Reverse Engineering a CRC Packet - reverse-engineering

I'm new to reversing.
I need to analyse a packet which i think is checked by CRC.
The packet is the following:
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
From what I figured out until now, The first part of this hex-string which contains the frame information and ethernet information is: 1B1B1B1B0101010176058C0D1
After that, it's all data that have been CRC'd.
is there any way I can reverse the CRC and read the Data????? How can i know what base is it?(16/32/64)
(I have more packets like this one)
Thanks for the answers..!

A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is a one way hash of input data. As it is a hash, and not an encryption nor encoding, there is no means to determine the original data, as there will be multiple valid inputs that give the same result.

CRC's are used by appending them to the data. The original data is still there unaltered, so you can already "read the Data".
As for determining what CRC is used, you can use RevEng, but you will need to try guesses with different CRC locations and sizes, and you will need to use several examples of data.

Related

Looking for an example of a OBD-II complete data frame

I'm developing an OBD-II reader where I want to query requests to read PID parameters with a stm32 processor. I already understand what should go on the data field, but the ID is giving me a headache. As I have read, one must send 0x7DF to broadcast a request, and each ECU will respond with his own ID. However, I have been asked to do this within the SAE J1939 protocol, which uses the 29 bit extended identifier, and I don't know what I need to add to this ID.
As I stated in the title, could someone show me some actual data from a bus using this method? I've been searching on the internet for real frames but did not have any luck so far.
I woud also appreciate if someone could shred some light to if the OBD-II communication needs some acknowledgment to work properly.
Thanks
I would suggest you to take a look on the SAE J1939 documentation, in the more specifically on the J1939/21,J1939-71 and J1939/73.
Generally, a J1939 transport protocol response sequence can be processed as follows:
Identify the BAM frame, indicating a new sequence being initiated
(via the PGN 60416 - 0xEC00 can be reach by 0x1CECFF00 )
Extract the J1939 PGN from bytes 6-8 of the BAM payload to use as the
identifier of the new frame
Construct the new data payload by concatenating bytes 2-8 of the data
transfer frames (i.e. excl. the 1st byte)
A J1939 data transfer messages with ID 1CEBFF00 (PGN 60160 or EB00).
Above, the last 3 bytes of the BAM equal E3FE00. When reordered, these equal the PGN FEE3 aka Engine Configuration 1 (EC1). Further, the payload is found by combining the the first 39 bytes across the 6 data transfer packets/fram
The administrative control device or any device issuing the vehicle use status PID should be sensitive to the run switch status (SPN 3046 - 0xFDC0 which probably can be reach by 0xCFDC000) and any other locally defined criteria for authorized use (i.e., driver log-ons) before the vehicle use status PID is used to generate an unauthorized use alarm.
Also, you can't forget to uses a read/send to extend ID message, since that is a 24-bit.
In fact, i will suggest you to use can-utils to make your a analyses even easier. A simple can-dump or can-sniffer you can see what is coming on your broadcast.
Some car's dbc https://github.com/commaai/opendbc

Use 'forceget' error when calling GET :urn/​metadata/​:guid/​properties

I am trying to retrieve the properties using this method: GET :urn/​metadata/​:guid/​properties
This is something that we have running and works daily in our workflows, but I think this is an especailly large model.
For this particular model we are getting the following repsonse:
413 Request Entity Too Large
{Diagnostic": "Please use the 'forceget' parameter to force querying the data."}
Can anyone advise me as to how I do apply the forceget parameter to this call as I can't see any mention of it in the api docs.
forceget (string): To force get the large resource even if it exceeded the expected maximum length. Possible values: true, false. The implicit value is false.
The maximum data size 'without' forceget=true, is 2097152 bytes gzip compressed.
If you add 'forceget' then there is no size limit, however, if the generation of the gzip file takes longer than 2 hours, it will time out and try again later and eventually give up and report an error.
More details in this blog post: https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/faster-get-hierarchy-api-and-how-solve-error-413
#augusto-goncalves. Do you know what is the max number of parameters that are possible to get through a request with 'forceget' param?
... and what is the maximum number of properties we might have in the model so that we can retrieve all properties from that endpoint WITHOUT using 'forceget' parameter?

Config File Checksum guessing (CRC)

I'm currently "hacking" an old 3d Printer, built in 1996. There is Software running on an old Windows PC. I need to modify some parameters which are not accessible from the front end, so I wanted to modify the config files. But if I modify something, it could not be read anymore. I noticed, that there is a checksum at the end of the file, and I'm not really an checksum expert. I assume that, while loading the file, this checksum is calculated again and compared to the one at the end.
I'm having trouble finding out which checksum algorithm is used.
What I already found out: I think it's not just an addition of the bits in the file. When I'm switching two characters, an checksum, that is generated with addition, would not change. But the software won't take that file.
I'm guessing its some kind of CRC16, because a checksum looks like that:
0x4f20
As I have calculated that number with several usual CRC16 parameters and could not find a match with the "4f20", I assume that it must be an custom CRC16..
Here is a complete sample file:
PACKET noname
style 502
last_modified 1511855084 # Tue Nov 28 08:44:44 2017
STRUCTURE MACHINE_OVRL
PARAM distance_units
Value = "millimeters"
ENDPARAM
PARAM language
Value = "English"
ENDPARAM
ENDSTRUCTURE
ENDPACKET
checksum 0x4f20
I think either the checksum itself or the complete line "checksum 0x4f20" is not being considered while calculated, because thats not possible (?)
Any help is appreciated.
Edit: I got some more files with checksums of course, but these are a lot longer than this file. If needed, I could provide them too..
RevEng was written for this purpose. Given several examples of the input and the associated CRCs, RevEng will derive the CRC parameters. If it is a CRC.

