STDin 1.01alpha - DC18 Badge Virus

Prototype of STDin, a virus for the DC18 Badge.
STDin was Team Redacted's entry in the badge hacking contest at Defcon 18. It got 2nd place.

1.01alpha
1st major milestone - WE HAVE REPLICATION! (with a lot of pushing)

The green things are demo-boards with the same processor (MC56F8006) that the DC18 badge has.

The left-hand ("top") board starts up with its lights blinking in the following pattern:
a) lights count in binary,
b) lots of inward moving lights things (sparkly pattern),
c) lights move left, then right, then left, then... etc.

The board on the right-hand side ("bottom", or "the fast-blinking one") has a different pattern, as it has different code.

When the button is pushed on the left-hand ("infector") board, the pattern changes, and the right-hand board's lights stop.
Then the left-hand lightsfreezes too (which was not intentional.)
After a bunch of button pushing and waiting, the right-hand one goes into the same sequence that the left-hand one did:
a) lights count in binary,
b) lots of inward moving lights things (sparkly pattern)
c) lights move from left to right to left to right to...

The virus has copied from the left-hand to the right-hand board without the usual requiremetn of a USB-TAP or other special purpose JTAG device directly installing the firmware.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• STDin
• DC18
• badge
• hack
• virus
• propagation
• LCD
• JTAG
• redacted
• Defcon
• microcontroller
• Freescale
• MC56F8006
• social
• networking
• LFSR
• prototype