Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU

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  • ghidra

    Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

  • Ghidra uses an intermediate language called p-code. When defining the CPU opcodes (and how to parse them), you also write a small snippet of p-code that represent that instruction. This makes the decompiler architecture agnostic.

    Example: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...

  • VW_Flash

    Flashing tools for VW AG control units over UDS. Compression, encryption, RSA bypass, and checksums are supported for Simos18.1/6/10, DQ250-MQB, DQ381-MQB, and Haldex4Motion-Gen5-MQB.

  • No, this EPS control module is remarkably primitive even by late 2000s standards and several generations behind today's state of the art.

    More modern control modules with a bit more resource available to them will use AES as the symmetric encryption (although there are also fixed-key XOR schemes and custom stuff used like this: https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash/blob/master/lib/decryptdsg... ).

    The keys and even IV are usually fixed across a "model line" of ECUs, so once a decrypted flash memory can be extracted, this isn't much of a protection measure, but it's a lot better than XOR.

    Then, in more modern control units, flash areas are also usually protected by both a checksum (usually some CRC permutation, although cute tweaks and random nonsense are common here too) and some form of digital signature.

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  • openpilot

    openpilot is an open source driver assistance system. openpilot performs the functions of Automated Lane Centering and Adaptive Cruise Control for 250+ supported car makes and models.

  • CAN commands are basically how comma.ai works, right?

    https://comma.ai/

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