What data format is this?

I was checking one share trading site's AJAX response and below is what it showed up in Firebug Response tab of XHR section. Can anyone explain me what format is this and how is it parsed ?
<ST=tat>
<SI=0>
<TB=txtSearch>
<560v=Tata Motors Ltdv=TATMOT>
<566v=Tata Steel Ltdv=TATSTE>
<3199v=Ashram Online.com Ltdv=ASHONL>
<4866v=Kreon Finnancial Services Ltdv=KREFIN>
<552v=Tata Chemicals Ltdv=TATCHE>
<554v=Tata Power Company Ltdv=TATPOW>
<2986v=Tata Metaliks Ltdv=TATMET>
<300v=Tata Sponge Iron Ltdv=TATSPO>
<121v=Tata Coffee Ltdv=TATCOF>
<2295v=Tata Communications Ltdv=TATCOM>
<0v=Time In Milli-Secondsv=0>
I think what we are dealing with here is some proprietary format, likely an Eldricht SGML Horror of some sort.
Banking in general has all sorts of Eldricht horrors running about.
On a related note, this is very much not XML.
Edit:
A quick analysis* indicates that this is a format consisting of a series of statements bracketed by <>; with the parts of the statements separated by = or v=. = seems to indicate a parameter to a control statement, indicated by a two-letter code. (<ST=tat>), while v= seems to indicate an assignment or coupling of some kind (short for "value"?), or perhaps just a field separator.
<ST appears to be short for "search term"; <TB appears to be short for "(source) table". The meaning of <SI eludes me. It is possible that <TB terminates the metadata section, but it's equally possible that the metadata section has a fixed number of terms.
As nothing refers to the number of fields in each statement in the data section, and they are all of the same length (3 fields), it is likely that the number of fields is fixed, but it might derive from the value of <TB, or even <SI, in some way.
What is abundantly clear, however, is that this data is not intended for consumption by other applications than the one that supplies it.
*Caveat: Without a much larger sample it's impossible to tell if this analysis is valid.
It is not a commonly used "web format".
It is probably a proprietary format used by that site and will be parsed by their custom JavaScript.

When could a CSV records *not* have the same number of fields?

I am storing a series of events to a CSV file, each event type comes with a different set of data.
To illustrate, say I have two events (there will be many more):
Running, which has a data set containing speed and incline.
Sleeping, which has a data set containing snores.
There are two options to store this data in CSV records:
Option A
Storing each possible item of data in it's own field...
speed, incline, snores
therefore...
15mph, 20%, ,
, , 12
16mph, 20%, ,
14mph, 20%, ,
Option B
Storing each event in its own record...
event, value1...
therefore...
running, 15mph, 20%
sleeping, 12
running, 16mph, 20%
running, 14mph, 20%
Without a specific CSV specification, the consensus seems to be:
Each record "should" contain the same number of comma-separated fields.
Context
There are a number of events which each have a large & different set of data values.
CSV data is to be of use to other developers (I will/could/should/won't use either structure).
The 'other developers' to be toward the novice end of the spectrum and/or using resource limited systems. CSV is accessible.
The CSV format is being provided non-exclusively as feature not requirement. Although, if said application is providing a CSV file it should be provided in the correct manner from now on.
Question
Would it be valid – in this case - to go with Option B?
Thoughts
Option B maintains a level of human readability, which is an advantage say CSV is read by human not processor. Neither method is more complex to parse using a custom parser, but will Option B void the usefulness of a CSV format with other libraries, frameworks, applications et al. With Option A future changes/versions to the data set of an individual event may break the CSV structure (zombie , , to maintain forwards compatibility); whereas Option B will fail gracefully.
edit
This may be aimed at students and frameworks like OpenFrameworks, Plask, Proccessing et al. where CSV is easier to implement.
Any "other frameworks, libraries and applications" I've ever used all handle CSV parsing differently, so trying to conform to one or many of these standards might over-complicate your end result. My recommendation would be to keep it simple and use what works for your specific task. If human readbility is a requirement, then CSV in the form of Option B would work fine. Otherwise, you may want to consider JSON or XML.
As you say there is no "CSV Standard" with regard to contents. The real answer depend on what you are doing and why. You mention "other frameworks, libraries and applications". The one thing I've learnt is "Dont over engineer". i.e. Don't write reams of code today on the assumption that you will plug it into some other framework tomorrow.
I'd say option B is fine, unless you have specific requirements to use other apps etc.
< edit >
Having re-read your context, I'd probably pick one output format and use it, and forget about having multiple formats:
Having multiple output formats is a source of inconsistency (e.g. bug in one format but not another).
Having multiple formats means more code that needs to be
tested
documented
supported
< /edit >
Is there any reason you can't use XML? Yes, it's slightly more difficult to parse, at least for novices, but if so they probably need the practice. File size would be much greater, of course, but it's compressible.