motherboard, it's often the chipset register value initialization that causes the trouble. You may want to look for additional information. In that case, just proceed on your own. 5 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 410 Context: # Chapter 11 BIOS Security Measures ## PREVIEW This chapter talks about security measures implemented in the BIOS and security measures of the operating system level related to the BIOS. The security measures come in the form of password protection, BIOS component integrity checks, operating system-level protection, and hardware-based security measures. The component integrity check is not meant to be a security measure by BIOS vendors. Nevertheless, it has accidentally become one against random code injection to the BIOS binary. ### 11.1. Password Protection The BIOS provides a mechanism that uses passwords to protect the PC from unauthorized usage and BIOS configuration changes. Some BIOS implement two types of passwords: user password and supervisor password. In some motherboards, there is additional control over this password under BIOS's Advanced BIOS Features menu in the **Security Option** setting. The **Security Option** setting consists of two selectable options, the **System Option** and the **Setup Option**. If you set the **Security Option to System**, BIOS will ask you for a password upon boot. If you set the **Security Option to Setup**, BIOS will ask you for password when you enter the BIOS setup menu. As for the user and supervisor passwords, I haven't found any differences between them. Only the **Security Option** setting shows a difference in a password authentication request in my motherboard, although yours may differ. Figure 11.1 shows the BIOS security option setting for my motherboard. ![BIOS Security Option](path/to/image) 1. DFI 865PE Infinity revision 1.1; the BIOS date is December 28, 2004. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 210 Context: only modify the system BIOS and don't touch the other components in the Award BIOS binary. 6. Chipset datasheets. They are needed if you want to build a patch for the corresponding chipset setting. Otherwise, you don't need it. For the purpose of the sample modification in this chapter, you need the VIA 693A datasheet. It's available for download at http://www.rom.by in the PDF section. There is one more BIOS tool resource on the Internet that I haven't mention. It's called Borg number one's BIOS tool collection, or BNOBTC for short. It is the most complete BIOS tool collection online. However, its uniform resource locator (URL) sometimes moves from one host to another. Thus, you may want to use Google to find its latest URL. You learned about the IDA Pro disassembler, FASM, and hex editor in the previous chapters. Thus, modbin, cbrom, and the chipset datasheet remain. I explore them one by one. Start with modbin. Modbin is a console-based utility to manipulate Award system BIOS. You know that there are two flavors of modbin, one for each Award BIOS version. However, the usage of these tools are similar, just load the BIOS file into modbin and modify the system BIOS with it. Moreover, there is one "undocumented feature" of modbin that's useful for BIOS modification purposes: during modbin execution; when you start to modify the BIOS binary that's currently loaded, modbin will generate some temporary files. These temporary files are Award BIOS components. They are extracted by modbin from the BIOS binary file. Each of the two types of modbin generates different kinds of temporary files. However, both versions extract the system BIOS. Both also pack all temporary files into one valid Award BIOS binary when you save changes in modbin. Here are the details: 1. Modbin version 4.50.80C extracts the following components from an Award BIOS version 4.50PG binary: a. Bios.rom. It is the compressed version of last 128 KB of the BIOS file. It contains the compressed original.tmp, the boot block, and the decompression block. b. Original.tmp. It is the decompressed system BIOS. The execution of modbin 4.50.80C is shown in figure 6.1. 2 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 97 Context: ```markdown ![Figure 4.7 Typical BIOS binary logical view within the system address map](image_link) You learned in previous sections that x86 systems start execution at address `0xFFFF_FFF0`. In figure 4.7, it is located in the boot block area. This area is the uncompressed part of the BIOS binary. Hence, the processor can directly execute the code located there. Other areas in the BIOS chip are occupied by padding bytes, compressed BIOS components, and some checksums. This is the general structure of modern-day BIOS, regardless of vendor. The boot block contains the code used to verify the checksums of the compressed BIOS components and the code used to decompress them. The boot block also contains early hardware testing and initialization code. The part of the BIOS that takes care of most initialization tasks, i.e., POST, is called the system BIOS. In Award BIOS, this component is sometimes called `original.img` by BIOS hackers because of the name of the compressed system BIOS. The system BIOS is jumped into by the boot block after the boot block finishes its task. Note that the system BIOS manages other compressed BIOS components during its execution. It does so by decompressing, relocating, and executing the decompressed version of those components as needed. ### 4.3 Software Peculiarities There are some tricky areas in the BIOS code because of the execution of some of its parts in ROM. I present some of my findings here. ``` #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: PrefaceItcanbetremendouslydifficultforanoutsidertounderstandwhycomputerscientistsareinterestedinComputerScience.Itiseasytoseethesenseofwonderoftheastrophysicist,oroftheevolutionarybiologistorzoologist.Wedon’tknowtoomuchaboutthemathe-matician,butweareinaweanyway.ButComputerScience?Well,wesupposeitmusthavetodowithcomputers,atleast.“Com-puterscienceisnomoreaboutcomputersthanastronomyisabouttelescopes”,thegreatDutchcomputerscientistEdsgerDijkstra(1930–2002),wrote.Thatistosay,thecomputerisourtoolforex-ploringthissubjectandforbuildingthingsinitsworld,butitisnottheworlditself.Thisbookmakesnoattemptatcompletenesswhatever.Itis,asthesubtitlesuggests,asetoflittlesketchesoftheuseofcomputersciencetoaddresstheproblemsofbookproduction.Bylookingfromdifferentanglesatinterestingchallengesandprettysolutions,wehopetogainsomeinsightintotheessenceofthething.Ihopethat,bytheend,youwillhavesomeunderstandingofwhythesethingsinterestcomputerscientistsand,perhaps,youwillfindthatsomeoftheminterestyou.vii #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 112 Context: in compressed state. The compressed component preceding awardext.rom is the compressed system BIOS, and the byte highlighted in pink is a custom checksum that follows the end-of-file marker for this compressed system BIOS. Other compressed components always end up with an end-of-file marker, and no checksum byte precedes the next compressed component in the BIOS binary. Proceed to the pure binary component of the Foxconn BIOS. The mapping of this pure binary component inside the hex editor as follows: 1. 6_A9C0h–6_BFFEh: The decompression block. This routine contains the LZH decompression engine 2. 7_E000h–7_FFFFh: This area contains the boot block code. Between of the pure binary components lay padding bytes. Some padding bytes re FFh bytes, and some are 00h bytes. Reverse Engineering e engineering. The boot BIOS. Understanding the reverse boot block is valuable, because these ifferent vendors. From this point on, I assemble the boot block routines. Now, I'll present some obscure and important areas of of the Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 you learned how to start ation here. All you have t the initial load address to 8_0000h–FFFh. Then, create new segments at FFF8_0000h–FFFD_FFFFh and relocate the h to that newly created segment to mimic the mapping of the dress map. You can use the IDA Pro script in listing 5.1 to e IDA Pro add the o make it a standalone script in an ASCII file, . a 5.1.2. Award Boot Block This section delves into the mechanics of boot block reversblock is the key into overall insight of the motherboard engineering tricks needed to reverse engineer thehniques tend to be applicable to BIOS from dtecisdthe BIOS code in the disassembled boot block motherboard BIOS dated November 11, 2005. In section 2.3 assembling a BIOS file with IDA Pro. I won't repeat that informdisto do is open the 512-KB file in IDA Pro and seF_Fcontents of 8_0000h–D_FFFFstem adBIOS binary in the syaccomplish this operation. The script in listing 5.1 must be executed directly in thrkspace scripting window that's called with Shift+F2 shortcut. You canwoappropriate include statements if you wish tas you learned in chapter 2 Listing 5.1 IDA Pro Relocation Script for Award BIOS with a 512-KB File auto ea, ea_src, ea_dest; /* Create segments for the currently loaded binary */ for(ea=0x80000; ea<0x100000; ea = ea+0x10000) { SegCreate(ea, ea+0x10000, ea>>4, 0,0,0); } /* Create new segments for relocation */ 6 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 519 Context: Chapter 13 BIOS Defense Techniques PREVIEW The previous chapters explained BIOS-related security issues mainly from the attackers' point of view. This chapter dwells on the opposite point of view, that of the defenders. The focuses are on the prevention and mitigation of BIOS-related attacks. I start with the prevention method and then advance to the mitigation methods to heal systems that have been compromised by BIOS-related attack techniques. 13.1. Prevention Methods This section explains the methods to prevent an attacker from implanting a BIOS-based rootkit in your system. As you learned in the previous chapters, there are two kinds of subsystems that can be attacked by a BIOS-based rootkit, the motherboard BIOS and the PCI expansion ROM. I start with the motherboard BIOS and proceed to the PCI expansion ROM issue. 13.1.1. Hardware-Based Security Measures Recall from section 11.4 in chapter 11 that there is a hardware-based security measure in the motherboard BIOS chip to prevent an attacker from altering its contents. Certain registers in the BIOS chip—the BLRs—can prevent access to the BIOS chip, and their value cannot be changed after the BIOS initializes them,1 meaning that only changing the BIOS setup would change the status of the hardware-based protection. Therefore, the attacker needs physical access to the system to disable the protection. Nonetheless, there is a flaw to this prevention mechanism. If the default value of the BIOS setting in the BIOS code disables this protection, there is a possibility that the attacker can invalidate the values inside the CMOS chip remotely—within the running operating system—and restart the machine remotely afterward to disable the hardware-level protection. This happens because most machines force loading of the default value of the BIOS setting if the checksum of values in the CMOS is invalid. Before proceeding, a comparison study among flash ROM chips used as the BIOS chip in the motherboard is important because you need to know the nature of the implementation of the hardware-level protection. I presented the hardware-based protection example in chapter 11 with the Winbond W39V040FA chip. Now, look at another sample from a 1 Once the lock-down bit in the chip is activated, the state of the write-protection mechanism cannot be changed before the next boot or reboot. This doesn't imply that you can change the write-protection mechanism in the next reboot. For example, if the lock-down bit initialization is carried out by the BIOS, you cannot change the state of the write protection unless you change the BIOS. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 107 Context: # Chapter 5 Implementation of Motherboard BIOS ## PREVIEW This chapter explains how the BIOS vendor implements BIOS. It researches the compression algorithm used by BIOS vendors and the formats of the compressed components inside the BIOS binary. It also dissects several BIOS binary files from different vendors so that you can discover their internal structure. ## 5.1 Award BIOS This section dissects an Award BIOS binary. Use the BIOS for the Foxconn 955XAA-REKRS2 motherboard as a sample implementation. Its Award BIOS version 6.00PG dated November 11, 2005. The size of the BIOS is 4 Mb/512 KB. ### 5.1.1 Award BIOS File Structure An Award BIOS file consists of several components. Some of them are LZH level-1 compressed. You can recognize them by looking at the `-lh5-` signature in the beginning of that component by using a hex editor. An example is presented in hex dump 5.1. #### Hex dump 5.1 Compressed Award BIOS Component Sample | Address | Hex | ASCII | |-------------|-------------------------------|--------------------| | 00000000 | 252E 426C 6835 2B5 3A00 0C00 5700 0000 | .-lh5-...-.N.. | | 00000010 | 0000 4120 010C 6172 6465 7874 2272 | Z..-.AwardEx.r | | 00000020 | 6F6D 0B74 2000 002C FB8E FB9F D823 4998 | o... | Besides the compressed components, there are pure 16-bit x86 binary components. Award BIOS execution begins in one of these pure binary components. The general structure of a typical Award BIOS binary is as follows: - **Boot block.** The boot block is a pure binary component; thus, it's not compressed. The processor starts execution in this part of the BIOS. - **Decompression block.** This is a pure binary component. Its role is to carry out the decompression process for the compressed BIOS components. 1. Pure binary refers to the component that is not compressed. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 481 Context: 12.2. Hijacking the System BIOS There are plenty of possibilities to implement a BIOS rootkit. I explain one of them in this section. I won't go so far as to provide you with a working proof of concept because of the limited space in this book. However, I provide pointers to relevant articles that will guide you through the internals of the rootkit. Implementing the rootkit in the BIOS should be a trivial task after you've grasped the concept in this chapter. It's also important to note that there's the possibility that a BIOS cannot be injected with a rootkit because it doesn't have enough free space for the rootkit—even if the rootkit code is compressed. Building a BIOS rootkit simply means injecting your code into the BIOS to conceal your presence in the target system. You learned the basic concept of BIOS code injection in chapter 6. In that chapter, you injected your custom code through the POST jump table. The code injection method in this section is a bit different; some mix that technique with redirection technique known as detour patching. The main target of the code injection is not the POST jump table but the BIOS interrupt handler. BIOS interrupt handlers in some cases are twisted routines. Their initializations are carried out during both boot block code execution and main system BIOS execution. I explain in this section how to traverse the BIOS disassembly database for Award BIOS version 4.51PG code to find the "interesting" BIOS interrupt handlers and their initialization. As you will see in the next subsection, this method also works for Award BIOS version 6.00PG. The last subsection in this section explains the issue of implementing the rootkit development method in Award BIOS to the BIOS from other vendors. The technique explained here is derived from the technique explained in the eEye BootRoot rootkit. The BootRoot4 rootkit works much like the boot sector virus back in the nineties. Its basic idea is to hijack the operating system loading process by using a modified boot sector—modifying the kernel in the process to conceal the presence of the remote attacker. As you may have known, the loading of the Windows XP kernel is not a single-stage process. The typical booting process for new technology file system–based (NTFS-based) Windows XP installation in the hard drive is shown in figure 12.5. Note that if Windows XP is installed on a 32-bit file allocation table (FAT32) partition, the booting process is more complicated and is not well represented in figure 12.5. Nevertheless, the basic principles are the same. 4 For more information on the BootRoot rootkit, read http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-05/bh-us-05-soeder.pdf. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: ivPREFACEabout60%correcton100categories),thefactthatwepullitoffseeminglyeffort-lesslyservesasa“proofofconcept”thatitcanbedone.Butthereisnodoubtinmymindthatbuildingtrulyintelligentmachineswillinvolvelearningfromdata.Thefirstreasonfortherecentsuccessesofmachinelearningandthegrowthofthefieldasawholeisrootedinitsmultidisciplinarycharacter.MachinelearningemergedfromAIbutquicklyincorporatedideasfromfieldsasdiverseasstatis-tics,probability,computerscience,informationtheory,convexoptimization,con-troltheory,cognitivescience,theoreticalneuroscience,physicsandmore.Togiveanexample,themainconferenceinthisfieldiscalled:advancesinneuralinformationprocessingsystems,referringtoinformationtheoryandtheoreticalneuroscienceandcognitivescience.Thesecond,perhapsmoreimportantreasonforthegrowthofmachinelearn-ingistheexponentialgrowthofbothavailabledataandcomputerpower.Whilethefieldisbuildontheoryandtoolsdevelopedstatisticsmachinelearningrecog-nizesthatthemostexitingprogresscanbemadetoleveragetheenormousfloodofdatathatisgeneratedeachyearbysatellites,skyobservatories,particleaccel-erators,thehumangenomeproject,banks,thestockmarket,thearmy,seismicmeasurements,theinternet,video,scannedtextandsoon.Itisdifficulttoap-preciatetheexponentialgrowthofdatathatoursocietyisgenerating.Togiveanexample,amodernsatellitegeneratesroughlythesameamountofdataallprevioussatellitesproducedtogether.Thisinsighthasshiftedtheattentionfromhighlysophisticatedmodelingtechniquesonsmalldatasetstomorebasicanaly-sisonmuchlargerdata-sets(thelattersometimescalleddata-mining).Hencetheemphasisshiftedtoalgorithmicefficiencyandasaresultmanymachinelearningfaculty(likemyself)cantypicallybefoundincomputersciencedepartments.Togivesomeexamplesofrecentsuccessesofthisapproachonewouldonlyhavetoturnononecomputerandperformaninternetsearch.Modernsearchenginesdonotrunterriblysophisticatedalgorithms,buttheymanagetostoreandsiftthroughalmosttheentirecontentoftheinternettoreturnsensiblesearchresults.Therehasalsobeenmuchsuccessinthefieldofmachine #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 428 Context: 11.3. Remote Server Management Security Measures As you learned in chapter 10, low-level remote machine management is never carried out outside of an operating system context. Even when the remote machine is running as remote program loader machine, there is still some kind of operating system in charge of the system locally to serve the remote management software. In this section, I focus on a widely used remote management interface: WMI. The varieties of UNIX don't have a unified approach in implementing WBEM, that's why I'm just talking about WMI at this point. The talk focuses on its security measures against remote attacks. I'm not talking about SMBIOS because it has no security measures other than administrator account protection. In chapter 10, I demonstrated that you can parse the SMBIOS information at your will once you have obtained the administrator privilege. WMI has a two-level security measure. The first level is operating system–level authentication that asks the user for Windows logon information, and the second level is a namespace-level security measure. A user who has logged into a machine in an enterprise network will be granted to access WMI information within that computing environment only to his or her assigned namespace. The same is true for a remote WMI application. A WMI application cannot access WMI procedure or data in a remote machine outside of the context of the namespaces granted by the remote machine when the application sets up a connection to the remote machine. The context of the namespaces depends on the login information given to the remote machine by the WMI application. Therefore, from an attacker's point of view, it's difficult to break the security measure of a WMI application because it's using a two-level security measure. Nonetheless, because WMI and Internet information services are tightly connected, the weak point often attacked as an entry point is Internet information services. This is especially true because WMI has a scripting front end that has some known bugs. A security breach in a WMI application is dangerous because it can grant unlimited access to the entire network within an organization and provide the attacker with feature-rich remote control over the organization resources. Even if the attacker only obtains that access for a while, he or she can implant a backdoor anywhere in the organization to ensure future access to the organization's resources. 11.4. Hardware-Based Security Measures Hardware-based security measures can be effective against BIOS tampering. In this section, I explain the internal security measures in the BIOS chip. Some BIOS chips have internal registers to control read and write access to its content. For example, the Winbond W39V040FA11 series of flash ROM chip has internal registers known as block locking registers (BLRs). These registers are able to block read and write access to the chip entirely, making the chip inaccessible even from low-level 11 You can search for and download the datasheet of this chip at http://www.alldatasheet.com. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 573 Context: # System Execution Modes - **Uniprocessor** - **Protected mode** - **Paging mode not enabled** - **Selectors are set flat and are otherwise not used** - **Interrupts are enabled—though no interrupt services are supported other than the UEFI boot services timer functions (All loaded device drivers are served synchronously by "polling.")** - **Direction flag in EFLAGS is clear** - **Other general purpose registers are undefined** - 128 KB or more, of available stack space An application written to the specification may alter the processor execution mode, but the UEFI image must ensure firmware boot services and runtime services are executed with the prescribed execution environment. ## 2.3.4 x64 Platforms All functions are called with C calling convention. During boot services time, the processor is in the following execution mode: - **Uniprocessor** - **Long mode, 64-bit mode** - **Paging mode is enabled and any memory space defined by the UEFI memory map is identically mapped (virtual address equals physical address). The mappings to other regions are undefined and may vary from implementation to implementation.** - **Selectors are set flat and are otherwise not used** - **Interrupts are enabled—though no interrupt services are supported other than the UEFI boot services timer functions (All loaded device drivers are served synchronously by "polling.")** - **Direction flag in EFLAGS is clear** - **Other general purpose registers are undefined** - 128 KB or more, of available stack space There is more to the UEFI specification than what I've explained so far. Nonetheless, I can give you some pointers to understand the specification more easily. The specification is more than a thousand pages long. It's hard to grasp without a "roadmap." The key to the specification is in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of UEFI specification, especially section 1.5, UEFI design overview and all of the sections in Chapter 2 of UEFI specification. Once you have grasped those sections, you are ready to delve into the next sections that you are interested in. This concludes this subsection. In the next subsection, I present some implementation of the EFI/UEFI from two major firmware vendors, AMI and Phoenix Technologies. #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 9 Context: ixChapter7introducesmoreprogramming,ofaslightlydifferentkind.Webeginbyseeinghowcomputerprogramscalculatesimplesums,followingthefamiliarschoolboyrules.Wethenbuildmorecomplicatedthingsinvolvingtheprocessingoflistsofitems.Bythenendofthechapter,wehavewrittenasubstantive,real,program.Chapter8addressestheproblemofreproducingcolourorgreytoneimagesusingjustblackinkonwhitepaper.Howcanwedothisconvincinglyandautomatically?Welookathistori-calsolutionstothisproblemfrommedievaltimesonwards,andtryoutsomedifferentmodernmethodsforourselves,comparingtheresults.Chapter9looksagainattypefaces.Weinvestigatetheprincipaltypefaceusedinthisbook,Palatino,andsomeofitsintricacies.Webegintoseehowlettersarelaidoutnexttoeachothertoformalineofwordsonthepage.Chapter10showshowtolayoutapagebydescribinghowlinesoflettersarecombinedintoparagraphstobuildupablockoftext.Welearnhowtosplitwordswithhyphensattheendoflineswithoutugliness,andwelookathowthissortoflayoutwasdonebeforecomputers. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 559 Context: The simplified diagram in figure 14.10 of the listing 14.1 algorithm doesn't show all possible routes to execute the routines in the etBIOS routine. It only shows the most important route that will eventually execute etBIOS module in the Acorp 4865GQET BIOS. Listing 14.1 also shows a call to an undefined function that is apparently a decompression function. (I haven't completed for you the reverse engineering in that function.) From this fact, you can conclude that even if the etBIOS module is not stored as an LZH-compressed component in the overall BIOS binary, it's still using a compression scheme that it employs itself. Another fact that may help you complete the reverse engineering of the etBIOS module is the existence of the GCC string shown in hex dump 14.3. Hex dump 14.3 GCC String in etBIOS Binary from the Acorp 4865GQET Motherboard Address Hex values ASCII ........ 