Comprehensive firmware integrity verification, SPI flash forensics, supply chain risk assessment, and low-level platform security analysis for enterprise and embedded systems.
A systematic examination of platform firmware to identify vulnerabilities, persistence mechanisms, integrity violations, and supply chain risks that traditional security controls cannot detect.
Cryptographic hash verification against known good baselines; detection of unauthorized modifications, backdoors, and implanted modules.
Review of Secure Boot settings, UEFI variables, boot order, DMA protection, and administrative password policies.
Assessment of firmware provenance, vendor signing practices, update mechanisms, and hardware root-of-trust implementations.
DXE and TSL phases represent primary firmware attack surface
Our proprietary framework combines static analysis, dynamic testing, and forensic examination.
Extract current firmware image via SPI flash programmer or in‑system tools. Document vendor, version, build date, and UEFI capabilities. Establish integrity baseline using cryptographic hashes (SHA‑256, SHA‑3).
Parse firmware structure using UEFITool, CHIPSEC, and binwalk. Identify PEI/DXE/SMM modules. Detect anomalies: unknown modules, code caves, modified sections, unexpected strings.
Physical SPI flash read via dedicated programmer (e.g., Dediprog, Flashcat). Compare against vendor baseline. Identify HPA/DCO regions, malicious implants, and configuration drift.
Execute controlled boot sequence monitoring. Verify Secure Boot enforcement, measure PCR values, detect WPBT abuse, validate runtime services integrity.
Prioritize findings based on CVSS scoring, exploitability, and business impact. Deliver actionable remediation roadmap including vendor patching, configuration hardening, and supply chain recommendations.
Malicious implants typically reside in BIOS Region (0x00100000+)
Industry‑standard and proprietary tools used during assessment.
Platform security assessment framework by Intel. SPI flash analysis, UEFI variable inspection.
Firmware image parsing, module extraction, section‑level analysis.
Entropy analysis, file carving, embedded payload detection.
Reverse engineering of DxE drivers, PEI modules, UEFI binaries.
Hardware SPI flash reader for physical extraction.
Python automation for hash validation, module fingerprinting.
Dedicated firmware security practice – not general pentesting. Our analysts reverse engineer UEFI implants daily.
In‑house SPI programmers, logic analyzers, and rework station for physical firmware extraction and analysis.
Executive summary + technical annex with step‑by‑step reproduction, code snippets, and prioritized fixes.
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