Battling Snapdragon and Kirin: Data Extraction from Chinese Android Phones


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Both Qualcomm Snapdragon and Huawei Hisilicon Kirin are among the top SoC vendors in the Chinese Android smartphone arena. As such, it is crucial to evaluate the security aspect on full disk encryption on user data. This session will explore how to extract unencrypted user data from Qualcomm Snapdragon and Huawei Kirin Android smartphone through different attacking surfaces and vectors.

Learning Objectives:
1: Understand the boot processes in Qualcomm Snapdragon and Huawei Kirin Android smartphones.
2: Identify various attacking surface and vectors in Snapdragon and Kirin Android smartphones.
3: Learn how to extract unencrypted user data from Snapdragon and Kirin Android smartphones.

Pre-Requisites:
Assembly, C programming languages and general user usage on the Android smartphone.
Participants
James Lan

Participant

Officer-In-Charge (OC) Team, Technology Crime Forensic Branch, Singapore Police Force


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