000011D0 0047 4343 3A20 2847 4E55 2920 6567 6373 .GCC: (GNU) egcs 000011E0 2D32 2E39 312E 3636 2031 3939 3930 3331 -2.91.66 1999031 000011F0 342F 4C69 6E75 7820 2865 6763 732D 312E 4/Linux (egcs-1. 00001200 312E 3220 7265 6C65 6173 6529 0008 0000 1.2 release).... 00001210 0000 0000 0001 0000 0030 312E 3031 0000 .........01.01.. ........ The address in hex dump 14.3 is relative to the beginning of the etBIOS binary. You can "cut and paste" the etBIOS binary by using the information from its LZH header. Recall from table 5.2 in subsection 5.1.2.7 that the LZH header contains information about the "compressed" file size, along with the length of the "compressed" file header. You can use this information to determine the start and end of the etBIOS module and then copy and paste it to a new binary file by using a hex editor. This step simplifies the etBIOS analysis process. In sections 3.2 and 7.3, you learn about BIOS-related software development. Some techniques that you learn in those sections are applicable to embedded x86 software development and the reverse engineering of embedded x86 systems. Of particular importance is the linker script technique described in section 3.2. By using a linker script, you can control the output of GCC. Inferring from the linker script technique that you learned in section 3.2, you can conclude that the binary file that forms the etBIOS module possibly is a result of using a linker script, or at least using GCC tricks. This hint can help you complete etBIOS reverse engineering. Many embedded x86 system developers are using GCC as their compiler of choice because of its versatility. Thus, it's not surprising that Elegent Technologies also uses it in the development of its etBIOS and related products. Now, you likely have grasped the basics of PC-based STB. In the next subsection, I delve into network appliances based on embedded x86 technologies. 14.2.2. Network Appliance #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 224 Context: binary contains more code than the data section, even though they overlap. Thus, finding a byte pattern is quite easy, because x86 instruction bytes have particular rules that must be adhered to, just like other processor architectures. In addition, it's natural not to waste precious space in RAM and a BIOS chip by repeating the same group of instructions. This space-saving technique is accomplished by forming a procedure or routine for a group of instructions that will be invoked from another section of the binary. This provides the huge possibility to find a unique group of instructions, a byte pattern, within the binary because it means that they are rarely repeated. The task of forming a new signature is not too hard. These are the "algorithm": 1. Find the interesting procedure with a disassembler. 2. Observe the instruction groups that make up the procedure and note their equivalent hexadecimal values. 3. Find some bytes, i.e., a few instructions lumped as a group as the "initial guess" for the signature. Search for other possibilities of occurrence of the initial guess in the binary with a hex editor. If the group occurs more than once, add some instruction bytes into the initial guess and repeat until only one occurrence is found in the binary. Voila, the signature is formed. Once you have formed the signature, the task of patching the system BIOS file is task. You can even build a "patcher" to automate the process. To be able to locate a specific procedure to patch, you have to know something about it; this allows you to make an intelligent guess about its location. In a Windows binary file, a call to certain operating system function is the necessary hint. For BIOS binary, here are a few tips: 1. If you are looking for an I/O-related procedure, start by looking for "suspicious" access to the particular I/O port. It's better to know the protocol that's supposed to be used by the I/O port in advance. For example, if you want to find the chipset initialization routine, start looking for accesses to the PCI configuration address port (CF8h–CFBh) and data port (CFCh–CFFh). That's because access to the chipset is through PCI configuration cycles. In addition, if you want to look for the IDE device initialization routines, you have to start looking for accesses to ports 1F0h–1F7h and 170h–177h. 2. Some devices are mapped to some predefined memory address range. For example, the VGA frame buffer is mapped to B_0000h or B_8000h. These are quirks you must know. 3. By using the BIOS POST code8 as a reference, you can crosscheck an output to the POST code port, i.e., port 80h with the routine you are looking for. During BIOS execution, a lot of POST code is written to port 80h, and each POST code 8 POST code in this context is not the POST routine but the hexadecimal value written to port 80h that can be displayed in a specialized expansion card called the POST card. 16 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 281 Context: a. Map the physical address range of the BIOS chip, i.e., the address space near the 4-GB limit to the virtual address space of the process1 that will access the BIOS chip. b. Create a pointer to the beginning of the mapped BIOS chip in the process's virtual address space. c. Use the pointer in the previous step to manipulate the contents of the BIOS chip directly from the user-mode application. This means you can use an indirection operator to read the contents of the chip. However, for a write operation, there are some prerequisites because a BIOS chip is ROM. The same is true for BIOS chip erase operation. 2. Perform hardware-specific steps to access and manipulate the BIOS chip contents. In this step, you need to know the details of the hardware method for accessing the BIOS chip. This method is explained in the chipset datasheet and the BIOS chip datasheet. Generally, the hardware method is a series of steps as follows: a. Configure the chipset registers to enable read and write access to the BIOS chip address space. In x86, the BIOS chip address space is located near the 4-GB limit. Usually, the chipset registers that control access to the BIOS chip are located in the southbridge. b. Probe the BIOS chip in some predefined addresses to read the manufacturer identification bytes and the chip identification bytes. These identification bytes are needed to determine the method you should use to access the contents of the BIOS chip. Note that every BIOS chip manufacturer has its own command set to access the contents of the chip. Some commands have been standardized by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. c. Write and read the binary to and from the chip according to manufacturer's specification. This is the big picture of the method that you have to use to access and manipulate the BIOS contents within operating system. The next sections delve into operating system–specific implementations of the concepts. 9.2. Accessing Motherboard BIOS Contents in Linux You learned about general direct access to the BIOS chip within an operating system in section 9.1. As a proof of concept, I show you how to perform this task in Linux. I conduct the experiment in an Iwill VD133 motherboard. This motherboard is old, from 2000. I chose it for two reasons. First, I want to show you that even in an old motherboard this task can be performed. Second, because this motherboard is old enough, its datasheets are available free of charge on the Internet.2 You need the chipset datasheet and its BIOS 1 Process in this context means an instance of a currently running user-mode application. 2 Datasheets for Intel chipsets and AMD chipsets are usually available for download upon of the introduction of the chipset to the market. This is not the case for chipsets made by VIA, Nvidia, SiS, and many other manufacturers. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 485 Context: # 12.2.1. Hijacking Award BIOS 4.51PG Interrupt Handlers The BIOS binary that I dissect in this subsection is v30728.bin. This is the latest BIOS for the Iwill D1133 motherboard, released in 2000. You can download the binary at [http://www.iwill.net/product_legacy.jsp?pa=V1333BT-S2&MD=26&Value=60](http://www.iwill.net/product_legacy.jsp?pa=V1333BT-S2&MD=26&Value=60). This binary is placed inside a self-decompressing file, v30728.exe. Remember, this BIOS is an Award BIOS binary based on Award BIOS 4.51PG code. There are two kinds of interrupts in the x86 platform, hardware interrupts and software interrupts. The processor views both kinds of interrupts in almost the same fashion. The difference is that the programmable interrupt controller (PIC) prioritizes hardware interrupts before reaching the processor interrupt line, whereas software interrupts don't have such a prioritizing mechanism. Interrupts 13 and 21 are software interrupts. Nonetheless, you have to track down the interrupt-related initialization from the hardware interrupt initialization to grasp the overall view of BIOS interrupt handling. In most cases, the BIOS code disables the interrupt before the hardware-related interrupt initialization is finished. The overview of BIOS interrupts is shown in table 12.1. | Interrupt Number (Hex) | Description | |-------------------------|---------------------------------| | 00–01 | Exception handlers | | 02 | Nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) | | 03–07 | Exception handlers | | 08 | Interrupt request (IRQ) 0; system timer | | 09 | IRQ 1; keyboard | | 0A | IRQ 2; redirected to IRQ 9 | | 0B | IRQ 3; serial port, i.e., COM2/COM4 | | 0C | IRQ 4; serial port, i.e., COM1/COM3 | | 0D | IRQ 5; reserved/sound card | | 0E | IRQ 6; floppy disk controller | | 0F | IRQ 7; parallel port, i.e., LPT1 | | 10–6F | Software interrupt | | 70 | IRQ 8; real-time clock | | 71 | IRQ 9; redirected IRQ2 | | 72 | IRQ 10; reserved | #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 164 Context: routine in advance. If the binary signature14 is known, you can directly scan the target binary to find the routine. I delve more into this issue in the BIOS modification chapter. 5.2. AMI BIOS In this section, I dissect a sample AMI BIOS binary based on AMI BIOS code version 8 (AMIBIOS8). AMI BIOS comes in several code bases. However, since 2002 AMI BIOS uses this version of the code base. The code base version is recognized by inspecting the binary. The AMIBIOSC0800 string in the BIOS binary identifies the AMI BIOS binary as AMI BIOS code version 8. The BIOS binary that dissected here is the BIOS for a Soltek SL865PE motherboard. The BIOS release date is September 14, 2004. This motherboard uses an Intel 865PE chipset. It only supports a 4-GB memory address space. You may want to download the datasheet of this chipset from Intel website to become accustomed to the system-wide addressing scheme of this chipset and the role of its PCI configuration register. .2.1. AMI BIOS File Structure 5 The structure of an AMI BIOS binary is similar to that of an Award BIOS binary. The boot block is placed in the highest address range within the binary, and the compressed components are placed below the boot block. Note that some padding bytes15 exist between them. 14 A within an15 The pabinary signature is a unique block of bytes that represent unique block of machine instructions executable file. dding bytes in this BIOS are bytes with FFh values. 58 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: Chapter1DataandInformationDataiseverywhereinabundantamounts.Surveillancecamerascontinuouslycapturevideo,everytimeyoumakeaphonecallyournameandlocationgetsrecorded,oftenyourclickingpatternisrecordedwhensurfingtheweb,mostfi-nancialtransactionsarerecorded,satellitesandobservatoriesgeneratetera-bytesofdataeveryyear,theFBImaintainsaDNA-databaseofmostconvictedcrimi-nals,soonallwrittentextfromourlibrariesisdigitized,needIgoon?Butdatainitselfisuseless.Hiddeninsidethedataisvaluableinformation.Theobjectiveofmachinelearningistopulltherelevantinformationfromthedataandmakeitavailabletotheuser.Whatdowemeanby“relevantinformation”?Whenanalyzingdatawetypicallyhaveaspecificquestioninmindsuchas:“Howmanytypesofcarcanbediscernedinthisvideo”or“whatwillbeweathernextweek”.Sotheanswercantaketheformofasinglenumber(thereare5cars),orasequenceofnumbersor(thetemperaturenextweek)oracomplicatedpattern(thecloudconfigurationnextweek).Iftheanswertoourqueryisitselfcomplexweliketovisualizeitusinggraphs,bar-plotsorevenlittlemovies.Butoneshouldkeepinmindthattheparticularanalysisdependsonthetaskonehasinmind.Letmespelloutafewtasksthataretypicallyconsideredinmachinelearning:Prediction:Hereweaskourselveswhetherwecanextrapolatetheinformationinthedatatonewunseencases.Forinstance,ifIhaveadata-baseofattributesofHummerssuchasweight,color,numberofpeopleitcanholdetc.andanotherdata-baseofattributesofFerraries,thenonecantrytopredictthetypeofcar(HummerorFerrari)fromanewsetofattributes.Anotherexampleispredictingtheweather(givenalltherecordedweatherpatternsinthepast,canwepredicttheweathernextweek),orthestockprizes.1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 396 Context: ``` | 06h | National Semiconductor LM80 | | 07h | National Semiconductor LM81 | | 08h | Analog Devices ADM9240 | | 09h | Dallas Semiconductor DS1780 | | 0Ah | Maxim 167 | | 0Bh | Genesis GL518SM | | 0Ch | Winbond W83781D | | 0Dh | Holtek HT82H791 | **Table 10.5 Management device—type** | Byte Value | Meaning | |------------|------------------------| | 01h | Other | | 02h | Unknown | | 03h | I/O port | | 04h | Memory | | 05h | System management bus | **Table 10.6 Management device—address type** Tables 10.4 to 10.6 show the meaning of the bytes in management device structure. With the help of information from these tables, it will be quite easy for you to make the WBEM management software query system parameters in a remote PC. However, to make remote hardware monitoring a reality, you first have to grant access to the remote system. For a malicious attacker, that would mean he or she already implanted a backdoor in the remote machine and escalated his or her privilege to the administrative level. Without administrator privilege, the attacker can't install a device driver, meaning he or she won't be able to poke around the hardware directly. With the administrator privilege, the attacker has the freedom to alter the BIOS. Altering the BIOS directly within the operating system was explained in chapter 9. You might want to find another interesting SMBIOS structure in the SMBIOS specification. For that purpose, surf to DMTF website at [http://www.dmtf.org](http://www.dmtf.org) and download the latest SMBIOS specification. As for the real-world code example that shows how to parse the SMBIOS structure table, be patient; the next section explains this. ## 10.2 Remote Server Management Code Implementation The remote server management code explained in this section is the implementation of the SMBIOS protocol that you learned in the previous section. Section 10.1 showed how SMBIOS provides detailed low-level information pertaining to the PC that implements SMBIOS. Before I move forward to how to parse the SMBIOS structure table, I would like to show you how a particular BIOS implements it. In Award BIOS version 6.00PG, the basic SMBIOS structure is placed in the compressed awardext.com file. You learned about the innards of the Award BIOS binary in chapter 5. Reread that chapter if you forget the Award BIOS binary structure. ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 480 Context: # Memory Write Transactions for BIOS Chip Protection | Byte | To Enable Protection | To Disable Protection | |-------|----------------------|-----------------------| | | Sequence Address | Data | Sequence Address | Data | | 1 | 5555h | AAh | 5555h | AAh | | 2 | 244Ah | 55h | 244h | 55h | | 3 | 5555h | A0h | 5555h | A0h | | 4 | 5555h | 245Ah | 5555h | 245Ah | | 5 | 5555h | 55h | 5555h | 55h | Note that the destination addresses of the memory write transaction shown in the preceding dataset snippet are only 16-bits because you only need to specify the lowest 16-bits of the destination addresses correctly. You don’t need to specify the significant bytes addresses precisely. As long as the overall destination address resides in the BIOS chip address ranges, the BIOS chip will decode it correctly as "commands." Those write transactions won’t be interpreted as "normal" write transactions to the BIOS chip; rather, they will be treated as commands to configure the internal setting of the BIOS chip. That’s why it doesn’t matter whether you specify 5555h or 5555h as the destination address of the new instruction. Both are the same from the BIOS chip’s perspective because both reside in the BIOS chip address ranges. The important issue when writing command bytes into the BIOS chip is to make sure the data you write into it, i.e., the sequence of the bytes and their corresponding lower 16-bits addresses are exactly as mentioned in the dataset. If the code writes to an address range outside of the BIOS chip's address range, it won’t be interpreted as the BIOS chip configuration command because the BIOS chip will respond to addresses outside of its range. From the Winbond W29C020C datasheet snippet, it’s clear that the routine disables the write protection of the BIOS chip. This byte sequence also applies to SST flash ROM chips. However, I’m not sure if it’s already a JEDEC standard to disable the BIOS chip write-protection feature. At this point, you should be able to understand listing 12.7 completely with the help of the hints I provided in listings 12.8 through 12.10 and their corresponding explanations. After the previous analysis, it’s clear that this particular CHI virus version only attacks systems with Intel 440BX, Intel 430TX, or Intel 440MX northbridge and Intel PI4X southbridge—effectively, the contents of the BIOS chip in these systems are destroyed. On top of that, those systems must be running Windows 9x for the virus to work. Systems with other chipsets can also be destroyed, but the contents of their BIOS will be left unharmed, possibly because of chipset incompatibility. Nonetheless, this doesn’t mean CHI was a minor threat when it spread around 1998–2000. Intel was then a dominant player in PC hardware. Therefore, its hardware was all over the place. That’s why CHI attacked many PCs during that time. The flashback to the history of BIOS-related attacks ends here. You will learn about BIOS toolkits in the upcoming sections. [^1]: Intel 440MX is a modified Intel 440BX chipset for mobile computing applications. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: PrefaceInwinterquarter2007ItaughtanundergraduatecourseinmachinelearningatUCIrvine.WhileIhadbeenteachingmachinelearningatagraduatelevelitbecamesoonclearthatteachingthesamematerialtoanundergraduateclasswasawholenewchallenge.Muchofmachinelearningisbuilduponconceptsfrommathematicssuchaspartialderivatives,eigenvaluedecompositions,multivariateprobabilitydensitiesandsoon.Iquicklyfoundthattheseconceptscouldnotbetakenforgrantedatanundergraduatelevel.Thesituationwasaggravatedbythelackofasuitabletextbook.Excellenttextbooksdoexistforthisfield,butIfoundallofthemtobetootechnicalforafirstencounterwithmachinelearning.Thisexperienceledmetobelievetherewasagenuineneedforasimple,intuitiveintroductionintotheconceptsofmachinelearning.Afirstreadtowettheappetitesotospeak,apreludetothemoretechnicalandadvancedtextbooks.Hence,thebookyouseebeforeyouismeantforthosestartingoutinthefieldwhoneedasimple,intuitiveexplanationofsomeofthemostusefulalgorithmsthatourfieldhastooffer.Machinelearningisarelativelyrecentdisciplinethatemergedfromthegen-eralfieldofartificialintelligenceonlyquiterecently.Tobuildintelligentmachinesresearchersrealizedthatthesemachinesshouldlearnfromandadapttotheiren-vironment.Itissimplytoocostlyandimpracticaltodesignintelligentsystemsbyfirstgatheringalltheexpertknowledgeourselvesandthenhard-wiringitintoamachine.Forinstance,aftermanyyearsofintenseresearchthewecannowrecog-nizefacesinimagestoahighdegreeaccuracy.Buttheworldhasapproximately30,000visualobjectcategoriesaccordingtosomeestimates(Biederman).Shouldweinvestthesameefforttobuildgoodclassifiersformonkeys,chairs,pencils,axesetc.orshouldwebuildsystemstocanobservemillionsoftrainingimages,somewithlabels(e.g.inthesepixelsintheimagecorrespondtoacar)butmostofthemwithoutsideinformation?Althoughthereiscurrentlynosystemwhichcanrecognizeevenintheorderof1000objectcategories(thebestsystemcangetiii #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 223 Context: E000:61F8 dw 247Ch ; Call ISA POST tests (below) E000:61F8 End_E000_POST_Jmp_Table 6.2.8. Rebuilding the BIOS Binary Rebuilding the BIOS binary is simple. Just finish the modification on the temporary system BIOS. Then save the changes in modbin. Once you have saved the changes, modbin will pack all temporary decompressed components into the BIOS binary. In this particular example, the changes are saved in modbin 4.50.80C and modbin is closed. 6.2.9. Flashing the Modified BIOS Binary Flashing the modified BIOS binary into the motherboard BIOS chip is trivial. For Award BIOS, just use the awardflash program that's shipped with the motherboard BIOS. I don't have to discuss this step in detail because it's trivial to do. Now, you have completed all of the modification steps and are ready to test the modified BIOS binary. In this particular modification example, I've tested the modified BIOS binary and it works as expected. Note that sometimes you have to restart the system a few times to ensure that the system is fine after the modification. 6.3. Other Modifications After the basics of Award BIOS reverse engineering in the previous chapter, various modification techniques come to mind. Frankly, you can modify almost every aspect of the BIOS by adjusting the boot block, modifying the system BIOS, adding new components, etc. As you know, the boot block starts execution at address F000:FFF0h or at its alias at FFFFFFF0h. In Award BIOS, this entry point always jumps to F000:F05Bh. You can redirect this jump into a custom-made procedure that's injected in the boot block padding bytes and subsequently jump back to F000:F05Bh in the end of the injected procedure. The padding bytes in boot block are few. Thus, only a little code can be injected there. That's one possible modification. Another type of modification is patching certain "interesting" procedures within the system BIOS binary. However, there is one inherent problem with it. Searching for the location of an interesting procedure can be time-consuming if you intend to make a similar modification in several BIOS files. To alleviate this problem, you can use a technique usually used in the computer security realm called "forming a binary signature." A binary signature is a unique block of bytes that represents certain consecutive machine instructions. You might be tempted to think that it's hard to find a pattern on a binary file with 256 possible combination per byte. This is true to some degree. However, the system BIOS 15 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 545 Context: Even if it's not shown in clearly in figures 14.3 and 14.4, you have to be aware that the BIOSs in both systems are highly customized for their target application. It's in the nature of an embedded system to be optimized according to its target application. It's important to meet that requirement, because it can reduce the cost and improve the overall performance of the system. The dedicated software application in figures 14.3 and 14.4 refers to the software application that runs on top of the operating system and serves the user of the embedded x86 system. At this point, the big picture of embedded x86 systems, particularly their BIOS, should be clear. 14.2. Embedded x86 BIOS Implementation Samples This section talks about implementations of BIOS in x86 embedded systems. It delves into three categories of embedded x86 systems, i.e., the TV set-top box, the network appliance, and the kiosk. I explain the TV set-top box in detail; the other systems are explained in detail. 