For years the SektionEins and Antid0te iOS Kernel Exploitation Trainings have been so successful that former trainees, tricks, techniques and vulnerabilities from the training have been directly involved in the making of some of the public iOS jailbreaks up to iOS 10.2. Even the public iOS 11 jailbreaks use techniques that are also taught in our trainings. Furthermore several of our former attendees can now be seen credited by Apple for security bug fixes in recent iOS and OS X releases or even joined Apple as employees. However Apple's internal development of the iOS kernel never stands still and they keep adding new security mitigations to defeat previously used attacks.
With the upcoming release of iOS 12 Apple introduces a huge number of security relevant changes to the iOS kernel, from the binary layout to the implementation of the the kernel heap, the sandbox and code signing. iOS researchers have e.g. called it the biggest modification to the iOS kernel heap in a long time. Our training will discuss all these changes in iOS 12.
This training is at the end of September 2018. It will be happening in Singapore and was redesigned by our Singaporean partner company Antid0te SG Pte. Ltd. to contain new material that builds on top of more public vulnerabilities that were made public in recent years and the correspondign public exploit source code. It is a full 5-day course and is targeted at exploit developers that want to switch over to iOS and could not come to our training course in Germany.
The goal of this training is to enable you to exploit new vulnerabilities in the iOS kernel that you discover on your own.
Topics
The following list of topics shows what is usually covered by the course.
Introduction
How to set up your Mac and Device for Vuln Research/Exploit Development
How to load own kernel modules into the iOS kernel
How to write Code for your iDevice
Damn Vulnerable iOS Kernel Extension
Low Level ARM / ARM64
Differences between ARM and ARM64
Exception Handling
Hardware Page Tables
Special Registers used by iOS
PAN and Pointer Authentication
...
iOS Kernel Source Code
Structure of the Kernel Source Code
Where to look for Vulnerabilities
Implementation of Mitigations
MAC Policy Hooks, Sandbox, Entitlements, Code Signing
...
iOS Kernel Reversing
Structure of the Kernel Binary
Finding Important Structures
Porting Symbols
Closed Source Kernel Parts and How to analyze them
...
iOS Kernel Debugging
Panic Dumps
Using the KDP Kernel Debugger (hands on tasks limited to 30 pin devices)
Extending the Kernel Debugger (KDP++)
Debugging with own Patches
Kernel Heap Debugging/Visualization (new software package)
iOS Kernel Heap
In-Depth Explanation of How the Kernel Heap works (including all the changes in iOS 12)
Different techniques to control the kernel heap layout (including non-public ones)
Discuss weaknesses in current heap implementation
iOS Kernel Exploit Mitigations
Discussion of all the iOS Kernel Exploit Mitigations introduced
Discussion of various weaknesses in these protections
iOS Kernel Vulnerabilities and their Exploitation
Full walkthrough through exploitation of multiple prior known iOS memory corruption vulnerabilities
Analysis of public exploits and discussion how to improve them
Overview over different vulnerability types commonly found in iOS kernel and exploit strategies
Part of the training will be to reimplement bits and pieces of an iOS 11 kernel exploit
iOS Kernel Jailbreaking
Discussion of kernel patch protection KTRR / KPP
Discussion of how recent iOS jailbreaks deal with kernel patch protection
Handling of New Devices
Discussion of necessary steps to port exploits from old to new devices
Training Takeaways
The whole training material (multiple hundred slides) will be handed to the students in digital form.
Trainees will get a license for our software and scripts that are used during
the training that allows usage but not redistribution of said software.
Training Requirements
Student Requirements
This course will not give an introduction to ARM basics. The trainee is
required to understand basic ARM assembly. It is not required to have
previous experience with ARM64 cpus, because their differences are
discussed within the training. There is a short refresher inside the
training. Low level ARM CPU knowledge will be helpful,
but is not required for this course - part of it will be explained within
the course.
This course will not give basic introduction to exploitation or ROP.
Trainees are required to know concepts like ROP or buffer overflows,
integer overflows, etc...
This is a new version of the training that incorporates more public
examples of vulnerabilites and exploits - export restrictions do not
apply for this special version of the training
Hardware Requirements
An Apple Mac Notebook is required in order to run OS X Yosemite and XCode.
Training hands-on exercises will be performed on devices provided by Antid0te.
It is not required for students to bring their own iOS devices.
Every student will be handed an iPod Touch 16GB at the beginning
of the training that they will work on - these devices remain the property of Antid0te SG Pte. Ltd.
Students can optionally bring their own iOS device for experiments.
But for best results these devices should run an iOS version which has a public
jailbreak for it.
Software Requirements
Legal IDA Pro 6.x license (ARM64 support required)
alternatively Hopper/Binary Ninja can be used but script support varies by tool
Hexrays for ARM helpful, but not required
BinDiff for IDA helpful, but not required
Mac OS X 10.13, with latest XCode and iOS 11.x SDK (or newer)
Additional Software will be made available during the training
Venue
The training will be held at Novotel Clarke Quay (Singapore). The Novotel is located near Clarke Quay MRT (purple line) and near Fort Canning (downtown line) in Singapore.
Address:
Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay
177A River Valley Rd
Singapore 179031
No special deal has been made with the hotel concerning rooms for the attendees. Attendees are free to choose whatever hotel is nearby.
Pricing
We offer the following rates for this training. The prices are in Singapore Dollars and include 7% GST.
Price
Regular (before 7th January)
S$ 6420
Registration closes 7th January
The training ticket price include daily lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks.
Register
If you have further questions about this training please contact us by e-mail training@antid0te-sg.com. If you want to sign up for this training please do this via COSEINC, here. Please notice that signup and billing of the training is performed by COSEINC. Execution of the training however is done by Antid0te SG Pte. Ltd.
In-House Training / Conferences / Additional Trainings
If you are interested in this training, but want us to perform the training for your people at your office, want to feature our training at your conference or would just like to know if we provide the training again at a later time please contact us by e-mail training@antid0te-sg.com.
