Tractor Hacking - Future Reverse Engineering Work JTAG attack on the ECU

Future Reverse Engineering Work

JTAG attack on the ECU

Upon investigation of the ECU board it was noted that there may be JTAG or similar debug pins exposed that have been previously accessed, likely during the remanufacturing process. These are pictured below:

Injecting debug commands into the CAN network

The J1939 spec specifies a number of debugging commands that can be injected into the CAN network to receive back certain information. It is likely that this is possible using no more specialized equipment than our SparkFun RedBoard and CAN-BUS shield. However this avenue has not yet been investigated.
Intercepting and filtering CAN packets

If it is determined that certain packets are being used to filter system messages the lack of integrity checks or encryption (similar to unencrypted UDP) on the CAN network would allow a physical device to be placed in between a control unit, like the ECU and the rest of the network to intercept and filter packets that cause the vendor lockdown.