14.2.1. TV Set-Top Box Set-top box (STB) is a term used to describe a device that connects to an external signal source and turns the signal into content to be displayed on a screen; in most cases, the screen is that of a television. The external signal source can be coaxial cable (cable television), Ethernet, a satellite dish, a telephone line (including digital subscriber line, or DSL), or an ultra high or very high frequency (UHF or VHF) antenna. Nonetheless, this definition is not rigid. In this section, I use the term to refer to a PC-based device. Even if the system cannot connect to one of the external signal sources mandated by the preceding definition, as long as it can play multimedia content without booting to a full-fledge desktop or server operating system2 I regard it as an STB. The ability to play multimedia content in this context must include video playback capability. Now, I want to delve into a unique motherboard used as a building block to create a multimedia PC, also known as a PC-based STB. The motherboard is Acorp 4865GQET. This motherboard uses the Intel 865G chipset. It's interesting because its BIOS has a unique feature: it can play DVDs and browse the Internet without booting to a full-fledge desktop or server operating system. It does so by booting to a small operating system named etBIOS, which is embedded in its BIOS. However, this behavior depends on the BIOS setting. The motherboard can boot an ordinary desktop operating system as well if it's set to boot to into the desktop operating system. The Acorp 4865GQET BIOS is based on Award BIOS version 6.00PG. Moreover, one component, the etBIOS module, is "unusual." It's a 2 An operating system used in a desktop or server platform, such as the desktop version of Windows, Linux, or FreeBSD. #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 185 Context: FurtherReading171Chapter6FundamentalDataCompressionIdaMengyiPu.PublishedbyButter-worth-Heinemann(2006).ISBN0750663103.TheFaxModemSourcebookAndrewMargolis.PublishedbyWiley(1995).ISBN0471950726.IntroductiontoDataCompressionKhalidSayood.PublishedbyMor-ganKaufmaninTheMorganKaufmannSeriesinMultimediaIn-formationandSystems(fourthedition,2012).ISBN0124157963.Chapter7PythonProgrammingfortheAbsoluteBeginnerMikeDawson.Pub-lishedbyCourseTechnologyPTR(thirdedition,2010).ISBN1435455002.OCamlfromtheVeryBeginningJohnWhitington.PublishedbyCo-herentPress(2013).ISBN0957671105.SevenLanguagesinSevenWeeks:APragmaticGuidetoLearningPro-grammingLanguagesBruceA.Tate.PublishedbyPragmaticBook-shelf(2010).ISBN193435659X.Chapter8HowtoIdentifyPrintsBamberGascgoine.PublishedbyThames&Hudson(secondedition,2004).ISBN0500284806.AHistoryofEngravingandEtchingArthurM.Hind.PublishedbyDoverPublications(1963).ISBN0486209547.PrintsandPrintmaking:AnIntroductiontotheHistoryandTechniquesAntonyGriffiths.PublishedbyUniversityofCaliforniaPress(1996).ISBN0520207149.DigitalHalftoningRobertUlichney.PublishedbyTheMITPress(1987).ISBN0262210096. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 29 Context: # Hex Workshop ![Hex Workshop](figure1.png) A quick look in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) section (the rightmost section in the figure) reveals some string. The most interesting one is the `--h1s--` in the beginning of the binary file. An experienced programmer will be suspicious of this string, because it resembles a marker for a header of a compressed file. Further research will reveal that this is a string to mark the header of a file compressed with LHA. You can use a similar approach to another kind of file. For example, every file compressed with WinZip will start with ASCII code `PK`, and every file compressed with WinRAR will start with ASCII code `Rar!`, as seen in a hex editor. This shows how powerful a preliminary assessment is. ## 2.2 Introducing IDA Pro Reverse code engineering is carried out to comprehend the algorithm used in software by analyzing the executable file of the corresponding software. In most cases, the software only comes with the executable—without its source code. The same is true for the BIOS. Only the executable binary file is accessible. Reverse code engineering is carried out with the help of some tools: a debugger; a disassembler; a hexadecimal file editor, a.k.a. a hex editor; in-circuit emulator, etc. In this book, I only deal with a disassembler and a hex editor. The current chapter only deals with a disassembler, i.e., IDA Pro disassembler. IDA Pro is a powerful disassembler. It comes with support for plugin and scripting facilities and support for more than 50 processor architectures. However, every powerful tool has its downside of being hard to use, and IDA Pro is not an exception. This chapter is designed to address this issue. There are several editions of IDA Pro: freeware, standard, and advanced. The latest freeware edition as of the writing of this book is IDA Pro version 4.3. It's available for download at [http://www.dlfile.com/ida_pro_freeware_version.htm](http://www.dlfile.com/ida_pro_freeware_version.htm). It’s the most limited of the IDA Pro versions. It supports only the x86 processor and doesn’t come with a plugin. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 146 Context: ```markdown 2000:E558 mov ds, ax 2000:E58A assume ds:1000h 2000:E58A push ax 2000:E58B mov al, 0Ch ; '*' 2000:E58D out 80h, al ; Manufacturer's diagnostic checkpoint 2000:E58F call copy_decompression_result 2000:E594 pop ax 2000:E595 cmp ax, 5000h 2000:E596 jb short decompression_ok 2000:E598 jmp far ptr loc_F000_FF7 2000:E59D decompression_ok: 2000:E59D mov al, 0 2000:E59F call enable_cache 2000:E5A2 jmp far ptr loc_F000_F80D; Jump to decompressed System BIOS After looking at these exhaustive lists of disassembly, construct the memory map of the BIOS components just after the system BIOS decompressed (table 5.3). ### Table 5.3 BIOS binary mapping in memory after system BIOS decompression | Starting Address of BIOS Component in RAM (Physical Address) | Size | Decompression Status | Component Description | |--------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|----------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| | 5_0000h | 128 KB | Decompressed to RAM beginning at address in column one. | This is the system BIOS, i.e., the main BIOS code. Sometimes it is called orignal.imp. | | 30_0000h | 512 KB | Not decompressed yet | This is the copy of the overall BIOS binary, i.e., the image of the BIOS binary in RAM. | Some notes regarding the preceding decompression routine: 1. Part of the decompression code calculates the 16-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC-16) value of the compressed component during the decompression process. 2. The decompression routine is using segment 3000h as a scratch-pad area in RAM for the decompression process. This scratch-pad area spans from 3000h to 3800h, and it's 128 KB in size. It's initialized to zero before the decompression starts. The memory map of this scratch-pad area is as shown in table 5.4. ### Table 5.4 Memory map of the scratch-pad segment | Starting Index in the scratchpad Segment | Size (in Bytes) | Description | |------------------------------------------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | 371Ch | 2000h | Buffer. This area stores the "sliding window," i.e., | ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 407 Context: 00000090 0020 0020 0000 0420 0400 0103 0F02 290F . . ... ......). 000000A0 0000 FFFB EBBF 038E 6400 FA0B D007 4104 ........d.....A. 000000B0 0A00 0B00 FFFF 536F 636B 6574 2034 3738 ......Socket 478 000000C0 0049 6E74 656C 0049 6E74 656C 2852 2920 .Intel.Intel(R) 000000D0 4365 6C65 726F 6E28 5229 2043 5055 0000 Celeron(R) CPU.. ........ Hex dump 10.2 only shows the starting part of the SMBIOS structure table. It's too long; therefore, I've condensed it to save space. Listing 10.4 shows the text file result of the parsing process. This result is also a condensed version of the real text file. Listing 10.4 SMBIOS Structure Table Parsing Result in My System BIOS information structure -------------------------- Length = 0x13 Handle = 0x0 BIOS starting address segment = 0xE000 BIOS ROM size = 0x7 BIOS vendor : Phoenix Technologies, LTD BIOS version : 6.00PG BIOS date : 12/28/2004 ... I've provided two screenshots in a local windows update server to give you a glimpse of what kind of remote data you can obtain through WMI. They are shown in figures 10.5 and 10.6. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 529 Context: # System ## Host Platform ### Motherboard - **Embedded Devices** - **Connection to Extension Buses** - **User Input** - **User Output** - **CPU** - **Memory** - **Embedded Firmware** - Bootstrap Code - Other Firmware - **Power Supply** - **Optional Adapters** - **Case** - **Peripherals** - **Fixed Nonvolatile Storage** - **Removable Storage** - **Initial Program Loader (IPL) Code** - **Operating System** - **Drivers** - **Services** - **Applications** ### Figure 13.4: System-wide logical architecture of a PC in TCG terminology As you can see, Figure 13.4 shows that CRTM is the BIOS boot block and that the CPU reset vector points to a location inside the CRTM. Now, examine Phoenix TrustedCore. Its documentation is available for download at the following links: - [Link 1](#) - [Link 2](#) #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 184 Context: 170FurtherReadingChapter3TheHistoriesPolybius(translatedbyRobinWaterfield).PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPressundertheOxfordWorldClassicsim-print(2010).ISBN0199534705.Code:TheHiddenLanguageofComputerHardwareandSoftwareCharlesPetzold.PublishedbyMicrosoftPress(2000).ISBN0735611319.UnicodeExplainedJukkaK.Korpela.PublishedbyO’ReillyMedia(2006).ISBN059610121X.TheDeciphermentofLinearBJohnChadwick.PublishedbyCam-bridgeUniversityPress(secondedition,1967).ISBN1107691761.Chapter4IntroductiontoAlgorithmsT.Cormen,C.Leiserson,R.Rivest,andC.Stein.PublishedbyMITPress(thirdedition,2009).ISBN0262533057.FlexiblePatternMatchinginStrings:PracticalOn-LineSearchAlgo-rithmsforTextsandBiologicalSequencesGonzaloNavarroandMath-ieuRaffinot.PublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress(2007).ISBN0521039932.Google’sPageRankandBeyond:TheScienceofSearchEngineRankingsAmyN.LangvilleandCarlD.Meyer.PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress(2012).ISBN0691152667.Chapter5TheWonderfulWritingMachineBruceBliven,Jr.PublishedbyRan-domHouse(1954).ISBN600150329X.QuirkyQwerty:TheStoryoftheKeyboard@YourFingertipsTorbjörnLundmark.PublishedbyUniversityofNewSouthWalesPress(2001).ISBN0868404365.TheIronWhim:AFragmentedHistoryofTypewritingDarrenWershler-Henry.PublishedbyMcClelland&Stewart(2005).ISBN0771089252. #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 183 Context: FurtherReadingTherefollowsalistofinterestingbooksforeachchapter.Somearecloselyrelatedtothechaptercontents,sometangentially.Thelevelofexpertiserequiredtounderstandeachofthemvariesquiteabit,butdonotbeafraidtoreadbooksyoudonotunderstandallof,especiallyifyoucanobtainorborrowthematlittlecost.Chapter1ComputerGraphics:PrinciplesandPracticeJamesD.Foley,AndriesvanDam,StevenK.Fiener,andJohnF.Hughes.PublishedbyAddisonWesley(secondedition,1995).ISBN0201848406.ContemporaryNewspaperDesign:ShapingtheNewsintheDigitalAge–Typography&ImageonModernNewsprintJohnD.BerryandRogerBlack.PublishedbyMarkBatty(2007).ISBN0972424032.Chapter2ABookofCurvesE.H.Lockwood.PublishedbyCambridgeUniver-sityPress(1961).ISBN0521044448.FiftyTypefacesThatChangedtheWorld:DesignMuseumFiftyJohnL.Waters.PublishedbyConran(2013).ISBN184091629X.ThinkingwithType:ACriticalGuideforDesigners,Writers,Editors,andStudentsEllenLupton.PublishedbyPrincetonArchitecturalPress(secondedition,2010).ISBN1568989695.169 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 214 Context: Once you have read and can comprehend some chipset datasheets, it will be much easier to read and comprehend a new chipset datasheet. Reading a chipset datasheet is necessary when you want to develop a certain patch that modifies the chipset register setting during POST or after POST, before the operating system is loaded. Now, you have completed the prerequisites to modify the BIOS. The next section will delve into the details of Award BIOS modification. 6.2. Code Injection Code injection is an advanced BIOS modification technique. As the name implies, this technique is accomplished by injecting code to the BIOS. This section focuses on injected code that will be executed during the boot process, when the BIOS is executed to initialize the system. There are several techniques to inject code2 in Award BIOS: 1. Patch the POST jump table in the system BIOS to include a jump into a customized or injected routine. This technique is portable among the different versions of Award BIOS.3 Thus, this is the primary modification technique in this chapter. 2. Redirect one of the jumps in the boot block into the custom injected procedure. In this case, the injected procedure is also placed in the boot block. However, this technique has some drawbacks, i.e., the padding bytes in the boot block area are limited. Thus, the injected code must fit in the limited space. Moreover, you can't inject code that uses stack because stack is unavailable during boot block execution. Thus, I won't delve into this technique here. 3. Build an ISA expansion ROM and insert it into the BIOS binary by using cbrom. This technique works fine for older Award BIOS versions, mostly version 4.50PG. It works in Award BIOS version 6.00PG but not in all versions. Thus, it cannot be regarded as portable. Moreover, it has some issues with a system that has modified BIOS. Thus, I won't delve into it. From now on, you will learn the technique to patch the POST jump table. Recall from section 5.1.3.2 that there is a jump table called the POST jump table in the system BIOS. The POST jump table is the jump table used to call POST routines during system BIOS execution. The basic idea of the code injection technique is to replace a "dummy" entry in the POST jump table with an offset into a custom-made procedure that you place in the padding-bytes section of the system BIOS. The systematic steps of this technique are as follows: 2 Code injection is adding a custom-made code into an executable file. 3 There are two major revision of Award BIOS code, i.e., Award BIOS version 4.50PG and Award BIOS version 6.00PG. There is also a rather unclear version of Award BIOS code that's called Award BIOS version 6. However, Award BIOS version 6 is not found in recent Award BIOS binary releases. 6 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: ContentsPrefaceiiiLearningandIntuitionvii1DataandInformation11.1DataRepresentation.........................21.2PreprocessingtheData.......................42DataVisualization73Learning113.1InaNutshell.............................154TypesofMachineLearning174.1InaNutshell.............................205NearestNeighborsClassification215.1TheIdeaInaNutshell........................236TheNaiveBayesianClassifier256.1TheNaiveBayesModel......................256.2LearningaNaiveBayesClassifier.................276.3Class-PredictionforNewInstances.................286.4Regularization............................306.5Remarks...............................316.6TheIdeaInaNutshell........................317ThePerceptron337.1ThePerceptronModel.......................34i #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 536 Context: As for the BIOS recovery path, it's not a secure way to update the contents of the BIOS. In this case, the system will boot from the boot block and carry out the BIOS update routine to update the BIOS binary. However, from figure 13.5, it's clear that the CRTM (boot block) is not tampered with by this procedure. Thus, the integrity of the BIOS cannot be easily compromised because an attacker is only able to implant his code in a non–boot block area of the BIOS and that can be easily detected by an integrity check subroutine in the boot block. In any case, you have to be aware that the BIOS update routine in Phoenix Secure WinFlash is running in the S3-resume context, which is not an ordinary processor execution context. This is a safe way to modify the BIOS chip context because a remote attacker won't be able to do it easily. In the S3-resume context, the machine is not running inside an operating system context, which implies that there is no interconnection with the outside world. As a side note, you might be asking about the preliminary result of the Phoenix Secure WinFlash application. I used IDA Pro 4.9 to do a preliminary analysis, and the result shows that it's compiled using Borland compiler. I haven't done any further research yet. In the TCG standards document, the PCI expansion ROM is protected using one of the PCRs to verify the integrity of the option ROM. However, the PCR only exists in systems that implement the TPM chip in the motherboard. Therefore, this method of protecting the PCI expansion ROM cannot be used in most desktops and server systems on the market. In closing this subsection, I would like to make one recommendation: read the TCG PC Client Specific Implementation Specification for Conventional BIOS document. You might find some concepts within this document that you can implement to protect the BIOS against various threats. 13.2. Recognizing Compromised Systems The previous section explains the methods of preventing BIOS rootkits from being installed in the system. In this section, I talk about methods to detect whether a system has been compromised by a BIOS rootkit. It's not going to be a detailed explanation; the focus is in the detection principles. 13.2.1. Recognizing a Compromised Motherboard BIOS The easiest way to detect the presence of a BIOS rootkit in a machine is to compare the installed BIOS with the same BIOS from the manufacturer's website. "The same BIOS" in this context means the BIOS file with exactly the same revision as the one installed in the system that you are investigating. The BIOS ID string can help you do that. Typically, the BIOS ID string is formatted as follows: BIOS_release_date-Motherboard_chipset_id-IO_controller_chip_id-BIOS_release_code-BIOS_revision #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 108 Context: • System BIOS. This is a compressed part. Its role is to initialize the system by doing POST and calling other BIOS modules needed for system-wide initialization. In the old days, this component is always named original.tmp. Today's Award BIOS doesn't use that name. Nevertheless, the BIOS hacking and modification community often refers to this component as original.tmp. • System BIOS extension. This component is compressed. Its role is as a "helper" module for the system BIOS. • Other compressed components. These components are system dependent and mainly used for onboard device initialization, boot-sector antivirus, etc. As per the IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual Volume 3: System Programming Guide 2004, we know that the x86 processor starts its execution in 16-bit real mode at address 0xF000:0xFFF02 following restart or power-up. Hence, this address must contain 16-bit real-mode x86 executable code. It's true that 0xF000:0xFFF0 contains the pure binary component of the BIOS, i.e., the boot block code. The boot block resides in the highest address range in the system memory map among the BIOS components, as previously shown in figure 4.7. Before delving into the compressed components and the pure binary components of this particular Award BIOS, you need to know how the binary is mapped into the system address space. Figure 5.1 is the starting point. 2 0xF000:0xFFF0 is an alias to the reset vector at 0xFFFFFFF0. It's the chipset that carries out the aliasing for backward compatibility purposes. 2 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 578 Context: STB. In this respect, it can be viewed as the inability of the aged BIOS architecture to cope with new advances in firmware technology. In the future this won’t be as much of a problem because BIOS technology will move to UEFI-compliant solutions. As you have learned in section 15.1, UEFI specification has the so-called UEFI application. New features such as the etBIOS that converts an ordinary x86 systems into an embedded x86 appliances will be easier to develop. Moreover, because of the presence of UEFI specification, developers of value-added UEFI applications such as etBIOS will be able to port their application between different BIOS vendors almost seamslessly because all of the system firmware will adhere to the UEFI specification. The AMD vision of x86 everywhere that I mention in chapter 14 is also a driving force to the advances in embedded x86 firmware technology that will bring more x86-based embedded platform into our daily life. They key to x86 firmware development that will help the realization of ubiquitous computing environment is the presence of a well-defined interface to build embedded application on top of the system firmware. UEFI specification has paved the way by providing a well-defined interface for the development of pre-boot application, also known as UEFI applications. I predict that there will be a significant growth in UEFI application in the coming years, particularly value-added application that turns x86 platforms into value-added embedded x86 appliances. 15.3. The Future of BIOS-related Security Threat In the previous sections, I talk about the advances in BIOS-related technology. Now, let me continue into the security implication of those advances such as the possible exploitation scenarios and the weaknesses exposed by those advances. First, start with the BIOS code injection possibility. In section 6.2, I’ve explained the BIOS code injection in Award BIOS through the so-called POST jump table. Simple code injection technique like that is not applicable to EFI/UEFI because of the presence of cryptographic code integrity check in the EFI/UEFI-compliant firmware. Therefore, future code-injection techniques must overcome the cryptographic code integrity check first hand. As you have learned in section 13.1.4, the code integrity check in Phoenix TrustedCore is in the boot block. Other EFI/UEFI-compliant BIOS binaries very possibly implement the code integrity check in the same way because even the main BIOS module must be ensured to be unaltered illegally during boot time to ensure the security of the system. Therefore, a code injection attack to UEFI-compliant BIOS will include an attack to the code integrity check in the boot block and a code injection in the main BIOS module. Another possible and probably easier scenario is to develop UEFI application that will be inserted into the UEFI-compliant BIOS. However, an attack like this must first ensure that if the system is using TPM hardware, the hash value in TCG hardware for the corresponding UEFI application must be updated accordingly. This kind of attack is more complex than the BIOS code injection in section 6.2. Another consideration is the use of C compiler to build UEFI binary components. Moving-up the complexity of BIOS related development, also has it’s consequences to increase the possibility of complex attacks such as buffer overflows and other kind of attacks that usually attacks software developed by using higher level compiler than #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 282 Context: chip datasheet to be able to access and manipulate the BIOS contents. The specifications of the system that I use are as follows: 1. The motherboard is Iwill VD133 with an VIA 693A northbridge and an VIA 596B southbridge. The original BIOS is dated July 28, 2000. The BIOS chip is a Winbond W49F002U flash ROM chip. 2. The operating system is Linux Slackware 9.1 with kernel version 2.4.24. The source of the kernel is installed as well. It's needed to compile the software so that I can access the BIOS chip contents directly. From this point on, regard the preceding system as the target system. Now, continue to the documentation that you need to carry out the task: 1. The chipset datasheet, particularly the southbridge datasheet, is needed. In an x86 motherboard, the southbridge controls access into the BIOS chip. In this case, you need the VIA 596B datasheet. Fortunately, the chipset datasheet is free online at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FF297JQD. 2. The BIOS chip datasheet is also needed, because every BIOS chip has its own command set, as explained in section 9.1. In this case, you need the Winbond W49F002U datasheet. It's available online at http://www.winbond.com/e-winbondhtm/partner/_Memory_F_PF.htm. A tool is also needed to access the BIOS chip. I prefer to build the tool myself because I'll have full control of the system without relying on others. Fortunately, the Freebios project developers have done the groundwork. They have made a Linux BIOS flasher3 program. It's called flash_n_burn. The source code of this program is free at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=3206. It's also accessible at http://freebios.cvs.sourceforge.net/freebios/freebios/util/flash_and_burn/ for manual download. It's unfortunate that this tool is not included by default in the Freebios distribution. With this tool, you can dump the BIOS binary from the BIOS chip and flash the BIOS binary file to the BIOS chip directly in Linux. More importantly, I'll show you how it works under the hood. You might want to download it and tailor it to your liking later. 9.2.1. Introduction to flash_n_burn Let me show you how to compile the source code. You need to copy the source code into a directory and then compile it from there. In this example, place the code in the ~/Project/freebios_flash_n_burn directory. Then, compile it by invoking the make utility as shown in shell snippet 9.1. Note that you can clean the compilation result by invoking make clean inside the source code directory. 3 BIOS flasher is software used to burn, or flash, a BIOS binary file into the BIOS chip. