SATCOM Terminals: Hacking by Air, Sea, and Land
summary
Static firmware reverse engineering targets more than 20 widely deployed SATCOM terminals and finds 100% of devices could be abused through hardcoded credentials, backdoors, undocumented or insecure protocols and weak crypto. Analysis demonstrates a remote SMS exploit that triggers firmware update and a firmware upload via SLP/SNMP path allowing unauthenticated remote firmware replacement, plus live demos of hijacked distress/SSAS messages and cross‑domain pivoting from inflight Wi‑Fi to core satcom.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to satcom
- 2:20Methodology and aircraft
- 6:33Aviator terminal security
- 12:55SBU to SDU pivoting
- 16:46SDU backdoor analysis
- 20:21Silor product protocol
- 23:44Maritime distress demo
- 28:56Remote command attacks
- 33:38Hughes terminal analysis
- 40:34Enhanced security testing
- 44:43Vendor responses and closure
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