System emulation and firmware re-hosting have become popular techniques to answer
various security and performance related questions, such as determining whether a …

Given the increasing ubiquity of online embedded devices, analyzing their firmware is
important to security, privacy, and safety. The tight coupling between hardware and firmware …

Closely monitoring the behavior of a software system during its execution enables
developers and analysts to observe, and ultimately understand, how it works. This kind of …

As IoT devices grow more widespread, scaling current analysis techniques to match
becomes an increasingly critical task. Part of this challenge involves not only rehosting the …

Emulating firmware for microcontrollers is challenging due to the tight coupling between the
hardware and firmware. This has greatly impeded the application of dynamic analysis tools …

Emulating firmware of microcontrollers is challenging due to the lack of peripheral models.
Existing work finds out how to respond to peripheral read operations by analyzing the target …

Embedded devices are becoming more widespread, interconnected, and web-enabled than
ever. However, recent studies showed that embedded devices are far from being secure …

The ability to execute code in an emulator is a fundamental part of modern vulnerability
testing. Unfortunately, this poses a challenge for many embedded systems, where firmware …

One approach to assess the security of embedded IoT devices is applying dynamic analysis
such as fuzz testing to their firmware in scale. To this end, existing approaches aim to …

With the rapid proliferation of IoT devices, our cyberspace is nowadays dominated by
billions of low-cost computing nodes, which are very heterogeneous to each other. Dynamic …