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 388 Context: software in this book because it varies so much. There is open-source activity around the UNIX implementation of WBEM at http://openwbem.org/. As for WMI, I offer a little explanation. However, this chapter covers the BIOS level implementation of the WBEM paradigm. Therefore, the operating system–specific layer of WBEM will not be the major theme here. Even if figure 10.1 shows a kind of client–server relationship between the WBEM manager software and the system that hosts the manageable components, in the real world, the system doesn't have to be set up as client and server for the WBEM to work. For example, in Windows machines, as long as remote access to the WMI of the remote machine is granted, the local machine can "ask" the remote machine to perform management tasks. The requirements and specifics about WBEM for hardware devices are available in the "Windows Hardware Instrumentation Implementation Guidelines" at http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/7/7/577a5684-8a83-43ae-9272-ff260a9c20e2/whiig-1.doc. The SMBIOS implementation guideline is provided in chapter 2.7 in the document: Static SMBIOS table data is provided to WMI using the WMI infrastructure Required Vendors who want to provide OEM-specific and system-specific instrumentation data may choose to use SMBIOS as the mechanism. In order to leverage the capabilities of the WMI infrastructure to surface this SMBIOS data, they must conform to any SMBIOS version from 2.0 to 2.3. Doing so will allow the Win32 provider to populate almost all of the SMBIOS-provided information into the [Common Information Model] CIMv2.0 namespace. In particular, almost all of the information will be put into Win32 classes. Some of these Win32 classes are derived from the CIMv2.0 physical [Managed Object Format] MOF. This requirement does not imply a requirement to implement SMBIOS in a system. It's clear in the preceding citation that the WMI subsystem in Windows will "parse" the SMBIOS data provided by the BIOS and then "export" it to the WBEM manager software as needed through the WMI interface. In figure 10.1, an arrow runs from the power-on BIOS code to the SMBIOS structure tables. This arrow means the SMBIOS structures table is populated by the BIOS code that is executed during system initialization. SMBIOS is a BIOS feature specific to the x86 platform. It's implemented as part of the WBEM initiative. The role of SMBIOS is to provide system-specific information to the upper layer in the WBEM implementation, i.e., the operating system layer. To easily understand the SMBIOS, you can download version 2.4 of its specification at http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/. I often refer to the contents of this specification. In the earlier implementation of SMBIOS, the information was presented as a "callable interface," i.e., platform-specific function calls. The current implementation of #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: vsonalperspective.InsteadoftryingtocoverallaspectsoftheentirefieldIhavechosentopresentafewpopularandperhapsusefultoolsandapproaches.Butwhatwill(hopefully)besignificantlydifferentthanmostotherscientificbooksisthemannerinwhichIwillpresentthesemethods.Ihavealwaysbeenfrustratedbythelackofproperexplanationofequations.ManytimesIhavebeenstaringataformulahavingnottheslightestcluewhereitcamefromorhowitwasderived.Manybooksalsoexcelinstatingfactsinanalmostencyclopedicstyle,withoutprovidingtheproperintuitionofthemethod.Thisismyprimarymission:towriteabookwhichconveysintuition.ThefirstchapterwillbedevotedtowhyIthinkthisisimportant.MEANTFORINDUSTRYASWELLASBACKGROUNDREADING]ThisbookwaswrittenduringmysabbaticalattheRadboudtUniversityinNi-jmegen(Netherlands).Hansfordiscussiononintuition.IliketothankProf.BertKappenwholeadsanexcellentgroupofpostocsandstudentsforhishospitality.Marga,kids,UCI,... #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 537 Context: The BIOS revision in the BIOS ID string format indicates the revision of the BIOS binary. It is sometimes a combination of a number and a character, or it can be just numbers. This depends on the manufacturer. In many cases, information about the BIOS release date is enough to download the same BIOS from the manufacturer website. If you want to ensure you have downloaded exactly the same BIOS, cross-check the BIOS ID string. After you have obtained the BIOS from the manufacturer, you can use an editor or another utility to compare the bytes in BIOS to check the integrity of the BIOS in the system that you are investigating. There is a problem with this approach, however: if the binary in the manufacturer's table has been infected by the same rootkit, you won’t know if the BIOS you are investigating is infected. You learned about BIOS code injection in section 6.2. The method explained in that section is POST jump table code injection. To fight against it, you can build a BIOS unpacker that scans the POST jump table in the system BIOS. It’s not too hard to carry out this task for Award BIOS and most BIOS on the market because the compression algorithm that they use is based on variants of Lempel-Ziv with a Huffman coding as a back-end. The preliminary unpacker development can be accelerated by using IDA Pro scripts or a plugin or by using IDA Python. The basic principle of this method is to scan the POST jump table for suspicious entries. You may want to scan the entries for a particular suspicious signature or signatures. Another method to detect the presence of a BIOS rootkit is to create a digital signature for every legitimate BIOS binary and then compare the digital signature of a suspected BIOS binary with the legitimate BIOS binary. This method only works if you have acquired the legitimate BIOS binary beforehand. To prepare for the BIOS in advance—before the suspected security breach happened. If you have located some types of BIOS rootkits, you can use an antivirus-like approach, i.e., create a rootkit signature to detect the presence of a rootkit in suspected BIOS binaries. This method works if you have encountered many BIOS rootkits. Otherwise, you have to guess what the BIOS rootkit might look like. There is also a possibility that the BIOS rootkit is a combo rootkit, i.e., it consists of a kernel-mode driver rootkit (within the operating system) and a rootkit embedded in the BIOS. The typical logical architecture of such a rootkit is shown in Figure 13.7. ![Kernel-mode driver rootkit](link-to-kernel-mode-driver-rootkit) **Figure 13.7** Combo BIOS rootkit logical architecture The purpose of the kernel-mode driver is to hide the presence of the BIOS rootkit. It does so by filtering read and write operations to the BIOS chip address range. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 576 Context: # 4. TrustedCore Notebook for mobile platforms You have learned about the detail implementation of Phoenix TrustedCore for desktop platforms in chapter 13. Therefore, I don't explain it in detail in this chapter. Now, you will look at the comparison between different types of TrustedCore variants. It is shown in Table 15.1. | TrustedCore Server & Embedded Server | TrustedCore Embedded | TrustedCore Desktop | TrustedCore Notebook | |--------------------------------------|----------------------|---------------------|----------------------| | Delivers breakthrough IPMI support for remote server management in both Microsoft .NET heterogeneous environment. | Supports complete range of embedded platforms, chipsets, and operating environments to build everything from Windows industrial PCs to embedded blades systems. | Support for the latest CPUs and chipsets from all major vendors. | Supports full range of mobile computing chipsets and form factors, including notebook, sub-notebook and tablet PC. | | Optimized for easy implementation in blade, clustered and grid models. | Delivers the widest range of boot options in the marketplace. Boot from multiple media types or from the network. | Early bring-up for fast prototype builds. | Optimized power management includes SleepState and PowerNow support and power handling of all ACPI power states. | | Trusted Core integrates with enterprise security policy to deliver more secure networks. | Leverages industry standard x86 architecture and industry economics to enable entirely new embedded device types. | Supports the latest industry software standards. | Supports Absolute ComputracePlus. | | CoreArchitect 2.0 support with drag and drop feature and automatic code creation. | CoreArchitect 2.0 support with drag and drop feature and automatic code creation. | CoreArchitect 2.0 support with drag and drop feature and automatic code creation. | CoreArchitect 2.0 support with drag and drop feature and automatic code creation. | Table 15.1 shows the comparison among different products derived from the TrustedCore code base. Table 15.1 does not state explicitly that Phoenix products based on TrustedCore code base is EFI-compliant. In fact, TrustedCore code base is an EFF version 1.1-compliant product. Therefore, the evolution that this product needed to be UEFI 2.0 compliant is minor, much like the changes in AMI Aptio and AMI Enterprise64 BIOS shown in figure. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 63 Context: ![Binary Analysis](https://via.placeholder.com/300x200) *Figure 2.24 Binary Analyzer Plugin: binary analysis feature* When the user presses the **OK** button, the **starting address** and **ending address** parameters will be used as input parameters to call the `analyze_binary` function. The `analyze_binary` function analyzes the BIOS binary disassembled in the currently opened IDA Pro database. Understanding the guts of this function requires in-depth knowledge of BIOS reverse engineering, particularly Award BIOS. Thus, I dissect it in later chapters, after you are equipped with enough BIOS reverse engineering know-how. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 406 Context: # Accessing SMBIOS Information in Windows Listings 10.1–10.3 show how to access the SMBIOS information present in the system for Windows-based machines. Nevertheless, this information is also provided by the WMI subsystem in Windows. It's possible that WMI doesn't parse all of the SMBIOS structure table in the system. In that case, you probably want greater control over the SMBIOS structure table by parsing it yourself and using the information for your purposes. The use of `bios_probe` version 0.34 to dump SMBIOS data in my system is shown in Figure 10.4. ## Figure 10.4: Dumping the SMBIOS Area in My System The binary dump of the SMBIOS area is shown in hex dump 10.2. ## Hex Dump 10.2: SMBIOS Area of My System | Address | Hexadecimal Values | ASCII Values | |------------|----------------------------------------|-------------------------------| | 00000000 | 0013 0000 0102 0000 0307 009D CB7F 0000 | .......... .............. | | 00000010 | 0000 3750 6963 656E 6373 6C6F 656E 6B68 | .Phoenix Tech. | | 00000020 | 6C6F 6E67 6765 693A 2322 3238 2532 3230 | ........... ....... | | 00000030 | 1800 0040 5000 1901 0001 0023 04DF 7FFF | ............................ | | 00000040 | FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF 0000 2000 2000 0000 | ............................ | | 00000060 | 2500 0002 0008 0001 0203 0400 4049 3836 | ......186 | | 00000070 | 3550 4522 5738 3237 0220 0200 0000 5EF3 | 5EF-W83627.. | | 00000080 | 00000000 0300 0100 0200 0402 0220 0000 | ............................. | ^1 The system is built on an DFI 865PE Infinity motherboard, 512 MB of RAM, and a Celeron 2.0 GHz. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 423 Context: setting after a CMOS brute-force attack. This is necessary to boot the operating system after shutdown. Without pressing a certain key, the boot process will stop at BIOS initialization; the machine won't proceed further to boot the operating system. This is also an added security measure in the legitimate PC owner side. 3. Sometimes, knowing the BIOS password is not helpful to a remote attacker if the machine is already running in an operating system environment. For example, if the attacker's intention is to install rootkits, this could be easily done without the BIOS password if the machine is already booted to the operating system. At this point, you might realize that BIOS password protection is meant to be a "local" security measure. It works against unlawful PC usage in a local environment. It works perfectly for systems that are shut down and powered on regularly, such as desktops in an office. 11.2. BIOS Component Integrity Checks As you have learned in the previous chapters, every BIOS binary consists of some pure binary components, which are not compressed, and some compressed components. The BIOS code has a certain mechanism to check the integrity of each of these components. Most BIOSs use a checksum mechanism to check the integrity of their components. The BIOS component checksum mechanism is not meant to be as a security measure. However, it can guard against "random" code injection into the BIOS binary because a BIOS component will be considered invalid when its checksum is wrong. If someone injects a code into a BIOS component without fixing all of the checksum, the BIOS will halt its execution at the checksum checking routine during system initialization because it detects a wrong component checksum and subsequently calls the boot block routine that will ask you to update the BIOS. In the worst-case scenario, if the boot block checksum is wrong, it's possible that the BIOS will halt the system initialization execution in boot block or reset the system repeatedly. The next subsections show you the implementation of the BIOS component checksum routines. 11.2.1. Award BIOS Component Integrity Checks In Award BIOS versions 4.50 and 6.00PG, there are two types of checksums. The first one is an 8-bit checksum, and the second one is a 16-bit CRC. The 8-bit checksum is used for various purposes, for example, to verify the overall checksum of the system BIOS, along with the compressed components, and to verify the integrity of the header of compressed components.8 Listing 11.10 shows the 8-bit checksum calculation routine for the header of LZH compressed components in Award BIOS version 6.00PG. This routine is located in the decompression block. 8 Refer to table 5.2 in chapter 5 for a detailed LZH header format. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 14 Context: Second, some components within the PC, such as RAM and the central processing unit (CPU) are running at the "undefined" clock speed4 just after the system is powered up. They must be initialized to some predefined clock speed. This is where the BIOS comes into play; it initializes the clock speed of those components. The bus protocol influences the way the code inside the BIOS chip is executed, be it motherboard BIOS or other kinds of BIOS. Section 1.4 will delve into bus protocol fundamentals to clean up the issue. 1.2. Expansion ROM Expansion ROM5 is a kind of BIOS that's embedded inside a ROM chip mounted on an add-in card. Its purpose is to initialize the board in which it's soldered or socketed before operating system execution. Sometimes it is mounted into an old ISA add-in card, in which case it's called ISA expansion ROM. If it is mounted to a PCI add-in card, it's called PCI expansion ROM. In most cases, PCI or ISA expansion ROM is implanted inside an erasable or electrically erasable programmable read-only memory chip or a flash-ROM chip in the PCI or ISA add-in card. In certain cases, it's implemented as the motherboard BIOS component. Specifically, this is because of motherboard design that incorporates some onboard PCI chip, such as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller, SCSI controller, or serial advanced technology attachment (ATA) controller. Note that expansion ROM implemented as a motherboard BIOS component is no different from expansion ROM implemented in a PCI or ISA add-in card. In most cases, the vendor of the corresponding PCI chip that needs chip-specific initialization provides expansion ROM binary. You are going to learn the process of creating such binary in part 3 of this book. 4 "Undefined" clock speed in this context means the power-on default clock speed. 5 Expansion ROM is also called as option ROM in some articles and documentations. The terms are interchangeable. 6 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 7 Context: Embedded x86 BIOS Exploitation 418 Chapter 15 What's Next? 428 • The Future of BIOS 428 o Extensible Firmware Interface 428 o BIOS Vendors Roadmap 430 • Ubiquitous Computing and BIOS 431 • The Future of the BIOS-Related Security Threat 434 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 10 Context: # Motherboards Overview ## Figures ### Figure 1.1: Motherboard with a DIP-type BIOS chip ![Motherboard with DIP-type BIOS chip](URL-to-image1) - **Components:** - BIOS chip in DIP type package - CMOS RAM chip - CMOS RAM battery - **Ports:** - JP5, JP42, JP11, JP12 - Fan ports (FAN1, FAN2, FAN3) - USB, LPT, ISA, PCI, AGP, DIMM slots ### Figure 1.2: Motherboard with a PLCC-type BIOS chip ![Motherboard with PLCC-type BIOS chip](URL-to-image2) - **Components:** - BIOS chip in PLCC package - CMOS battery - **Ports:** - PCI slots, DIMM slots, IDE ports ## Summary This document provides an overview of motherboards featuring different types of BIOS chips (DIP and PLCC). Each motherboard's layout and key components are outlined. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 570 Context: # UEFI Overview ## Figure 15.1 Simplified Diagram of UEFI in the System-Wide Architecture The history of UEFI starts with the development of EFI by Intel as the core firmware for Intel Itanium platforms. EFI was conceived to be a platform-independent firmware interface. That is why it adapts quite easily to the PC architecture; in fact, not only PC architecture but other processor architectures as well. UEFI is the latest incarnation of the platform firmware specification that's formerly known as EFI. The primary goal of the UEFI specification is to define an alternative boot environment that alleviates some of the problems inherent to BIOS-based systems, such as the high cost and complex changes needed whenever new functionalities or innovations are going to be incorporated to platform firmware. As with other interface specifications, you have to understand the basic architecture of an UEFI-based system in order to understand how it works. ## Figure 15.2 UEFI-Compliant System Architecture ``` Operating System └── UEFI Operating System Loader ├── UEFI Boot Services ├── UEFI Runtime Services └── (OTHER) ├── SMBIOS └── ACPI └── Interfaces from other required specifications ``` * *Platform firmware components* *UEFI System Partition* *UEFI OS Loader* #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 567 Context: # Steps to Access the BIOS Chip in Embedded x86 Systems ![Figure 14.17 Steps to access the BIOS chip in embedded x86 systems](path_to_image) 1. **Compromise the embedded x86 device** (gain administrator privilege if it exists). 2. **Find the API documentation of the OS** used in the embedded x86 device. 3. **Use the API documentation** to find a way to access memory-mapped I/O devices in the embedded x86 system programmatically; this information is used to develop software to access the BIOS chip within the OS. 4. **“Install” the “custom code” to the BIOS chip** by using the software developed in the previous step. Accessing the BIOS chip in embedded x86 systems is not a big problem if the operating system is Windows XP Embedded edition because the API used in this operating system is the same as the API in other Windows XP editions. I provided sample source code to access the BIOS chip in Windows XP in section 93. It’s unfortunate that I don’t have access to a system with Windows XP Embedded edition to try the application. Nevertheless, I think the sample source code should be portable—maybe directly executable—to Windows XP Embedded edition. On the other side, Windows CE is tricky because the API is not exactly the same as that of Windows XP. Indeed, the Windows CE API is highly compatible with the API in the desktop version of Windows. However, for a low-level API, i.e., a kernel API, it's not exactly the same. You can read the Microsoft Developer Network online documentation at [msdn.microsoft.com](http://msdn.microsoft.com) to find out more about the Windows CE API. As for systems that use embedded Linux, these are easier for attackers to work with because the source code of the operating system is available in the public domain, along with some documentation about the system. As for embedded x86 systems with the operating system integrated into the BIOS, as in the case of eBIOS in subsection 14.2.1, you have to reverse engineer a compatible version of the operating system from a publicly available source. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: 2CHAPTER1.DATAANDINFORMATIONInterpretation:Hereweseektoanswerquestionsaboutthedata.Forinstance,whatpropertyofthisdrugwasresponsibleforitshighsuccess-rate?Doesasecu-rityofficerattheairportapplyracialprofilingindecidingwho’sluggagetocheck?Howmanynaturalgroupsarethereinthedata?Compression:Hereweareinterestedincompressingtheoriginaldata,a.k.a.thenumberofbitsneededtorepresentit.Forinstance,filesinyourcomputercanbe“zipped”toamuchsmallersizebyremovingmuchoftheredundancyinthosefiles.Also,JPEGandGIF(amongothers)arecompressedrepresentationsoftheoriginalpixel-map.Alloftheaboveobjectivesdependonthefactthatthereisstructureinthedata.Ifdataiscompletelyrandomthereisnothingtopredict,nothingtointerpretandnothingtocompress.Hence,alltasksaresomehowrelatedtodiscoveringorleveragingthisstructure.Onecouldsaythatdataishighlyredundantandthatthisredundancyisexactlywhatmakesitinteresting.Taketheexampleofnatu-ralimages.Ifyouarerequiredtopredictthecolorofthepixelsneighboringtosomerandompixelinanimage,youwouldbeabletodoaprettygoodjob(forinstance20%maybeblueskyandpredictingtheneighborsofablueskypixeliseasy).Also,ifwewouldgenerateimagesatrandomtheywouldnotlooklikenaturalscenesatall.Forone,itwouldn’tcontainobjects.Onlyatinyfractionofallpossibleimageslooks“natural”andsothespaceofnaturalimagesishighlystructured.Thus,alloftheseconceptsareintimatelyrelated:structure,redundancy,pre-dictability,regularity,interpretability,compressibility.Theyrefertothe“food”formachinelearning,withoutstructurethereisnothingtolearn.Thesamethingistrueforhumanlearning.Fromthedaywearebornwestartnoticingthatthereisstructureinthisworld.Oursurvivaldependsondiscoveringandrecordingthisstructure.IfIwalkintothisbrowncylinderwithagreencanopyIsuddenlystop,itwon’tgiveway.Infact,itdamagesmybody.Perhapsthisholdsforalltheseobjects.WhenIcrymymothersuddenlyappears.Ourgameistopredictthefutureaccurately,andwepredictitbylearningitsstructure.1.1DataRepresentationWhatdoes“data”looklike?Inotherwords,whatdowedownloadintoourcom-puter?Datacomesinmany #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: AMACHINEMADETHISBOOKtensketchesofcomputerscienceHowdowedecidewheretoputinkonapagetodrawlettersandpictures?Howcancomputersrepresentalltheworld’slanguagesandwritingsystems?Whatexactlyisacomputerprogram,whatandhowdoesitcalculate,andhowcanwebuildone?Canwecompressinformationtomakeiteasiertostoreandquickertotransmit?Howdonewspapersprintphotographswithgreytonesusingjustblackinkandwhitepaper?Howareparagraphslaidoutautomaticallyonapageandsplitacrossmultiplepages?InAMachineMadethisBook,usingexamplesfromthepublish-ingindustry,JohnWhitingtonintroducesthefascinatingdisciplineofComputerSciencetotheuninitiated.JOHNWHITINGTONfoundedacompanywhichbuildssoftwareforelectronicdocumentprocessing.Hestudied,andtaught,ComputerScienceatQueens’College,Cambridge.Hehaswrittentextbooksbefore,butthisishisfirstattemptatsomethingforthepopularaudience. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 212 Context: # BIOS Modification Guide Here's a comprehensive guide on modifying the system BIOS using modbin and cbrom utilities. ## Instructions 1. **Open the BIOS binary** to be patched with modbin. 2. **Open the temporary system BIOS** (original.tmp or original.bin), generated by step 1, in the hex editor and subsequently patch it with the hex editor. At this point, you can also copy the decompressed system BIOS to another directory to be examined with a disassembler. Remember that at this point, the modbin must stay open or active. 3. **Save the changes and close modbin.