EMBA v1.3.1 : Diff It – Unveiling The Firmware Diffing Mode And Latest Updates

What Happened Since The Last EMBA Release?

There was the absolute great #Hackersummercamp with our talks at BSidesLV, ICS Village (DEF CON) and Black Hat (Arsenal). The recording of the BSides talk is already available here. Beside this, Nate did a really great talk at BruCON – see h e re.

Beside a lot of code cleanup, bug fixing and some little improvements the new firmware diffing mode is one of the highlights in version 1.3.1.
In 1 day bug hunting, exploit development and the identification of silent patching it is quite common to identify the differences between two firmware releases.
To use this new feature (as usual in a very early alpha state) it is now possible to define a second firmware with the -o parameter. EMBA starts with some basic analysis of both firmware images, extracts both images and finds the differences between these firmware images:

If the file is some ASCII file a nice diff is shown:

If the file is a binary file we use radare2 for further analysis:

For further details check our Wiki

Happy bug hunting 🙂

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Check it out here and start being an essential part of the future of EMBA

What’s Changed

Internet check not blocking by @m-1-k-3 in #722
Fix docker build workflow by @m-1-k-3 in #723
disable disk space monitor by @m-1-k-3 in #724
print fix, http crawler by @m-1-k-3 in #732
Code cleanup by @m-1-k-3 in #733
Fix updater by @m-1-k-3 in #749
Unblob v23.8.11 by @m-1-k-3 in #750
PEM file with multiple certificates by @Ho x haEndri in #736
Update README.md by @m-1-k-3 in #757
add file-command to default deps by @BenediktMKuehne in #763
Update semgrep workflow by @m-1-k-3 in #764
Debian repos – https only for Kali by @m-1-k-3 in #766
Curl online check by @m-1-k-3 in #774
Improve PW cracking module s107 by @m-1-k-3 in #773
Check container nr disable for dev mode by @m-1-k-3 in #776
Set variable by @m-1-k-3 in #777
Installer updates by @m-1-k-3 in #779
fix gpt path by @m-1-k-3 in #789
Improve web page crawler by @m-1-k-3 in #7 9 5
little fix by @m-1-k-3 in #796
disable the trickest exploit db by @m-1-k-3 in #797
Debian installer support by @m-1-k-3 in #798
grep -v -> tail by @m-1-k-3 in #812
Proxy support by @m-1-k-3 in #811
Firmware diffing preparation by @m-1-k-3 in #804
nikto setup, compose cleanup by @m-1-k-3 in #814
System emulation fs mount improvements by @m-1-k-3 in #815
L10 Fix SC2250 shellcheck by @HoxhaEndri in #822
Installer debian package file format by @m-1-k-3 in #826
Cleanup of PS crawler by @m-1-k-3 in #833
Check for arachni user and shellcheck braces by @HoxhaEndri in #834
Try cve db update multiple times during installation by @m-1-k-3 in #837
Firmware diffing modules by @m-1-k-3 in #838
fix #839 by @m-1-k-3 in #844
Semgrep checks and shellcheck braces checks by @HoxhaEndri in #835
check for space at the end of a line by @HoxhaEndri in #845
Update installer, dep-check by @m-1-k-3 in #846
strict mode grep error by @HoxhaEndri in #848
Packetstorm database update by @github-actions in #852
Snyk database update by @github-actions in #851
CISA known exploited database update by @github-actions in #850
Metasploit database update by @github-actions in #849
BMC firmware extractor by @m-1-k-3 in #853
braces check for all scripts inside “helpers” folder and “installer” folder by @HoxhaEndri in #854
kernel-hardening-checker fix by @m-1-k-3 in #855
Version 1.3.1 by @m-1-k-3 in #856

Full Changelog: 1.3.0-AI-for-EMBA…1.3.1-diff-all-the-firmwares

Varshini

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