Launching EMUX - A framework for emulating ARM and MIPS IoT Devices

EMUX (formerly known as ARMX) has been under regular development for over 5 years. The latest release brings MIPS emulation capabilities to the framework, expanding the set of targets that can be emulated. EMUX has been actively used in my training classes, and students have found a number of 0-days using EMUX as an emulation, fuzzing, and debugging platform.

This presentation will cover the following:

• EMUX internals and architecture

• How to add new CPU architectures to EMUX (beyond ARM and MIPS)

• Challenges in emulation

• Live demo: Extracting firmware from SPI flash and emulating an entire IoT device in EMUX

MUX is publicly available as a Docker image on https://github.com/therealsaumil
EMUX Website and Documentation: https://emux.exploitlab.net/

Saumil Shah

Saumil Shah is the founder and CEO of Net-Square, providing cutting edge information security services to clients around the globe. Saumil is an internationally recognised speaker and instructor, having regularly presented at conferences like Blackhat, RSA, CanSecWest, PacSec, EUSecWest, Hack.lu, Hack-in-the-box and others. He has authored two books titled "Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense" and "The Anti-Virus Book".

Saumil graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University. He spends his leisure time breaking software, flying kites, traveling around the world and taking pictures.