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IoT Firmware Binary Emulation!!!

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Once we have extracted the firmware we have left with the binaries so to understand their functionalities and interact with them we require debuggers which will help in analyzing them for in-depth technicalities including buffer overflows etc. Required tools: Qemu Qemu - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. When used as a visualizer, QEMU achieves near native performance by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hyper-visor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, 64-bit POWER, S390, 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and MIPS guests. QEMU is a member of Software Freedom Conservancy. Step 1 - For emulation we