** Note that both versions of modbin work flawlessly in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and under normal usage; modbin enables you to change BIOS settings, including options, setting default values, etc. I won’t delve into it because it’s easy to become accustomed to. ## cbrom Utility The next tool to learn is **cbrom**. There are several versions of cbrom. All of them relate to the following functions: - Insert a BIOS component - Extract a BIOS component - Remove a BIOS component or display information about components inside an area of the BIOS binary However, there is one thing that you must note: **cbrom cannot extract or insert into the system BIOS, but it can extract or insert the system BIOS extension**. Cbrom is used in accordance with modbin; cbrom is used to manipulate the system BIOS. Cbrom is also a console-based utility. Now, see how it works. ### Figure 6.3 Cbrom Command Options ``` E:\BIOS_MT>\CBROM97.EXE /? CBROM97.EXE [BIOS File] [Options] [ID] [Options>Extract] Options: -i Insert the image into the BIOS -e Extract files from BIOS -d Display current configurations in BIOS -r Remove a logo from BIOS -n Name of the new BIOS image file -o Name of output for extracted BIOS ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 401 Context: } // // Changes to function main are shown below // int main (int argc, char * argv[]) { int read_it = 0, write_it = 0, verify_it = 0, pci_rom_read = 0, pci_rom_write = 0, pci_rom_erase = 0, smbios_dump = 0; // Irrelevant code omitted } else if(!strcmp(argv[1],"-smbios")) { smbios_dump = 1; } // Irrelevant code omitted // // If it's an SMBIOS dump request, dump the SMBIOS area (0xF0000 // - 0xFFFFF) to the file and then terminate the application // if(smbios_dump) { if(dump_smbios_area(filename) == 0) { printf("Error: failed to dump smbios area to file\n"); CleanupDriver(); // Cleanup driver interface return -1; } else { CleanupDriver(); // Cleanup driver interface return 0; } } // Irrelevant code omitted } As you can see in listing 10.1, the SMBIOS support is provided in one dedicated function named dump_smbios_area. This function maps the SMBIOS physical address range (0xF0000–0xFFFFF) to the address space of the bios_probe user mode application with the help of the bios_probe driver that you learned in chapter 9. Then, dump_smbios_area scans this area for the presence of the SMBIOS structure table entry point. It does so by scanning the _SM_ signature string. Upon finding the entry point, dump_smbios_area then locates the SMBIOS table by reading the value of the structure table entry in the SMBIOS EPS. The dump_smbios_area function also reads the length of the SMBIOS table by reading the structure table length from the entry point. Then, dump_smbios_area unmaps the SMBIOS entry point from bios_probe and proceeds to map the real SMBIOS structure table to the bios_probe address space. The dump_smsbios_area function then copies the contents of the SMBIOS table to a #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 523 Context: chance to protect your system or at least raise the bar for an attacker who wants to infect your BIOS with a rootkit from a remote place. This prevention method is accomplished by developing a device driver that will initialize the BLR upon the boot of the operating system. The initialization by the driver will configure the BLR bits so that the BIOS chip contents will be write-locked. This way, the attacker has to work to find the driver before he or she can infect the BIOS. This is especially hard for the attacker if the driver is stealthy. I'm not proposing a BIOS patching approach to alleviate the "bad" BIOS code implementation of the protection mechanism—BIOS that doesn't write-lock the BIOS chip upon boot—because I think it will be hard to modify the BIOS binary to make that happen, especially for a BIOS that has no publicly available modification tool. It's just too risky to implement such a thing in the today's BIOS. 13.1.2. Virtual Machine Defense Another prevention method that may help defend a BIOS rootkit is the implementation of a virtual machine. When attackers target the operating system running within the virtual machine, they may find a BIOS within that operating system. However, it's not the real motherboard BIOS. Thus, they won't harm the system. However, this method won't work if the attackers realize that the system running on top of a virtual machine because they will try to gain full control of the system to gain access to the real BIOS chip in the motherboard. As a side note, some virtual machines use a modified version of AMI BIOS as the BIOS. Another issue that I haven't researched yet is the "presentation" of the emulated hardware inside the virtual machine. I don't know yet how real the virtual machine–emulated hardware looks when an attacker has gained full access to the virtual machine entity remotely. 13.1.2. WBEM Security in Relation to the BIOS Rootkit In this subsection, I'm not going to delve into the issue of implementing a WBEM security measure because a WBEM-based attack entry point is in the application layer, not in the BIOS. However, I want to explain the danger caused by a compromised WBEM infrastructure2 in connection with a BIOS rootkit deployment scenario. This is important because few people are aware that a compromised WBEM infrastructure can help attackers launch a firmware-level assault on the systems inside the WBEM infrastructure. Attackers who have gained access to the overall WBEM infrastructure likely will implement a low-level rootkit to maintain their access in the compromised systems. This means they will probably try to infect the compromised system with BIOS rootkit. Here is 2 WBEM infrastructure in this context consists of desktops and servers that implement a certain WBEM specification and can respond to remote queries that request the system-level configuration information. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 566 Context: and it displays error messages. Otherwise, you can only guess from a part number or some other vendor-related identifier in the POS device. I was able to figure out the operating system used in an ATM for one bank because the out-of-service error message was an embedded system version of the famous blue screen of death (BSOD) in Windows on the desktop platform. Upon seeing it, I knew that the ATM used Windows XP Embedded edition because the error message display the BSOD. Some systems uses Windows XP Embedded edition instead of Windows CE to take advantage of operating system features. 14.3. Embedded x86 BIOS Exploitation In the subsection 14.2.3, you saw that some embedded x86 devices use a customized desktop version of Award BIOS. The same is true for the BIOS from other vendors. Therefore, the security hole found in the desktop version of a BIOS likely can be ported to its embedded x86 BIOS counterpart. This section gives an overview of a possible exploitation scenario to the embedded x86 BIOS. As already mentioned, embedded x86 systems mostly use a customized operating system, such as Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded edition, or Embedded Linux. Suppose that attackers have gained administrator privileges in one of these machines. How would they "install" malicious software in the machine? If they target the BIOS, they must understand the underlying architecture of the operating system to be able to access the BIOS chip. Figure 14.17 shows the details of the steps for accessing the BIOS in embedded x86 systems. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 392 Context: # Figure 10.3 Organization of an SMBIOS structure The formatted section contains the predefined header for the SMBIOS structure, and the unformatted section contains the strings associated with the contents of the formatted section or another kind of data as dictated by the SMBIOS specification. The unformatted section is not mandatory. The presence of the unformatted section depends on the type of the structure. The header of the SMBIOS structure is crucial in determining the type of the structure. The organization of bytes in the header is shown in Table 10.2, which can be found in the version 2.4 of the SMBIOS specification. ## Table 10.2 Organization of bytes in the SMBIOS structure header | Offset | Name | Length | Description | |--------|--------|--------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00h | Type | Byte | Specifies the type of structure. Types 0 through 127 (7Fh) are reserved for and defined by this specification. Types 128 through 255 (80h to FFh) are available for system- and OEM-specific information. | | 01h | Length | Byte | Specifies the length of the formatted area of the structure, starting at the Type field. The length of the structure's string is not included. | | 02h | Handle | Word | Specifies the structure's handle, a unique 16-bit number in the range 0–FFFFh (for version 2.0) or 0–FFFFh (for versions 2.1 and later). The handle can be obtained with the `Get SMBIOS structure` function to retrieve a specific structure; the handle numbers are not required to be contiguous. For v2.1 and later, handle values in the range 0FF00h–FFFFh are reserved for use by this specification. If the system configuration changes, a previously assigned handle might no longer exist. However, once a handle has been assigned by the BIOS, the BIOS cannot reassign that handle number to another structure. | The offset in Table 10.2 is calculated from the first byte in the SMBIOS structure. Note that the Type byte in Table 10.2 is the first byte of an SMBIOS structure. As seen in the description of the Type byte, there are 128 predefined types of SMBIOS structures. As stated previously, there are some interesting SMBIOS structures. For example, SMBIOS structure type 15 is the system event log. This structure is interesting because, by using information from this structure, you can access the CMOS parameters in the machine. Table 10.3 shows the relevant contents of this structure; this table can also be found in version 2.4 of the SMBIOS specification. ## Table 10.3 Relevant contents of SMBIOS structure type 15 | Offset | SMBIOS Specification | Name | Length | Value | Description | |--------|----------------------|--------|--------|-------|-------------| | | | | | | | #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 503 Context: I'm not going to explain many things in this subsection because Award BIOS 6.00PG is similar to version 4.51. I will only provide the disassembly source code to show you how similar they are. Because of this similarity, all methods explained in the previous subsection are applicable to Award BIOS 6.00PG. The good news is that Award BIOS 6.00PG contains relatively more free space than its older sibling does. In this section, I'll show the disassembly of Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 BIOS dated November 11, 2005. You worked with this file in chapter 5, in the Award BIOS reverse engineering section. Now, let me show you the PIC initialization code in the boot block. The disassembly is shown in listing 12.17. Listing 12.17 PIC Initialization in the Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 Boot Block F000:E2AC Initialize basic I/O chips: programmable interval timer, PIC, etc. F000:E2AC mov ax, 0F000h F000:E2AF mov ds, ax F000:E2B1 mov si, offset IO_port_start F000:E2B4 mov cx, 32 F000:E2B7 cld F000:E2B8 next_IO_port: ; CODE XREF: F000:E2C1h F000:E2B8 lodsw F000:E2B9 mov dx, ax F000:E2BB lodsb F000:E2BC out dx, al F000:E2BD jmp short $+2 F000:E2BF jmp short $+2 F000:E2C1 loop next_IO_port ......... F000:E7C1 IO_port_start dw 3B8h ; ... F000:E7C1 ; I/O port address F000:E7C3 db 1 ; Value to write ......... F000:E806 dw 20h ; Master PIC base register F000:E808 db 11h ; Master PIC ICW1; will be sending ICW4 F000:E809 dw 21h ; Master PIC base+1 register F000:E80B db 8 ; Master PIC ICW2; point to 8th ISR F000:E80B ; vector for IRQs in master PIC F000:E80C dw 21h ; Master PIC base+1 register F000:E80E db 4 ; Master PIC ICW3; IRQ2 connected to the F000:E80E ; slave PIC F000:E80F dw 21h ; Master PIC base+1 register F000:E811 db 1 ; Master PCI ICW4; 8086 mode F000:E812 dw 21h ; Master PIC base+1 register F000:E814 db 0FFh ; OCW1: disable all IRQs in master PIC F000:E815 dw 0A0h ; Slave PIC base register F000:E817 db 11h ; Slave PIC ICW1; will be sending ICW4 F000:E818 dw 0A1h ; Slave PIC base+1 register F000:E81A db 70h ; Slave PIC ICW2; point to 70h-th ISR F000:E81A ; vector for IRQs in slave PIC #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 436 Context: 000000C0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 000000D0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 000000E0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ ........ 0007FFB0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFC0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFD0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFE0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFF0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ Hex dump 11.4 shows a bogus result, because every byte contains 00h.17 It shouldn't be 00h in all address ranges because the original hexadecimal dump doesn't contain 00h in all address ranges. You can compare hex dumps 11.3 and 11.4 to clarify my statement. At this point, you can conclude that the BIOS chip doesn't respond when it's accessed after being disabled. A further writing experiment that I carried out on the BIOS chip also gave a bogus result. The content of the BIOS chip doesn't change after access to the BIOS chip is disabled. Rebooting the machine confirms this result. The little experiment that I carried out shows that a hardware security measure that's implemented correctly can fight against BIOS tampering effectively. Nonetheless, it only works for motherboard BIOS; PCI expansion ROM that's not part of the motherboard BIOS still risks of being easily tampered with. Some motherboard manufacturers also don't implement this feature correctly. They only set the write-lock bit in the BIOS chip when you set BIOS flash protect to enabled in the BIOS setting. They don't set the lock down bit. Therefore, it's easy for Windows-based or Linux-based software to tamper with the BIOS chip contents. You learned how to do that in chapter 9. You can imagine the effect if the software is a malicious application. Now, into another issue that seems to be a hardware solution to BIOS tampering, the so-called dual BIOS18 solution that uses two BIOS chips to protect against system failure caused by malfunction in one chip. Some motherboard manufacturers that sell motherboards equipped with dual BIOS state that one purpose of dual BIOS is to fight a malicious BIOS virus. Indeed, this kind of protection will work against old viruses such as the CIH, or Chernobyl, virus written by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan that render the BIOS contents useless and made the system unable to boot. Nonetheless, as I explained previously, the hardware protection will prevent BIOS tampering only if the BIOS chip is inaccessible or at least the write-lock and the lock-down bits in the chip are set to one. Dual BIOS won't protect the system from "correct" BIOS tampering, because as long as the system can boot perfectly from the primary BIOS chip, it will boot from it. In this case, the system won't be aware that the BIOS chip contents have been modified; as long as the modification doesn't screw up the BIOS, it's OK. By "correct" BIOS tampering, I mean a modification to BIOS chip that still keeps the system usable. For example, a BIOS code injection is legitimate BIOS tampering from the dual BIOS point of view, because the system will still boot from the primary BIOS chip. Therefore, dual BIOS might be useful 17 Every byte in the hex dump result contains 00h, from the beginning to end. It's not shown entirely because of the space constraints in this book. 18 Some manufacturers name this feature top-hat flash, and there are many other terms. I stick to dual BIOS. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 397 Context: I emphasize the basic SMBIOS structure here because the contents of the SMBIOS structure table will vary depending on the system configuration. It varies because the SMBIOS table also presents information about hardware in systems other than the motherboard, such as information about the installed processor and PCI expansion cards. Hex dump 10.1 shows the basic SMBIOS structure table in awardext.rom of Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 BIOS, dated November 19, 2005. Hex dump 10.1 SMBIOS Basic Structure in Foxconn BIOS Address Hexadecimal Values ASCII Values 0000CD60 6563 7465 6400 0D0A 005F 534D 5F00 1F02 ected...._SM_... 0000CD70 0200 0000 0000 0000 005F 444D 495F 0000 ........._DMI_.. 0000CD80 1000 080F 0000 0022 5651 B9FF 0F32 E4AC ......."VQ...2.. 0000CD90 02E0 E2FB 8824 595E 0E68 A4CD 6814 ABEA .....$Y^.h..h... 0000CDA0 0065 00E0 C306 60E8 9F00 B000 E860 0B0E .e....`......`.. Hex dump 10.1 gives you a glimpse into the BIOS-level implementation of the SMBIOS interface. Now, move to the next step: parsing the SMBIOS structure table from a running system. To accomplish the goal, extend the bios_probe4 source code. You can download the source code for this section at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9VERFZM5. The links provide the source code for bios_probe version 0.34. This version has rudimentary SMBIOS table parsing support. The major difference between this version and version 0.31 that you learned in chapter 9 is the SMBIOS support. How is the SMBIOS support added? First, there is a simple change to the flash_rom.c file to add a new switch to parse the SMBIOS table. This change is shown in listing 10.1. Listing 10.1 SMBIOS Support in flash_rom.c // Irrelevant code omitted #include "smbios.h" // Irrelevant code omitted int dump_smbios_area(char * filename) /*++ Routine Description: Scans the contents of SMBIOS area (0xF0000 - 0xFFFFF physical address) to find SMBIOS entry point signature "_SM_". If the signature is found, the SMBIOS table pointed to by the SMBIOS entry point is dumped into binary file named filename. Note: This function only supports table-based implementation for SMBIOS 4 Bios_probe is the revamped version of the flash_n_burn utility for windows that you learned in chapter 9. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 550 Context: ```markdown The address shown in hex dump 14.1 is relative to the start of the overall BIOS binary file. You can clearly see the `-h` signature (it is highlighted in yellow) in hex dump 14.1. The next step is to reverse engineer the Acorp 486SQET BIOS binary. As with Award BIOS 6.00PG binaries, start with the boot block. Then, continue to the system BIOS. In the previous steps, the reverse engineering result is just like that of an ordinary Award BIOS 6.00PG binary. Nonetheless, there are differences in the execution routine of the POST jump table. Listing 14.1 shows the relevant disassembly of the system BIOS in the Acorp 486SQET BIOS binary, along with the disassembly of eBIOS that has been copied to RAM. ### Listing 14.1 Acorp 486SQET BIOS POST Routine Disassembly ``` E_seg:0000 mov cx, 1 E_seg:0002 mov di, offset POST_jmp_tbl_start E_seg:0005 call exec_POST E_seg:0008 jmp short __halt__ E_seg:000A ; S U B R O U T I N E E_seg:000C exec_POST near E_seg:000D push ax E_seg:000E out 80h, al ; Manufacturer's diagnostic checkpoint E_seg:0010 pop es E_seg:0011 assume fs:seg E_seg:0013 mov ax, ds:[di] E_seg:0016 inc di E_seg:0017 mov ax, ax E_seg:0018 jz short exit E_seg:001A push di E_seg:001B call exec_PF_BIOS E_seg:001F call ax E_seg:0021 push cx E_seg:0023 pop di E_seg:0025 inc cx E_seg:0026 jmp short exec_POST E_seg:0028 ; ... E_seg:002A exit: E_seg:002B ret E_seg:002C exec_POST endp E_seg:002E POST_jmp_tbl_start dw 15Ch ; ... E_seg:0030 ; award_ext ROM decompression E_seg:0032 dw 127h ; en_code.bin decompression ``` ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 132 Context: The last thing to note is that the boot block explanation here only covers the normal boot block code execution path, which means it didn't explain the boot block POST that takes place if the system BIOS is corrupted. As promised, I now delve into the details of the decompression routine for the system BIOS, mentioned in point 5. Start by learning the prerequisites. The compressed component in an Award BIOS uses a modified version of the LZH level-H header format. The address ranges where these BIOS components will be located after decompression are contained within this format. The format is provided in Table 5.2. Remember that it applies to all compressed components. | Starting Offset from First Byte (from Preheader) | Starting Offset in LZH Basic Header | Size in Bytes | Contents | |---------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|---------------|---------| | 0Dh | N/A | 1 | The header length of the component. It depends on the file/component name. The formula is `header_length = filename_length + 25`. | | 01h | N/A | 1 | The header 8-bit checksum, not including the first 2 bytes (header length and header checksum type). | | 02h | 00h | 5 | LZH method ID (ASCII signature). In Award BIOS, it's "LZHS", which means: 8-KB sliding dictionary (max 256 bytes) + static Huffman + improved encoding of position and trees. | | 07h | 05h | 4 | Compressed file or component size in little endian dword value, i.e., MSB at 0Ah, and so forth. | | 0Bh | 09h | 4 | Uncompressed file or component size in little endian dword value, i.e., MSB at 0Bh, and so forth. | | 0Fh | 0Dh | 2 | Destination offset address in little endian word value, i.e., MSB at 0Ch, and so forth. The component will be decompressed into this offset address (real-mode addressing is in effect here). | | 11h | 0Fh | 2 | Destination segment address in little endian word value, i.e., MSB at 12h, and so forth. The component will be decompressed into this offset segment address. | * MSB stands for most significant bit. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 560 Context: This subsection talks about a network appliance device that is an embedded x86 system; I don't provide in-depth analysis like I did in the previous subsection because it's hard to obtain the binary of the BIOS in these devices. They are not publicly accessible. Nonetheless, it's important to talk about this class of devices to give you a sense of effective reverse engineering when it comes to "foreign" systems. The focus will be on a router. I start with an overview of the BIOS used in the Juniper M7i router. This router is an embedded x86 device. A picture of the router is shown in Figure 14.11. ![Figure 14.11 Juniper M7i router](https://example.com/router-image) The Juniper M7i router uses Award BIOS. BIOS screenshots are shown in Figures 14.12 and 14.13. **Figure 14.12**: Juniper M7i hard disk setup in its BIOS (courtesy of Rendo Ariya Wihawa, [http://rendo.info/?p=25](http://rendo.info/?p=25), reproduced with permission) ``` BIOS Version 1.0 CMOS Setup Utility Award Software, Inc. (C) 1984-1998 Hard Disks Type Size Clyls Head Precomp Landz Sector Mode Primary Master Primary Master Primary Slave Primary Slave Select Primary Slave Option (): ``` **Note:** Use Ctrl+C to exit. Press ESC to skip initialization. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 509 Context: original system BIOS with the compressed system.bin file obtained in the previous step. Add padding FFh bytes if necessary. Then close the hex editor. 7. Combine all remaining components that you extracted in step 2 back with 865pe.bin, and you're done. The preceding steps have been proven to work on some Award BIOS binary that cannot be worked with by using the modification method that alters the temporary system BIOS file generated by modbin. Note that you don't need modbin in these steps. However, you can use modbin to verify the validity of the binary after step 7 has been carried out. The subsections on Award BIOS end here. In the next subsection, I explain the issue that plagues the implementation of the BIOS from other vendors. 12.2.3. Extending the Technique to a BIOS from Other Vendors Implementing the technique that you learned in the previous two subsections to a BIOS other than Award BIOS is hard but not impossible. It is difficult because of the lack of tools in the public domain to carry out BIOS modification. Decompressing and analyzing a BIOS other than Award BIOS is quite easy, as you have seen in AMI BIOS reverse engineering in section 5.2. However, the main obstacle is compressing the modified BIOS components back into a working BIOS binary, along with correcting the checksums. Even the public-domain BIOS modification tool sometimes does not work as expected. I can give some pointers to a possible solution to this problem, specifically for AMI BIOS and Phoenix BIOS. There are some tools for AMI BIOS available on the Internet, such as Mmtool and Amibcp. You can work on PCI expansion ROM embedded within an AMI BIOS10 binary by using Mmtool. As for Amibcp, it works much like modbin for Award BIOS binaries. Amibcp lets you work with the system BIOS within an AMI BIOS binary. Moreover, some old versions of this tool released in 2002 or earlier can add a new compressed component into the AMI BIOS binary. It's possible that it enables you to add a new compressed module into the binary. I haven't done in-depth research on this AMI BIOS exploitation scenario yet. On the other hand, the only Phoenix BIOS tool that I'm aware of is Phoenix BIOS Editor. This tool works for the BIOS from Phoenix before Phoenix Technologies merges with Award Software. This tool generates temporary binary files underneath its installation directory upon working on a BIOS binary. You can use that to modify the BIOS. It's unfortunate that I haven't researched it further and cannot present it to you. However, I can roughly say that the temporary binary files are compiled into one working Phoenix BIOS binary when you close the Phoenix BIOS editor. It seems you can alter the system BIOS by altering those temporary binary files. The lack of a public domain tool for motherboard BIOS modification can be handled by avoiding injecting the rootkit into the motherboard BIOS. But then, how would you inject 10 PCI expansion ROM embedded within the overall BIOS binary is used for onboard PCI devices, such as a RAID controller and an onboard LAN chip. