• DocumentCode
    3764365
  • Title

    Radio frequency based reverse engineering of microcontroller program execution

  • Author

    Barron D. Stone;Samuel J. Stone

  • Author_Institution
    Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433 USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    159
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    This paper investigates a methodology for reverse engineering the sequence of operations executed by a microcontroller unit (MCU). Unintentional radio-frequency (RF) emissions are collected from a device and compared with a library of reference signals using a matched filter to identify operations. The reconstructed program sequence can be used to detect rogue device operation.
  • Keywords
    "Radio frequency","Clocks","Registers","Training","Estimation","Probes","Signal to noise ratio"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), 2015 National
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2379-2027
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443060
  • Filename
    7443060