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 166 Context: develop a decompressor like this one, you have to analyze the decompression d then mimic that functionality in the or program you have made. e AMI BIOS reverse engineering shown here. at can help you in the reverse Beep Code List. It is available for cial website (http://www.ami.com). This document g of the POST code and the related task that's OS routine that emits the POST code. POST codes are debugging des w more complicated compared to Award BIOS boot block. dress 0xFFFF_FFF0 865PE BIOS in that n IDA Pro p Table p to execute a jump table in the beginning of block of the respective BIOS andecompress I won't use the tool mentioned previously in the reverse engineering in this section. ntioned just in case you want to modify AMI BIOS, because you don't even They are meneed it to carry out th There is free documentation from AMI thCheck Point and engineering process, i.e., the AMIBIOS8 download at American Megatrends' officontains explanationarried out by the BIs about the meaninccoritten to the debugging port (port 80h) during BIOS execution. You can use this documentation to comprehend the disassembled source code from the BIOS binary. You will encounter such a usage in the next two subsections. To use the document, you just need to compare the value written to port 80h in the disassembled BIOS binary and the respective explanation in the document. .2.3. AMI Boot Block Reverse Engineering 5 AMI BIOS boot block isHowever, as with other x86 BIOSs, this BIOS starts execution at ad disassemble the Soltek SL(0xF000:0xFFF0 in real mode). Start toaddress. I won't repeat the steps to set up the disassembling environment ious sections and chapters. because it was explained in the previ 5.2.3.1. Boot Block Jum AMI BIOS boot block contains a jumits execution, as shown in listing 5.27. Listing 5.27 AMI BIOS Boot Block Jump Table F000:FFF0 jmp far ptr bootblock_start ......... F000:FFAA bootblock_start: F000:FFAA jmp exec_jmp_table ......... F000:A040 exec_jmp_table: ; F000:A040 jmp _CPU_early_init F000:A043 ; ------------------------------------------------------------- F000:A043 F000:A043 _j2: ; F000:A043 jmp _goto_j3 60 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 225 Context: corresponds to completion of a routine or a corresponding error code. It can be a valuable hint. In principle, you have to know the big picture and then narrow the target in each step. For BIOS binary, in most cases you have to be particularly aware of the hardware protocol you are targeting and the memory or I/O address range that relates to the protocol. Once the protocol is known, you can look for the procedure quite easily. BIOS routines are implementations of the bus protocol, sometimes with only modest modification from the samples in the protocol documentation. As a sample of the BIOS patching scenario, modify the so-called EPA procedure. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) procedure is the procedure that draws the EPA logo during Award BIOS execution. Disable this feature by replacing the EPA procedure call with nop (do nothing) instructions. The EPA procedure in Award BIOS is a quite well-known procedure. Thus, the signature is already widespread on the Net. In Iwill VD133 BIOS, to modify the EPA procedure look for the "80 8EE1 0110 F646 1430" byte pattern as follows: Hex values Assembly Code 80 8E E1 01 10 or byte ptr [bp+1E1h], 10h F6 46 14 30 test byte ptr [bp+14h], 30h Then subsequently patch it, as illustrated in the BIOS modification change log: Changes in VD30728X.BIN: ----------------------------------- source file name : VD30728.BIN modified file name : VD30728X.BIN Modification goal: To disable the EPA procedure. Before modification, the code looks like (disassembled original.tmp) ......... E000:1E4C B8 00 F0 mov ax, 0F000h E000:1E4F 8E D8 mov ds, ax E000:1E51 assume ds:_F000h E000:1E51 E8 8C 11 call exec_nnoprom_100h E000:1E54 73 03 jnb short skip_epa_proc E000:1E56 E8 C3 00 call EPA_Procedure E000:1E59 skip_epa_proc: E000:1E59 E8 AF 01 call init_EGA_video ......... E000:1F1C EPA_Procedure proc near E000:1F1C 80 8E E1 01 10 or byte ptr [bp+1E1h], 10h E000:1F21 F6 46 14 30 test byte ptr [bp+14h], 30h E000:1F25 74 01 jz short loc_E000_1F28 E000:1F27 C3 retn E000:1F28 ; ------------------------------------- E000:1F28 loc_E000_1F28: E000:1F28 06 push es 17 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 350 Context: if ((image = fopen (filename, "rb")) == NULL) { // Error handler code omitted exit(1); } fread (buf, sizeof(char), size, image); fclose(image); } if (write_it || (!read_it && !verify_it)) flash->write(flash, buf); if (verify_it) verify_flash(flash, buf, /* verbose = */ 0); // Irrelevant code omitted } After fulfilling the user request, the main function then cleans up the resources it used and terminates bios_probe execution. Up to this point, the bios_probe execution path should be clear to you. One important fact has been uncovered so far. Pay attention to the Winbond W39V040FA datasheet snippet in tables 9.1 and 9.2. It's clear that if the BIOS initializes the lock-down bit to 1 during boot, you won't be able to access the BIOS chip. Therefore, a rootkit cannot be installed to the BIOS chip from within the operating system because of the hardware protection. I experimented with a DFI 865PE Infinity motherboard25 to confirm that the lock-down bit works. Indeed, it does. When I set the lock-down bit in Windows, the chip is inaccessible for reading and for writing. Reading the BIOS chip address space returns 0 bytes, and writing is impossible. 9.3.2.2. The PCI Library The PCI library in the Windows version of bios_probe is based on pciutils version 2.1.11 for Linux. Nonetheless, many functions and files have been removed to make it as slim as possible. In this subsection, I highlight the important parts of the library. From this point on, I refer to the Windows version of the PCI library as libpci. Libpci source code is a standalone static library. However, it needs the Windows equivalent of the direct I/O functions26 in Linux to compile. In bios_probe, they are provided in direct_io.h and direct_io.c files. Libpci is used in bios_probe during execution of the enable_flash_write function to detect the southbridge and enable access to the BIOS chip, as shown in listing 9.24. 25 DFI 865PE Infinity uses an Intel ICH5 southbridge and a Winbond W39V040FA flash ROM chip. 26 The direct I/O functions are inb, outb, inw, out, inl, and outl. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 483 Context: Figure 12.5 is only a highlight of the booting process; you can find the details by reverse engineering in your Windows XP system. Detailed information can be found at rwid's [NTFS reverse engineering dump](http://www.reteam.org/board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=26) and the Linux NTFS project documentation at [Linux NTFS Project](http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/1937/1/). In addition, you may want to read a book on digital forensics, such as *File System Forensic Analysis* by Brian Carrier. Back at Figure 12.5, you can clearly see that during Windows XP loading stages you have the chance to modify the operating system kernel (`ntoskrnl.exe`, `hal.dll`), either by hacking the Windows boot loader or by hacking the BIOS interrupt handlers. In this section, I show the latter scenario, i.e., how to implement an approach similar to the BootRoot rootkit at the BIOS level. The essence of the technique is to modify the interrupt handlers for interrupts that can alter the kernel before or during the operating system's kernel loading process. Figures 12.6 and 12.7 show how this trick works in a real-world scenario for interrupt 13h. ### Interrupt 13 handler before being altered by rootkit #### Reading HDD sector example: 1. `mov ah, 0x02` ; invoke read disk sector interrupt 2. `mov al, 0x01` ; read sector 1 in the first cylinder 3. `mov ch, 0x00` ; read sector from HDD 4. `mov dh, 0x00` ; destination segment 5. `mov bx, 0x7C00` ; set destination offset 6. `int 13h` ; now, the sectors are in memory starting at address 0000:7C00h ### Interrupt 13 handler after being altered by rootkit - **New Interrupt 13h handler** Read the sector(s) into a designated memory buffer using ATA command (i.e., `IN` or `OUT` instructions). After reading the HDD, return the contents before returning to the operating system kernel. #### Loading disk sectors to RAM #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 200 Context: 186Indexresolution,3river,141RobertW.Floyd,118rocker,104rule-basedhyphenation,138Russiancharacters,33Scholes,ChristopherLatham,53Scrabble,69screen,3search,41engine,51function,45shape,15builtfromlines,9curved,15filling,9scaling,16shiftkey,30shipcurves,17skippingrule,49smallcaps,125sort,91StanfordUniversity,118SteinbergLouis,118SteinwayHall,108stoppingout,104sub-pixel,8subdivision,22tablet,3tag,34tail,88TalbotWilliamHenryFox,108telegraph,30textblock,136textualdata,27Thaialphabet,37TheHistories,27threshold,98,99toner,4torchforsignalling,28tree,82rootof,82true,45,84typeface,5,15,33typesetting,34typewriter,53unambiguousdecoding,70underfullline,137Unicode,34units,2UNIVAC,60universalcompression,66UniversityofCambridge,30UniversityofWashington,58value,81variable,83videostorageof,5Westernlanguage,36widow,139WilliamHenryFoxTalbot,108woodblock,100ZapfHermann,123Zapfino,127Zhuyin,62 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 42 Context: In addition, AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming, February 2005, section 14.1.5, page 417, says: Normally, within real mode, the code-segment base address is formed by shifting the CS-selector value left four bits. The base address is then added to the value in IP to form the physical address into memory. As a result, the processor can only address the first 1 Mbyte of memory when in real mode. However, immediately following RESET or INIT, the CS selector register is loaded with 0FFFFh, but the CS base address is not formed by left-shifting the selector. Instead, the CS base address is initialized to FFFF0000h. IP is initialized to FFFFh. Therefore, the first instruction fetched from memory is located at physical address FFFF0000h (FFFF0000h + 0000FFFFh). The CS base address remains at this initial value until the CS selector register is loaded by software. This can occur as a result of executing a jump instruction or call instruction, for example. When CS is loaded by software, the new base address value is established as defined for real mode (by left-shifting the selector value four bits). From the preceding references, you should conclude that address 0000_0000-000F_FFFFh is an alias to address FFFF_0000h-FFFF_FFFFh; they both point to the same physical address range. Whenever the host (CPU) accesses some value in the 0000_0000h-000F_FFFFh address range, it’s actually accessing the value in the FFFF_0000h-FFFF_FFFFh range, and the reverse is also true. From this fact, I know that I have to relocate 64 KB of the uppermost BIOS code to address 0000_0000h-000F_FFFFh for further investigation. This decision is made based on my previous experience with various BIOS binary files; they generally reference an address with F000h used as the segment value within the BIOS code. Also, note that the last 64 KB of the BIOS binary file are mapped to at least 64 KB of the 4GB address space, i.e., 4 GB–64 KB to 4 GB. That’s why you have to relocate the last 64 KB. This addressing issue will be covered in depth in the first section of chapter 5. Thus, if the concept remains too hard to grasp, there is no need to worry about it. A simple script of only several lines can be typed and executed directly within IDA Pro without opening a text editor. IDA Pro provides a specific dialog box for this purpose, and it can be accessed by pressing **Shift+F2**. This is more practical for a simple task, but as the number of lines in the routine grows, you might consider coding the script as described in the previous explanation because there is a limitation on the number of instructions that can be entered in the dialog box. In this dialog box, enter the script to be executed and click **OK** to execute the script. An example script is shown in figure 2.11. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 68 Context: ```markdown # 3.2 BIOS-Related Software Development with GCC In the previous section, you developed a BIOS patch using only assembly language. For a simple BIOS patch, that's enough. However, for complicated system-level software development, you need to use a higher level of abstraction, i.e., a higher-level programming language. This means the involvement of a compiler is inevitable. This scenario sometimes occurs in the development of a BIOS plugin1 or in the development of BIOS patches. --- **Figure 3.1: FASM/W Code Editor** FASM will place the assembly result in the same directory as the assembly source code. FASM will give the result a name similar to the source file name but with a `.com` extension, not `.asm` as the source code file did. The dump of the binary result is not shown here because it's just the same as the one assembled with NASM previously. Note that FASM version 1.67 will emit a binary file with a `.bin` extension for the source code in listing 3.2. Even though using FASM or NASM is a matter of taste, I recommend FASM because it's a little easier to use than NASM. Furthermore, FASM was built with operating system development usage in mind. BIOS-related development would benefit greatly because both types of software development are dealing directly with "bare metal." However, note that this recommendation is valid only if you intend to use assembly language throughout the software development process, i.e., without mixing it with another programming language. The next section addresses this issue in more detail. 1 A BIOS plugin is system-level software that's integrated into the BIOS as a component to add functionality to the BIOS. For example, you can add CD-playing capability to the BIOS for diskless machines. ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 493 Context: decompress your "extension" code and alter the interrupt handler routine to branch into the "extension" upon interrupt handler routine execution. Note that the "extension" code might need to be placed in memory above the 1-MB barrier because you don't have enough free space below that barrier. In that case, you have to use an x86 voodoo-mode trick in your injected POST routine code to branch to the "extension" code. 1. Integrate the module to the BIOS binary with Chrom, using the `/other` switch. Nevertheless, please pay attention to the LZH header's `segment:offset`. This element must be handled like other compressed BIOS components that are not the system BIOS and its extension. > Note that Chrom can compress new BIOS modules and integrate them with the original binary by using the `/other` command line option. By using this option, you can place the starting address of the decompressed version of your module upon booting. Actually, this which does nothing to the additional BIOS module other than create the right destination `segment:offset` address in the LZH header of the compressed version of the module that you add into the BIOS. Thus, you have to decompress the module by calling the BIOS decompression routine in your injected POST jump table routine. From section 5.1.3.4, you know that the `segment:offset` that I'm referring to in this context is fake, because the destination address of the decompression is always segment 4000h for an extension component and actual BIOS uses some of the bits as described in the following section. ![Figure 12.10 Chrom /other option explanation](https://www.rebelshavenforum.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=52&t=000004) 7. Various versions of Chrom can be downloaded from [Rebels Haven](http://www.rebelshavenforum.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=52&t=000004). 8. Read section 5.1.3.4 about decompression of extension BIOS components. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 391 Context: Even table 10.1 might obscure how this table entry point fits into the overall SMBIOS architecture. Therefore, figure 10.2 shows the logical way to access the SMBIOS structure table. ![Figure 10.2 Searching for SMBIOS structure table](attachment-link) You can realize that the low-level remote management feature exists if an operating system is running, because the operating system provides connection from the machine to the outside world. Indeed, the WBEM architecture mandates this. However, the operating system doesn’t have to be a full-fledged operating system like Windows or UNIX—or even small-scale operating system-like software, such as the remote program loader or Intel’s PXE ROM code. If the machine boots from NIC, it is enough. As long as there is software that provides connection to the machine, you can remotely query the low-level system features by scanning and parsing the SMBIOS information in the SMBIOS structure table. You now know how to access the SMBIOS structure table. Next, consider some interesting parts of the SMBIOS structure table. I have to explain the basic organization of the table entries first. Every entry in the structure table is called an **SMBIOS structure**. It’s composed of two parts. The first is the **formatted section** and the second is an optional **unformatted section**, as shown in figure 10.3. ![Figure 10.3 Section organization](attachment-link) #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 549 Context: ```markdown # Acorp 4865GQET BIOS Component Layout Figure 14.9 shows the location of the "compressed" etBIOS binary inside the Acorp 4865GQET BIOS binary. I use the word *compressed* to refer to the compression state of this component because the component is not exactly compressed from Award BIOS LZH compression perspective. The header of this component shows an `-lh0` signature, which in LZH compression terms means a plain copy of the original binary file without any compression. However, the LZH header is appended at the start of the binary file. Hex dump 14.1 shows a snippet of the BIOS binary, focusing on the beginning of the etBIOS binary. ## Figure 14.9 Acorp 4865GQET BIOS Component Layout ``` 0 - System BIOS (compressed) - award.ext (compressed) - cpucode.bin (compressed) - acpitbl.bin (compressed) - awardbmp.bmp (compressed) - awardytrom (compressed) - _en_code.bin (compressed) - sdg_2919.dat (compressed) - 40603.dat ("compressed" etBIOS) - 865.bmp (compressed) - Decompression block (not compressed) - Boot block (not compressed) ``` ## Hex Dump 14.1 "Compressed" etBIOS Binary Header | Address | Hex Values | ASCII | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------------|----------------| | 0002CF10 | 2A95 4A45 5239 55FF D000 24F5 2D6C 6830 | *..JAR9U..$-lh0* | ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: sinthefieldofmachinetranslation,notbecauseanewmodelwasinventedbutbecausemanymoretranslateddocumentsbecameavailable.Thefieldofmachinelearningismultifacetedandexpandingfast.Tosampleafewsub-disciplines:statisticallearning,kernelmethods,graphicalmodels,ar-tificialneuralnetworks,fuzzylogic,Bayesianmethodsandsoon.Thefieldalsocoversmanytypesoflearningproblems,suchassupervisedlearning,unsuper-visedlearning,semi-supervisedlearning,activelearning,reinforcementlearningetc.Iwillonlycoverthemostbasicapproachesinthisbookfromahighlyper- #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 292 Context: # BIOS Probe Logical Architecture Figure 9.1 depicts the logical architecture of **bios_probe**. The division of **flash_h_burn** from its Linux version into components shown in the figure is not clear. The Linux version has an overlapped component implementation because of the presence of `/dev/mem` and the I/O privilege level (IOPL). `/dev/mem` is a virtual file representation of the overall physical memory address space in Linux. IOPL is a feature that enables a user with administrator privilege to access the I/O port directly in Linux. Both of these features don't exist in Windows. Therefore, I have to divide **bios_probe** into the components shown in figure 9.1 to determine which of the routines must be separated from the rest of the source code developed separately as a Windows device driver. Now, it’s clear that components 2 and 3 in figure 9.1 must be implemented in a device driver. Component 2 consists of direct I/O functions that normally exist in Linux, namely, `outb`, `outw`, `inb`, `inw`, and `inl`. Component 3 will replace the functionality of the `mmap` function that exists in Linux but not in Windows. In the Linux version of **flash_h_burn**, the `mmap` function maps the BIOS chip to the address space of the requesting user-mode application. You can download the source code of **bios_probe** that I explain here at [http://www.mequagel.com/?d=300BDV0](http://www.mequagel.com/?d=300BDV0). This web address is version 0.26 of the source code. However, this latest Windows version has not been well tested yet. I have only tested it successfully in a motherboard based on the VIA 596B southbridge with a Winbond W49F002U flash ROM chip and in a motherboard based on the Intel ICH5 southbridge with Winbond W39V040FA flash ROM. The directory structure of this source code is shown in figure 9.2. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 29 Context: Chapter4TypesofMachineLearningWenowwillturnourattentionanddiscusssomelearningproblemsthatwewillencounterinthisbook.ThemostwellstudiedprobleminMListhatofsupervisedlearning.Toexplainthis,let’sfirstlookatanexample.Bobwanttolearnhowtodistinguishbetweenbobcatsandmountainlions.HetypesthesewordsintoGoogleImageSearchandcloselystudiesallcatlikeimagesofbobcatsontheonehandandmountainlionsontheother.SomemonthslateronahikingtripintheSanBernardinomountainsheseesabigcat....ThedatathatBobcollectedwaslabelledbecauseGoogleissupposedtoonlyreturnpicturesofbobcatswhenyousearchfortheword”bobcat”(andsimilarlyformountainlions).Let’scalltheimagesX1,..XnandthelabelsY1,...,Yn.NotethatXiaremuchhigherdimensionalobjectsbecausetheyrepresentallthein-formationextractedfromtheimage(approximately1millionpixelcolorvalues),whileYiissimply−1or1dependingonhowwechoosetolabelourclasses.So,thatwouldbearatioofabout1millionto1intermsofinformationcontent!Theclassificationproblemcanusuallybeposedasfinding(a.k.a.learning)afunctionf(x)thatapproximatesthecorrectclasslabelsforanyinputx.Forinstance,wemaydecidethatsign[f(x)]isthepredictorforourclasslabel.Inthefollowingwewillbestudyingquiteafewoftheseclassificationalgorithms.Thereisalsoadifferentfamilyoflearningproblemsknownasunsupervisedlearningproblems.InthiscasetherearenolabelsYinvolved,justthefeaturesX.Ourtaskisnottoclassify,buttoorganizethedata,ortodiscoverthestructureinthedata.Thismaybeveryusefulforvisualizationdata,compressingdata,ororganizingdataforeasyaccessibility.Extractingstructureindataoftenleadstothediscoveryofconcepts,topics,abstractions,factors,causes,andmoresuchtermsthatallreallymeanthesamething.Thesearetheunderlyingsemantic17 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 395 Context: # Table 10.3 Relevant contents of system event log structure in SMBIOS | Address | Present | Method Field Value | |---------------|---------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | The area's format can be described by the following 1-byte-packed C union: | | | | ```c | | | | union { | | | | struct { | | | | short IndexAddr; | | | | short DataAddr; | | | | long PhysicalAddr32; | | | | short OemHandle; | | | | AccessMethodAddress; | | | | }; | | | | }; | | | | ``` | Some server vendors use information obtained from the system event log structure to change the contents of the CMOS chip in the system remotely with their proprietary WBEM manager software. Another interesting SMBIOS structure is the management device structure (type 34). With information from this structure, you can devise a program to monitor the system hardware parameters remotely, such as the voltage levels of a remote PC's processor, the remote PC's fan rate, the remote PC's fan failures, and overheating problems on a remote PC. The layout of this structure is shown in Table 10.4; it and Tables 10.5 and 10.6 are also available in version 2.4 of the SMBIOS specification. # Table 10.4 Management device structure, formatted section | Offset | Name | Length | Value | Description | |--------|---------|--------|-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00h | Type | Byte | 34 | Management device indicator | | 01h | Length | Byte | 0Bh | Length of the structure | | 02h | Handle | Word | Varies | The handle, or instance number, associated with the structure | | 04h | Description | Byte | String | The number of the string that contains additional descriptive information about the device or its location | | 05h | Type | Byte | Varies | Defines the device's type; see Table 10.5 | | 06h | Address | Dword | Varies | Defines the device's address | | 0Ah | Address | Byte | Varies | Defines the type of addressing used to access the device; see Table 10.6 | # Byte Value Meaning | Byte Value | Meaning | |------------|----------------------------------| | 01h | Other | | 02h | Unknown | | 03h | National Semiconductor LM75 | | 04h | National Semiconductor LM78 | | 05h | National Semiconductor LM79 | #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 147 Context: # Memory map of scratch-pad used by the decompression engine | Address | (8 KB) | Description | |---------|--------|-------------| | 571ch | 1 | LHA header length. | | 571bh | 1 | LHA header sum (8-bit sum). | | ... | ... | ... | 3. In this stage, only the system BIOS that is decompressed. It is decompressed to segment 5000h and later will be relocated to segment 8000h-8000h. Other compressed components are not decompressed yet. However, their original header information was stored at 0000:6000h-0000:6xxxxh in RAM. Among this information were the starting addresses[10] of the compressed component. Subsequently, their destination segments were patched to 4000h by the `Decompression_Engine` procedure in the BIOS binary image at 30_0000h-37_FFFFh. This can be done because not all of those components will be decompressed at once. They will be decompressed one by one during system BIOS execution and relocated from segment 4000h as needed. 4. The 4000h in the header[11] behaves as an ID that works as follows: - 40 (hi-byte) is an identifier that marks it as an "Extension BIOS" to be decompressed later during original execution. - xx is an identifier that will be used in system BIOS execution to refer to the component's starting address within the image of the BIOS binary[12] to be decompressed. This will be explained more thoroughly in the system BIOS explanation later. ## 5.1.3. Award System BIOS Reverse Engineering I'll proceed as in the boot block in the previous section; I'll just highlight the places where the "code execution path" is obscure. By now, you're looking at the disassembly of the decompressed system BIOS of the Foxconn motherboard. ### 5.1.3.1. Entry Point from the "Boot Block in RAM" This is where the boot block jumps after relocating and write-protecting the system BIOS. [10] The starting address is in the form of a physical address. [11] The 4000h value is the destination segment of the LHA header of the compressed component. [12] This image of the BIOS binary is already copied to RAM at 30_0000h-37_FFFFh. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 110 Context: # Figure 5.2 Foxconn 955X7AA-SKRS2 BIOS mapping within a hex editor Figures 5.1 and 5.2 are tightly coupled. Thus, you must remember that the last 128 KB of the BIOS binary is mapped into the 6000:FFFF address range in the hex editor and to the 0000:0000-2000 address range in system address map. Note that this mapping only applies just after power-on. It's the default power-on value for the chipset. It's not guaranteed to remain valid after the chipset is reprogrammed by the BIOS. However, the mapping in Figures 5.1 and 5.2 applies while the BIOS code execution is still in the boot block and hasn't been copied to RAM. Look at the details of the mapping of compressed components in Foxconn Award BIOS inside a hex editor. The mapping is as follows: 1. `0_0000h–1_4DEBh`: `abpf150.bin`. This is the system BIOS. 2. `1_4DEBh–1_22EFh`: `awardext.rom`. This is an extension to the system BIOS. The routines within this module are called from the system BIOS. 3. `1_22EFh–1_FF30h`: `acpi.bin`. This is the advanced configuration and power interface table. 4. `1_FF31h–2_0000h`: `awardbmp.bmp`. This is the award logo. 5. `2_0000h–2_5A16h`: `awardym.rom`. This component is also an extension to the system BIOS. 6. `2_5A17h–2_7F8h`: `en_code.bin`. This module stores the words used in the BIOS setup menu. 7. `2_7F8h–2_88D0h`: `item.bin`. This module contains the values related to items in the BIOS setup menu. 8. `2_88D0h–2_F2F3h`: `5209.bin`. This is an expansion ROM for an onboard device. 9. `2_F2F3h–3_62B8h`: `18212.bin`. This is an expansion ROM for an onboard device. 10. `3_62B8h–3_F34Bh`: `5879exp.rom`. This is an expansion ROM for an onboard device. 11. `3_F34Bh–4_87C0h`: `raid_or.bin`. This is an expansion ROM for the RAID controller. 12. `4_87C0h–4_C68Bh`: `cprf118.bin`. This is an expansion ROM for an onboard device. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 563 Context: ata2 at port 0×170-0×177,0×376 irq 15 on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0×60,0×64 on isa0 vga0: at port 0×3b0-0×3bb iomem 0xb0000-0xb7fff on isa0 sc0: at flags 0×100 on isa0 sc0: MDA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0×100> pcic0: at port 0×3e0 iomem 0xd0000 irq 10 on isa0 pcic0: management irq 11 pcic0: Polling mode pccard0: on pcic0 pccard1: on pcic0 sio0 at port 0×3f8-0×3ff irq 4 flags 0×90 on isa0 (irrelevant boot log removed)... Notice the following lines from listing 14.2: pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 These lines clearly state that the motherboard in Juniper M7i is based on the Intel 440BX chipset. You might be confused; which is right, the BIOS "release number" logic or the logic shown in the boot log? I think the right one is the boot log because Juniper Networks is big enough company that it could have asked Award to make a custom BIOS when Juniper M7i was developed. Award must have used a different BIOS "release number" scheme for the Juniper router even though it's also an x86 platform, much like desktops or servers. From the preceding information, you can conclude the there is a possibility to attack Juniper M7i with a BIOS rootkit. However, because the API for this router is not known publicly, it's hard to infect an operational Juniper M7i with a BIOS rootkit. Attacking a router such as Juniper M7i will require reverse engineering of JunOS—the operating system of the Juniper Networks router. The reverse engineering process is needed to figure out the API to access the hardware in a running Juniper M7i router. Some routers and hardware-based firewalls made by Cisco Systems also use embedded x86 as their platform—for example, the Cisco PIX series firewall. There are numerous other examples of network appliances based on embedded x86. The basic architecture of these systems is similar to that shown in figure 14.3. Most of them use customized BIOS; probably a modified version of the commodity BIOS from desktop or server platforms. 14.2.3. Kiosk This subsection talks about the typical implementation of an x86-based kiosk. The term kiosk in this context refers to a point-of-sale or point-of-service (POS) device. POS devices include automatic teller machines (ATMs), and cash registers. In recent years, increasing numbers of POS devices have become x86-based, because the overall cost/performance ratio is better than that for other architecture. Figure 14.14 shows a typical POS device—an ATM. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 165 Context: Figure 5.5 AMI BIOS binary mapping to system address space ======================== Figure 5.5 shows the mapping of the BIOS binary components in the system-wide address space of the respective motherboard. Note that the chipset discussed here is different from the one dissected in the Award BIOS section. The current chipset (Intel 865PE) only supports 4-GB addressing. That's why you don't see any mapping for an address range above the 4-GB limit in figure 5.5. I won't explain the mapping of the binary in detail because you see it from a hex editor and other binary mapping-related concepts. Please refer to section 5.1.1 in the Award BIOS section for that. You will be able to infer it on your own once you've grasped the concept explained there. ## 5.2.2. AMI BIOS Tools AMI BIOS tools are not as widespread and complete as Award BIOS tools. AMI BIOS tools also can be harder to work with compared to Award BIOS tools. AMI BIOS tools found freely on the Web are as follows: - **Ambic**: A BIOS modification tool made by American Megatrends, the maker of AMI BIOS. This tool comes in several versions. Every version of the tool has its corresponding AMI BIOS code base that it can work with. If the code base version of the BIOS doesn't match the AMIBCP version, you can't modify the BIOS binary. AMIBCP allows you to change the values of the BIOS setup with it. However, altering the system BIOS in a more complicated modification is quite hard even with this tool. - **Amideco**: The AMI BIOS binary decompressor, coded by Russian programmer Anton Borisov. This tool can show the compressed modules within the AMI BIOS binary, and it can decompress the compressed module within the BIOS binary. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 574 Context: 15.1.2. BIOS Vendors Roadmap This subsection should’ve given a glimpse over the roadmap of BIOS vendors. Nevertheless, I focus to explain the EFI/UEFI products of some vendors because that’s definitely the direction of BIOS technology. Now, let me show you what AMI has up in its sleeve. AMI has several products that implement EFI specification. There’s no product yet that conforms to UEFI specification. Therefore, I talk about these products first to see where AMI is heading. The EFI-related products are as follows: 1. AMI Aptio; Aptio is an EFI 1.10-compliant firmware code-base written in C language. The structure of the latest Aptio firmware code-base as per its specification document is as follows: a. It has a porting template, which eases the process of porting code into different platforms. Note: EFI is a cross-platform firmware interface. b. The directories are structured as board, chipset and core functional directories. c. It’s using a table-based initialization method. d. It incorporates compatibility support module (CSM), which provides routines to support legacy BIOS interfaces that might be needed by operating system running in the target system. e. Support for AMI hidden disk partition (HDP). Recall from subsection 15.1.1, HDP is used by EFI-compliant firmware to store some of its data—HDP is shown as UEFI system partition in figure 15.2. f. It supports Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) version 2.0. g. Some other features that are not mentioned here. 2. AMI Enterprise64 BIOS, this is an EFI 1.1-compliant firmware used in Itanium systems. 3. AMI Pre-Boot Applications (PBA); it is a suit of EFI applications and tools that are stored in AMI HDP—HDP is analogue to UEFI system partition in UEFI terms. Recall from figure 15.3, AMI PBA is an EFI/UEFI application. AMI provides the following applications in AMI PBA: a. AMI Rescue and Rescue Plus: Image-based and non-destructive system recovery utility. b. Web browser c. Diagnostic utilities d. BIOS upgrade e. Hidden partition backup and restore AMI Aptio actually has a TCG standard-compliant module. This module is implemented as an EFI/UEFI driver. Based on the latest publicly available AMI Aptio specification, this module is still under development. Looking at the various products from AMI, it’s clear that AMI is heading into the future with EFI/UEFI-based firmware, along with its value-added applications. If you look at the publication dateof the UEFI specification—31 January 2006—and compare it to the current state in AMI firmware offering, you will realize that the UEFI-compliant products must be still under development. Moreover, AMI #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 227 Context: Part III Expansion ROM Chapter 7 PCI Expansion ROM Software Development PREVIEW This chapter is devoted to explaining the development of PCI expansion ROM. I start with the prerequisite knowledge, i.e., an explanation of the Plug and Play (PnP) BIOS architecture and PCI expansion ROM architecture, both hardware and software. Then, I proceed to develop a straightforward PCI expansion ROM example. The material in this chapter has been published in CodeBreakers Journal1 7.1. PnP BIOS and Expansion ROM Architecture You learned in chapter 1 that expansion ROMs are initialized during POST execution. The card's expansion ROMs were called by the system BIOS to initialize the card properly before the loading of the operating system. 7.1.1. PnP BIOS Architecture This section does not provide a complete explanation of the PnP BIOS architecture. It only explains the parts of the PnP BIOS architecture necessary to develop a PCI expansion ROM. These parts are the specification of the initialization code that resides in the expansion cards and the specification of the bootstrap process, i.e., transferring control from the BIOS to the operating system after the BIOS has finished initializing the system. Initialization of option ROM is part of the POST routine in the system BIOS. The related information from the "Plug and Play BIOS Specification, version 1.0A" is provided in the next sections. POST Execution Flow The following steps outline a typical flow of a Plug and Play system BIOS POST. . . . 1 Low Cost Embedded x86 Teaching Tool, The CodeBreakers Journal Volume 1 Issue 1, 2006 1 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: iiCONTENTS7.2ADifferentCostfunction:LogisticRegression..........377.3TheIdeaInaNutshell........................388SupportVectorMachines398.1TheNon-Separablecase......................439SupportVectorRegression4710KernelridgeRegression5110.1KernelRidgeRegression......................5210.2Analternativederivation......................5311KernelK-meansandSpectralClustering5512KernelPrincipalComponentsAnalysis5912.1CenteringDatainFeatureSpace..................6113FisherLinearDiscriminantAnalysis6313.1KernelFisherLDA.........................6613.2AConstrainedConvexProgrammingFormulationofFDA....6814KernelCanonicalCorrelationAnalysis6914.1KernelCCA.............................71AEssentialsofConvexOptimization73A.1Lagrangiansandallthat.......................73BKernelDesign77B.1PolynomialsKernels........................77B.2AllSubsetsKernel.........................78B.3TheGaussianKernel........................79 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 215 Context: 1. Reverse engineer the Award BIOS with IDA Pro disassembler to locate the POST jump table in the system BIOS. It's recommended that you start the reverse engineering process in the boot block and proceed to the system BIOS. However, as a shortcut, you can jump right into the entry point of the decompressed system BIOS at F000:F80Dh. 2. Analyze the POST jump table; find a jump to dummy procedure. If you find one, continue to next step; otherwise, stop here because it's not possible to carry out this code injection method in the BIOS. 3. Assemble the custom procedure using FASMW. Note the resulting binary size. Try to minimize the injected code size to ensure that the injected code will fit into the "free space" of the system BIOS. The "free space" is the padding-bytes section of the system BIOS. 4. Use modbin to extract the genuine system BIOS from the BIOS binary file. 5. Use hex editor to analyze the system BIOS to look for padding bytes, where you can inject code. If you don't find a suitable area, you're out of luck and cannot proceed to injecting code. However, the latter is the seldom case. 6. Inject the assembled custom procedure to the extracted system BIOS by using the hex editor. 7. Use a hex editor to modify the POST jump table to include a jump to the procedure. 8. Use modbin to pack the modified system BIOS into the BIOS binary. 9. Flash the modified BIOS binary to the motherboard. As a sample code-injection case study, I will show you how to build a patch for Iwill VD133 motherboard BIOS. The BIOS date is July 28, 2000, and the file name is vd30728.bin. A motherboard is based on the VIA 693A-596B chipset. This patch has been tested thoroughly and works perfectly. The BIOS of this motherboard is based on the older Award BIOS version 4.50PG code. However, as you have learned, this code injection procedure is portable among Award BIOS versions because all versions use the POST jump table to execute POST. Proceed as explained in the code injection steps earlier. 6.2.1. Locating the POST Jump Table I won't go into detail explaining how to find the POST jump table in Award BIOS version 4.50PG. It's a trivial task after you've learned the Award BIOS reverse engineering procedure detailed in the previous chapter. One hint, though: decompress the system BIOS and go directly to the system BIOS entry point at F000:F80Dh to start searching for the POST jump table. You will find the POST jump table shown in listing 6.1. Listing 6.1 Iwill VD133 POST Jump Table E000:61C2 Begin_E000_POST_Jmp_Table E000:61C2 dw 154Eh ; Restore warm-boot flag 7 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 247 Context: 7.3.2. Software Development Tool I needed three kinds of software for the development of this sample: 1. A development environment that provides a compiler, assembler, and linker for x86. I used GNU software, i.e., GNU AS assembler, GNU LD linker, GNU GCC compiler, and GNU Make. These development tools were running on Slackware Linux 9.0 in the development PC. I used Vi as the editor and Bourne Again Shell (bash) to run these tools. Note that the GNU LD linker must support the ELF object file format to be able to compile the sample source code (provided in a later section). Generally, all Linux distribution supports this object file format by default. As an addition, I used a hex dump utility in Linux to inspect the result of the development. 2. A PCI PnP expansion ROM checksum patcher. As shown in section 7.1, a valid PCI expansion ROM has many checksum values that need to be fulfilled. Because the development environment cannot provide that, I developed a custom tool for it. The source code of this tool is provided in a later section. 3. An Adaptec PCI expansion ROM flash utility for AHA-2940UW. The utility is named flash4.exe; it comes with the Adaptec AHA-2940UW BIOS version 2.57.2 distribution. It's used to flash the custom-made expansion ROM code into the flash ROM of the card. I used a bootable CD-ROM to access real-mode DOS and invoke the flash utility; it also needs DOS4GW. DOS4GW is provided with the Adaptec PCI BIOS distribution. 7.3.3. Expansion ROM Source Code The basic rundown of what happens when the compiled source code executed is as follows: 1. During POST, the system BIOS look for implemented PCI expansion ROMs from every PCI expansion card by testing the XROMBAR of each card. If it is implemented,9 then system BIOS will copy the PCI expansion ROM from the address pointed to by the XROMBAR, i.e., the expansion ROM chip to RAM in the expansion ROM area.10 Then the system BIOS will jump to the INIT function of the PCI expansion ROM. After the PCI expansion ROM has done its initialization, execution is back to the system BIOS. The system BIOS will check the runtime size of the PCI expansion ROM that was initialized previously. It will 9 XROMBAR consumed address space. 10 Expansion ROM area in RAM is at the C0000h–DFFFFh physical address. 21 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 508 Context: The basic code flow of the interrupt 19h handler in Listing 12.20 is similar to that of the same handler in Award BIOS 4.51PG code. However, the details differ because Award BIOS 6.00PG code supports more boot devices than its older sibling does. The preceding explanation implies that when you are modifying the interrupt handler you are working with the system BIOS because the interrupt handler is located there. There is an issue in the newer Award BIOS 6.00PG. This BIOS cannot be modified with modbin version 2.01.01 as explained in chapter 6 because even if you alter the temporary system BIOS file that's decompressed by modbin when it's opening a BIOS binary, modbin won't include the changes in the output binary file. It will use the original (unmodified) system BIOS. However, there is a workaround for that. The basic principle of this workaround is to compress the modified system BIOS by using Cbrom and adding it to the overall BIOS binary as the "other" component that will be decompressed to segment 5000h when the BIOS executes.9 The details of this method are as follows: 1. Suppose that the name of the overall BIOS binary file is 865pe.bin and the name of the system BIOS file is system.bin. In this step, I assume that you have modified system.bin. You can obtain the original system.bin by opening 865pe.bin with modbin, copy the temporary system BIOS to a new file named system.bin, and subsequently modify it. 2. Extract all components of 865pe.bin except the system BIOS and place them in a temporary directory by using the suitable Cbrom command. For example, to extract awardext.rom, use cbrom 865pe.bin /other 407F:0 extract. 3. Release all components of 865pe.bin except the system BIOS and place them in a temporary directory by using the suitable Cbrom command. For example, to extract awardext.rom, use cbrom 865pe.bin /other 407F:0 release. At this point, the components left in 865pe.bin are the system BIOS, the boot block, and the decompression block. 4. Compress system.bin and add it as a new component to 865pe.bin by using Cbrom with the following command: cbrom 865pe.bin /other 5000:0 system.bin. This step compresses system.bin and places it inside 865pe.bin next to the original system BIOS. 5. Open 865pe.bin with a hex editor and copy the compressed system.bin inside 865pe.bin into a new binary file. Then close the hex editor. You can give this new file a *.lha extension because it's an LHA compressed file. Then release the compressed system.bin from 865pe.bin by using Cbrom with the following command: cbrom 865pe.bin /other 5000:0 release 6. Open 865pe.bin with the hex editor again—at this point, the compressed system.bin is not inside 865pe.bin because it has been released. Then replace the 9 Recall from section 5.1.2.7 that the system BIOS is decompressed to section 5000h because its header indicates that segment as the destination segment for the compressed system BIOS when it is decompressed. #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: AMACHINEMADETHISBOOKtensketchesofcomputerscience #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 66 Context: 52Chapter4.LookingandFindingProblemsSolutionsonpage153.1.Runthesearchprocedureagainstthefollowingpatternsandthistext:ThesourceofsorrowistheselfitselfWhathappenseachtime?a)cowb)rowc)selfd)the2.Considerthefollowingkindofadvancedpatternsyntaxandgiveexampletextswhichmatchthefollowingpatterns.Aquestionmark?indicatesthatzerooroneofthepreviousletteristobematched;anasterisk*indicateszeroormore;aplussign+indicatesoneormore.Parenthesesaroundtwolettersseparatedbya|alloweitherlettertooccur.Theletters?,+,and*mayfollowsuchaclosingparenthesis,withtheeffectofoperatingonwhicheverletterischosen.a)aa+b)ab?cc)ab*cd)a(b|c)*d3.Assumingwehaveaversionofsearchwhichworksfortheseadvancedpatterns,givetheresultsofrunningitonthesametextasinProblem1.a)r+owb)(T|t)hec)(T|t)?hed)(T|t)*he #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 575 Context: # AMI UEFI-Compliant Products Roadmap (Forecast) AMI states in its whitepaper that it uses the so-called AMI Visual eBIOS development environment to develop the current generation of BIOS-related software. This development environment speeds-up BIOS-related software development compared to the DOS-based tools used in the previous generation of software produced by AMI. At the moment, AMI still produces AMI BIOS for its customers—the motherboard makers such as Gigabyte, DFI, etc. Nevertheless, it provides a seamless migration path to UEFI-based implementation in the future due to the modularity of AMI BIOS. The explanations about AMI EFI/UEFI products give us a glimpse over the future of BIOS-related products from AMI. I summarize them in figure 15.4. ![Figure 15.4 AMI UEFI-compliant products roadmap (forecast)](image-link) ## Future AMI BIOS products for desktop and server - **AMI Aptio-based products** - Gradual migration to UEFI-compliant code base - Minor changes from EFI-compliant to UEFI-compliant code base - **Future AMI Aptio-based products** - **AMI Enterprise64 BIOS** - Minor changes from EFI-compliant to UEFI-compliant code base - **Future AMI Enterprise64 BIOS products** - **AMI Pre-Boot Applications (PBA)** - Minor changes from EFI-compliant to UEFI-compliant code base - Development of new value-added AMI Pre-Boot Applications - **Future AMI Pre-Boot Applications** Note that figure 15.4 is only my forecast; it may not turn out like this forecast in the real world. I provide this forecast because AMI hasn’t released any document regarding their product roadmap to the public. Now is the time to look at another big firmware vendor in desktop, server, mobile, and embedded field, Phoenix Technologies. Phoenix has broad product offerings that utilize EFI/UEFI technologies. All of those products are based on the so-called Core System Software (CSS). The products are even marketed under the TrustedCore name, the exact naming as follows: 1. TrustedCore Server & Embedded Server for server applications 2. TrustedCore Embedded for embedded system applications 3. TrustedCore Desktop for desktop platforms #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 16 Context: themselves; it is biased toward BIOS implementation-related issues, particularly the programming model employed in the respective bus protocol. First, it delves into the system-wide addressing scheme in contemporary systems. This role is fulfilled by the chipset. Thus, a specific implementation is used as an example. 1.4.1. System-wide Addressing If you have never been playing around with system-level programming, you might find it hard to understand the organization of the overall physical memory address space in x86 architecture. It must be noted that RAM is not the only hardware that uses the processor memory address space; some other hardware is also mapped to the processor memory address space. This memory-mapped hardware includes PCI devices, PCI Express devices, HyperTransport devices, the advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC), the video graphics array (VGA) device, and the BIOS ROM chip. It's the responsibility of the chipset to divide the x86 processor memory address space for RAM and other memory-mapped hardware devices. Among the motherboard chipsets, the northbridge is responsible for this system address-space organization, particularly its memory controller part. The memory controller decides where to forward a read or write request from the CPU to a certain memory address. This operation can be forwarded to RAM, memory-mapped VGA RAM, or the southbridge; it depends on the system configuration. If the northbridge is embedded inside the CPU itself, like in the AMD Athlon 64/Opteron architecture, the CPU decides where to forward these requests. The influence of the bus protocol employed in x86 architecture to the system address map is enormous. To appreciate this, analyze a sample implementation in the form of a PCI Express chipset, Intel 955X-ICH7(R). This chipset is used with Intel Pentium 4 processors that support IA-32E and are capable of addressing RAM above the 4-GB limit. 8 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: 19fallunderthename”reinforcementlearning”.Itisaverygeneralsetupinwhichalmostallknowncasesofmachinelearningcanbecast,butthisgeneralityalsomeansthatthesetypeofproblemscanbeverydifficult.ThemostgeneralRLproblemsdonotevenassumethatyouknowwhattheworldlookslike(i.e.themazeforthemouse),soyouhavetosimultaneouslylearnamodeloftheworldandsolveyourtaskinit.Thisdualtaskinducesinterestingtrade-offs:shouldyouinvesttimenowtolearnmachinelearningandreapthebenefitlaterintermsofahighsalaryworkingforYahoo!,orshouldyoustopinvestingnowandstartexploitingwhatyouhavelearnedsofar?Thisisclearlyafunctionofage,orthetimehorizonthatyoustillhavetotakeadvantageoftheseinvestments.Themouseissimilarlyconfrontedwiththeproblemofwhetherheshouldtryoutthisnewalleyinthemazethatcancutdownhistimetoreachthecheeseconsiderably,orwhetherheshouldsimplystaywithhehaslearnedandtaketheroutehealreadyknows.Thisclearlydependsonhowoftenhethinkshewillhavetorunthroughthesamemazeinthefuture.Wecallthistheexplorationversusexploitationtrade-off.ThereasonthatRLisaveryexcitingfieldofresearchisbecauseofitsbiologicalrelevance.Dowenotalsohavefigureouthowtheworldworksandsurviveinit?Let’sgobacktothenews-articles.Assumewehavecontroloverwhatarticlewewilllabelnext.Whichonewouldbepick.Surelytheonethatwouldbemostinformativeinsomesuitablydefinedsense.Orthemouseinthemaze.Giventhatdecidestoexplore,wheredoesheexplore?Surelyhewilltrytoseekoutalleysthatlookpromising,i.e.alleysthatheexpectstomaximizehisreward.Wecalltheproblemoffindingthenextbestdata-casetoinvestigate“activelearning”.Onemayalsobefacedwithlearningmultipletasksatthesametime.Thesetasksarerelatedbutnotidentical.Forinstance,considertheproblemifrecom-mendingmoviestocustomersofNetflix.Eachpersonisdifferentandwouldre-allyrequireaseparatemodeltomaketherecommendations.However,peoplealsosharecommonalities,especiallywhenpeopleshowevidenceofbeingofthesame“type”(forexampleasffanoracomedyfan).Wecanlearnpersonalizedmodelsbutsharefeaturesbetweenthem.Especiallyfornewcustomers,wherewedon’thaveaccess #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 36 Context: ``` ## Figure 2.8 IDA Pro workspace Up to this point, you have been able to open the binary file within IDA Pro. This is not a trivial task for people new to IDA Pro. That's why it's presented in a step-by-step fashion. However, the output in the workspace is not yet usable. The next step is learning the scripting facility that IDA Pro provides to make sense of the disassembly database that IDA Pro generates. ### 2.3 IDA Pro Scripting and Key Bindings Try to decipher the IDA Pro disassembly database shown in the previous section with the help of the scripting facility. Before you proceed to analyzing the binary, you have to learn some basic concepts about the IDA Pro scripting facility: IDA Pro script syntax is similar to the C programming language. The syntax is as follows: ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 411 Context: Figure 11.1 BIOS security option in DFI 865PE Infinity motherboard The password protection code implemented in BIOS is quite easy to break. There are two methods to break this password protection mechanism. The first one is to carry out a brute-force attack to the CMOS chip2 content, invalidating the CMOS chip checksum. (From this point on, I refer to the CMOS chip as simply CMOS.) With this method, you reset the contents of the CMOS to their default values, thereby disabling the password upon next boot. The second one is to read the password directly from the BIOS data area (BDA). Nevertheless, the second method is not guaranteed to work all the time. Endrazine described these methods in a SecurityFocus article.3 However, the person who discovered and shared these methods with the public for the first time was Christophe Grenier.4 I show you the implementation of these methods in Windows and Linux later. I explain the methods one by one. 11.1.1 Invalidating the CMOS Checksum The first method to circumvent BIOS password protection is to invalidate the CMOS checksum. This method works only if the machine is already booted into the operating system. This way, you invalidate the CMOS checksum within the context of the operating system. If the machine is not powered, this method is not usable because the BIOS will ask for the password before it's booted to the operating system. CMOS contents consist of at least 128 bytes of BIOS setting data. They are accessible through physical ports 0x705 and 0x71.6 Nevertheless, some motherboards use more than 128 bytes. There are three bytes of interest among the 128 bytes in CMOS, i.e., the bytes at offsets 0xE, 0x2E, and 0x2F. Offset 0xE contains the status of the CMOS, including the CMOS checksum; offset 0x2E contains the high-order byte of the CMOS checksum; and offset 0x2F contains the low-order byte of the CMOS checksum. Start with offset 0xE, which has a size of 1 byte. This offset contains CMOS diagnostic status. The meaning of each bit is as follows: • Bit 7—Real time clock power status (0 = CMOS has not lost power, 1 = CMOS has lost power) • Bit 6—CMOS checksum status (0 = checksum is good, 1 = checksum is bad) • Bit 5—POST configuration information status (0 = configuration information is valid, 1 = configuration information in invalid) • Bit 4—Memory size compare during POST (0 = POST memory equals configuration, 1 = POST memory does not equal configuration) 2 The chip that stores the BIOS setting. 3 See the article titled "BIOS Information Leakage" at http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded. 4 See Grenier's website at http://www.cgsecurity.org. 5 Port 0x70 acts as the "address port," used to address the contents of the CMOS. 6 Port 0x71 acts as the "data port," used to read/write 1 byte from/into the CMOS chip. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 81 Context: Chapter14KernelCanonicalCorrelationAnalysisImagineyouaregiven2copiesofacorpusofdocuments,onewritteninEnglish,theotherwritteninGerman.Youmayconsideranarbitraryrepresentationofthedocuments,butfordefinitenesswewillusethe“vectorspace”representationwherethereisanentryforeverypossiblewordinthevocabularyandadocumentisrepresentedbycountvaluesforeveryword,i.e.iftheword“theappeared12timesandthefirstwordinthevocabularywehaveX1(doc)=12etc.Let’ssayweareinterestedinextractinglowdimensionalrepresentationsforeachdocument.Ifwehadonlyonelanguage,wecouldconsiderrunningPCAtoextractdirectionsinwordspacethatcarrymostofthevariance.Thishastheabilitytoinfersemanticrelationsbetweenthewordssuchassynonymy,becauseifwordstendtoco-occuroftenindocuments,i.e.theyarehighlycorrelated,theytendtobecombinedintoasingledimensioninthenewspace.Thesespacescanoftenbeinterpretedastopicspaces.Ifwehavetwotranslations,wecantrytofindprojectionsofeachrepresenta-tionseparatelysuchthattheprojectionsaremaximallycorrelated.Hopefully,thisimpliesthattheyrepresentthesametopicintwodifferentlanguages.Inthiswaywecanextractlanguageindependenttopics.LetxbeadocumentinEnglishandyadocumentinGerman.Considertheprojections:u=aTxandv=bTy.Alsoassumethatthedatahavezeromean.Wenowconsiderthefollowingobjective,ρ=E[uv]pE[u2]E[v2](14.1)69 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 130 Context: systdecomprt compressed E_seg and F_seg located in RAM at 1000the bootaddress appropri 3. 4. *BBSS*segment 5. ed BIOS components by invoking the decompression gdecdeced and expansion area dechave to remember that the dec6. Shacomtine then copies the decompressed system BIOS from . em BIOS later relocated to E000:0000h–F000:FFFFh in RAM. However, if ession process failed, the curren0:000h–2000:FFFFh5 will be relocated to E000:0000h–F000:0000h in RAM. Then block error handling code will be executed. Note that the problems because of aliasing and DRAM shadowing are handled during the relocation by setting the ate chipset registers. Below is the basic rundown of this routine: 1. Early in the boot block execution, configure the northbridge and southbridge registers to enable FFF0_0000h–FFFF_FFFFh decoding. The LPC bridge will forward access to this address to the BIOS ROM chip. The LPC bridge's firmware hub that decodes control registers6 is in charge here. 2. Copy all BIOS code from FFF8_0000h–FFFF_FFFFh in the ROM chip into 30_0000h–37_FFFFh in RAM. Verify the checksum of the whole compressed BIOS image. Calculate the 8-bit checksum of the copied compressed BIOS image in RAM (i.e., 30_0000h–36_BFFDh) and compare the result against the result stored in 36_BFFEh. If the 8-bit checksum doesn't match, then stop the decompression process and go to chk_sum_error; otherwise, continue the decompression routine. Look for the decompression engine by looking for string in 1000h. This segment is the copy of segment E000h7 in RAM. This part is different from Award BIOS version 4.50 code. In that version, the decompression engine is located in segment 2000h, i.e., the copy of segment F000h in RAM. Decompress the compressenine from the previous step. Note that at this stage only the system BIOS is ompressed. The other component is treated in different fashion. The ompress routine only processes the decompressinformation then puts it in RAM near 0000:6000h. I delve into the details of the ompression routines later. In this step you only decompressed system BIOS will be located at 5000:0000h–6000:FFFFh after the ompression process finished successfully. dow the BIOS code. Assuming that the decompression routine successfully is pleted, the preceding rou5000:0000h–6000:FFFFh in RAM to E_0000h–F_FFFFh, also in RAM. This is accomplished as follows: • Reprogram the northbridge shadow RAM control register to enable write only into E_0000h–F_FFFFh, i.e., forward the write operation into this address range to DRAM, no longer to the BIOS ROM chip 5 The copies of E_seg and F_seg will be relocated, along with the copy of the boot block, in RAM. 6 The firmware hub control registers are located in Device 31 Function 0 Offset D8h, D9h, and DCh. 7 Segment E000h is an alias of the 64-KB code located at FFFE_0000h–FFFE_FFFFh. 24 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 268 Context: # Chapter 8 PCI Expansion ROM Reverse Engineering ## PREVIEW This chapter is devoted to explaining PCI expansion ROM reverse engineering. You learned the structure of the PCI expansion ROM in the previous chapter. Thus, it will be straightforward to do the reverse engineering. However, I note some differences among different PCI expansion ROMs. ### 8.1. Binary Architecture In the previous chapter, you learned about PCI expansion ROM structure. The structure of such a binary is summarized in Figure 8.1. ![Figure 8.1 PCI Expansion ROM Binary Layout](path/to/image.png) - **Initialization length** - **ROM length** - **Runtime binary length** - **Padding Bytes** 1. **Basic ROM Header** 2. **Protocol Specific Data Structure** 3. **Runtime Code** 4. **Initialization Code** 5. **Checksum** #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 34 Context: # Please confirm ![Figure 2.6 Intel x86-compatible processor mode selections](image_path.jpg) This dialog box asks you to choose the default operating mode of the x86-compatible processor during the disassembling process. AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming, February 2005, section 14.1.5, page 417, states the following: > After a RESET or INIT, the processor is operating in 16-bit real mode. In addition, IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual Volume 3: System Programming Guide 2004, section 9.1.1, states the following: | Table 9-1 | The state of the flags and other registers following power-up for the Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, P6 family, and Pentium processors. The state of control register CR0 is 00000000H (see Figure 9-1), which places the processor in real-address mode with paging disabled. | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Thus, you can conclude that any x86-compatible processor will start its execution in 16-bit real mode just after power-up, and you have to choose 16-bit mode in this dialog box. It's accomplished by clicking No in the dialog box. Then, the dialog box in figure 2.7 pops up. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 484 Context: # Figure 12.7 Working principles of the altered interrupt 13h handler Figures 12.8 and 12.9 show how the principle is applied to interrupt 19h. ## Interrupt 19h handler before being altered by rootkit ### bootstrap example: 1. **At 19h** - Read the MBR from HDD, boot sector from floppy, or boot sector from other bootable media into 0000:7C00. - Jumps into it to start executing the OS. - Sometimes it's not the real OS, but an OS boot loader code. ![Loading boot sector/MBR code to RAM](path_to_image) ## Figure 12.8 Working principles of the original interrupt 19h handler --- ## Interrupt 19h handler after being altered by rootkit ### bootstrap example: 1. **At 19h** - Read the MBR from HDD, boot sector from floppy, or boot sector from other bootable media into 0000:7C00. - Place the OS boot loader in memory so that it will call your **custom code** (or whatever the kernel is told to modify). - Jump into the modified OS boot loader. ![Loading boot sector or MBR code to RAM](path_to_image) ## Figure 12.9 Working principles of the altered interrupt 19h handler --- The next two subsections focus on the technique to locate the interrupt 13h handler and interrupt 19h handler within the BIOS binary. Interrupt 13h handles disk-related activity—a rootkit developer is particularly interested in the disk sector's loading routine. Interrupt 19h is the bootstrap loader; it loads the operating system code to RAM and jumps into it to start operating system execution. The explanations in those sections are focused on Award BIOS. Note that the principles are applicable to the BIOS from other vendors; however, the techniques may vary. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 548 Context: ![EBIOS browser screenshot (courtesy of Elegant Technologies)](image_url) # EBIOS Overview Some systems using eBIOS are also equipped with an eBIOS-compatible TV tuner to enable TV content playback. Now, you likely have grasped the basic idea of eBIOS. It's time to explore the technical details. I start with the Acorp 486SGQET BIOS binary. I use BIOS version 1.4 for this motherboard; the date of the BIOS is August 19, 2004. This BIOS binary is Award BIOS 6.00PG with eBIOS as one of its components. The size of the binary file is 512 KB. The layout of the components is shown in figure 14.9. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 527 Context: port directly. If the attackers use a kernel function to carry out the PCI bus transactions, you can filter it, akin to the method explained in the previous method. Both of the preceding hypothetical prevention methods work only if the attackers don't have physical access to the machine. If they do, they can install the rootkit by rebooting the machine to an unsecured operating system, such as DOS, and reflash the PCI expansion ROM with an infected PCI expansion ROM binary. The previous explanation clarifies the issue of preventing PCI expansion ROM–based attacks. You can conclude that it's still a weak point in the defense against a firmware-level security threat. In the future, when hardware-level protection similar to the BLR in the motherboard BIOS chip is implemented in the PCI expansion ROM chip, implementing a protection mechanism in the PCI expansion card will be easier for hardware vendors and third-party companies. 13.1.4. Miscellaneous BIOS-Related Defense Methods There are some prevention methods in addition to those I have talked about in the previous subsections. I will explain one of them, the Phoenix TrustedCore BIOS. This type of BIOS has just entered the market. It's worth exploring in this subsection because it gives a glimpse into the future of BIOS protection against malicious code. In coming years, BIOS implementation will be more secure than most BIOS currently on the market. This is because of the industry-wide adoption of standards by Trusted Computing Group (TCG), such as the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and the TPM Software Stack (TSS). The Phoenix TrustedCore BIOS is one BIOS implementation that adheres to standards by TCG. TCG standards are quite hard to understand. Therefore, I give an overview of them before moving to Phoenix-specific implementation—the Phoenix TrustedCore. TCG standards consist of many documents. It's not easy to grasp the documentation effectively. Figure 13.3 shows the steps for reading the TCG standards documents to understand their implementation in PC architecture. ########## """QUERY: You are a super intelligent assistant. Please answer all my questions precisely and comprehensively. Through our system KIOS you have a Knowledge Base named 12.11 test with all the informations that the user requests. In this knowledge base are following Documents A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF).pdf, A MACHINE MADE THIS BOOK ten sketches of computer science - JOHN WHITINGTON (PDF).pdf, BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered 1st Edition - Darmawan Salihun (PDF) BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf, Advanced Algebra - Anthony W. Knapp (PDF).pdf This is the initial message to start the chat. Based on the following summary/context you should formulate an initial message greeting the user with the following user name [Gender] [Vorname] [Surname] tell them that you are the AI Chatbot Simon using the Large Language Model [Used Model] to answer all questions. Formulate the initial message in the Usersettings Language German Please use the following context to suggest some questions or topics to chat about this knowledge base. List at least 3-10 possible topics or suggestions up and use emojis. The chat should be professional and in business terms. At the end ask an open question what the user would like to check on the list. Please keep the wildcards incased in brackets and make it easy to replace the wildcards. The provided context consists of excerpts from various PDF files, primarily focusing on computer science and BIOS reverse engineering. Here's a summary of each file: **File: A MACHINE MADE THIS BOOK ten sketches of computer science - JOHN WHITINGTON (PDF).pdf** This book explores various aspects of computer science, starting from basic concepts like drawing lines and letters on a page to more complex topics like compression and programming. Each chapter delves into a specific area, providing practical examples and historical context. * **Chapter 1: Putting Marks on Paper:** Introduces the fundamental concepts of drawing lines and shapes on a page, using coordinates and units like points. * **Chapter 2: Letter Forms:** Explains how to draw letters from a typeface using curves and Bézier curves, highlighting the importance of typefaces in design. * **Chapter 3: Storing Words:** Discusses how computers represent human language, focusing on encoding systems like Unicode and markup languages. * **Chapter 4: Looking and Finding:** Introduces basic computer programming concepts through the example of searching for a word in a text, highlighting the importance of algorithms. * **Chapter 5: Typing it In:** Explores how to input text into a computer, covering typewriters, modern methods, and the challenges of typing Asian languages. * **Chapter 6: Saving Space:** Discusses compression techniques, explaining how to reduce the size of data without losing essential information. * **Chapter 7: Doing Sums:** Introduces programming concepts through the example of calculating sums and manipulating lists, culminating in a real program. * **Chapter 8: Grey Areas:** Explores the problem of reproducing grey tones using black ink on white paper, examining historical and modern methods. * **Chapter 9: Our Typeface:** Investigates the Palatino typeface, detailing its design and how letters are laid out on a page. * **Chapter 10: Words to Paragraphs:** Explains how to lay out a page by combining lines of letters into paragraphs, covering hyphenation, justification, and widow/orphan prevention. **File: A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF).pdf** This book provides an introductory guide to machine learning, focusing on intuitive explanations and practical examples. It covers various topics, from data representation and preprocessing to different types of machine learning algorithms. * **Chapter 1: Data and Information:** Introduces data representation and preprocessing techniques, including centering and scaling data. * **Chapter 2: Data Visualization:** Discusses methods for visualizing data to gain insights and understand patterns. * **Chapter 3: Learning:** Explains the core concept of learning in machine learning, emphasizing generalization and abstraction. * **Chapter 4: Types of Machine Learning:** Categorizes different types of machine learning, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. * **Chapter 5: Nearest Neighbors Classification:** Introduces the nearest neighbors algorithm for classification, providing a simple and intuitive approach. * **Chapter 6: The Naive Bayesian Classifier:** Explains the Naive Bayes model for classification, highlighting its assumptions and limitations. * **Chapter 7: The Perceptron:** Introduces the perceptron model for classification, a fundamental building block for neural networks. * **Chapter 8: Support Vector Machines:** Discusses support vector machines (SVMs) for classification, emphasizing their ability to handle non-linear data. * **Chapter 9: Support Vector Regression:** Introduces support vector regression (SVR) for predicting continuous values, highlighting its sparseness property. * **Chapter 10: Kernel Ridge Regression:** Explains kernel ridge regression for regression, a method that uses kernels to handle non-linear data. * **Chapter 11: Kernel K-means and Spectral Clustering:** Discusses kernel k-means and spectral clustering for unsupervised learning, focusing on grouping data points. * **Chapter 12: Kernel Principal Components Analysis:** Introduces kernel principal components analysis (KPCA) for dimensionality reduction, highlighting its ability to capture non-linear relationships. * **Chapter 13: Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis:** Explains Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FDA) for classification, emphasizing its use in finding optimal projections. * **Chapter 14: Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis:** Discusses kernel canonical correlation analysis (KCCA) for finding correlations between two sets of data. * **Appendix A: Essentials of Convex Optimization:** Provides a brief overview of convex optimization, including Lagrangian duality and KKT conditions. * **Appendix B: Kernel Design:** Discusses different types of kernels used in machine learning, including polynomial kernels, all subsets kernels, and Gaussian kernels. **File: BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered 1st Edition - Darmawan Salihun (PDF) BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf** This book provides a comprehensive guide to BIOS reverse engineering, covering various techniques and tools for analyzing BIOS binaries. It focuses on understanding the internal structure of BIOS, its execution mechanism, and how to modify it. * **Chapter 2: Preliminary Reverse Code Engineering:** Introduces basic reverse engineering techniques using IDA Pro disassembler, including binary scanning, scripting, and plugin development. * **Chapter 3: BIOS-Related Software Development:** Explains how to develop BIOS-related software using both assembly language and GCC, focusing on generating flat binary files. * **Chapter 4: Getting Acquainted With the System:** Provides an overview of the BIOS code execution mechanism, highlighting hardware peculiarities and address mapping. * **Chapter 5: Implementation of Motherboard BIOS:** Discusses how BIOS vendors implement BIOS, focusing on Award BIOS and its compression algorithms. * **Chapter 6: BIOS Patching and Modification:** Explains how to patch and modify BIOS binaries using various tools like cbrom and Modbin. * **Chapter 7: PCI Expansion ROM Reverse Engineering:** Covers the structure and reverse engineering of PCI expansion ROMs, highlighting their binary architecture and checksum calculation. * **Chapter 8: BIOS Security and Trusted Computing:** Discusses BIOS security and trusted computing concepts, focusing on the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) standards and their implementation. * **Chapter 9: BIOS Flashing and Programming:** Explains how to flash and program BIOS chips using various tools and techniques. * **Chapter 10: BIOS Rootkits and Malware:** Discusses BIOS rootkits and malware, highlighting their techniques and how to detect and remove them. * **Chapter 11: BIOS Debugging and Analysis:** Covers BIOS debugging and analysis techniques, including using debuggers and analyzing memory dumps. * **Chapter 12: BIOS Virtualization and Emulation:** Explains BIOS virtualization and emulation techniques, highlighting their use in testing and development. 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