Reverse Engineering Toshiba Flashair Wifi SD card

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After all the interesting things I have been reading lately about wifi sd cards, and my never ending interest in tiny embedded devices/hacking things that were made for one purpose and using them for some other purpose.. I figured I should pick one up and see what was going on. So I perused one of my favorite auction sites, and found some flashair Toshiba Flashair wifi sd cards going for around $20, so I tossed a few bids out, and ended up winning one for under $22 shipped. Later to find out in my further investigation that I had jumped the gun, and that the Flashair cards do not run Linux, but instead a proprietary OS.. unlike the Transcend, Flucard, and PQI Air. That however did not deter me from looking, who knows what still could be done..

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After receiving the card I took a look at the website and saw a firmware update utility (FAFWUpdateTool_v10004) and from my previous research this was possibly the key to figuring out more to this device. So I installed it and read through the documentation provided on the site.

Before actually running the utility however I figured I would look at the card as it opens on my Windows 8.1 laptop.
The first thing that I noticed was that it was formatted in FAT32 and it looked like your regular sd card, with one exception.. some hidden folders.
Particularly the hidden one named "SD WLAN", which once opened had one file that really intrigued me, the "CONFIG" file. After opening it up I noticed there were many options and after Googling, many more Official Here andMore Here. So I went about editing it to see what would happen. I wanted it to connect as a client on my network, so I didn't have to connect to it, as the default setting is access point, so I changed APPMODE to 5, changed APPSSID to match mine, and changed APPNETWORKKEY to also match. Next, I found that the unofficial sources stated that there was also a COMMAND function, so I figured "help" might be a good start. I then left everything else alone, then saved and safely removed and reinserted.
My config file looked like the following:
CIPATH=/DCIM/100__TSB/FA000001.JPG APPMODE=5 APPSSID=MYNETWORKSSID APPNETWORKKEY=NETWORKKEY VERSION=F24A6W3AW1.00.04 CID=02544d53573038470750031fac00cc01 PRODUCT=FlashAir VENDOR=TOSHIBA COMMAND=help
*note that network key will automatically be *'d out on reboot of card.
After rebooting the card I noticed it showed up on my network, at this point I accessed its web page and was greeted
with the webpage, which was useless.. I wanted to know where the command output was being written to, after digging through the files, I went back to Google, which led me back to the unofficial link above for extrud3d.com (thanks for your help guys).

Anyways, after navigating to /IPADDRESSOFFLASHAIR/eva.cgi, I was presented with a list of the commands:
> help help show help version show version mod Modify Memory dump Dump Memory stat show status ip Address Setting ping ping reboot reboot system macsend MAC frame send setup TELEC command send TELEC command stop TELEC command show TELEC command deauth deauth command print console output srom SPI ROM access sleep sleep setting fat file system wlan Wireless LAN control dhcpd DHCP server dhcpc DHCP client nbios NetBios service wps Wi-Fi Protected Setup sd SD Card Access http HTTP Client httpd HTTP Daemon rfic set RF-IC serial data rfic iperf Measuring performance sysclk change System clk ps ps [on/off] pw pw pio pio netlog log d
followed by what looked like a startup log. Now I was getting somewhere..
So I tried a number of the commands, but I had little luck here and there as they appeared to be very limited as I could not see what the arguments/flags were as appending "-h" or "?" almost never returned anything. It is also a pain because you have to edit the CONFIG file, save, safely remove, pull out, put back in, wait for it to reconnect to the network, then refresh the page each time you want to run a command.

From the interesting ones above, what I could get to run and ascertain:
help command showed the above commands.
version command printed version information.
mod command appeared to be a write function. (I believe this and dump is to some flash storage because it returned all 0's)
dump command returned what appeared to be memory addresses and lengths followed by raw binary output.
stat command returned wlan stats, like signal strength, rx and tx packets etc.
ip command appeared it was to setup ipaddress settings.
ping command pinged address in argument.
fat can do mkdir, cp commands etc, so it is access to the sd card flash system.
all the other ones for the most part required arguments and/or flags that I did not know or returned nothing..

Next thing to do was update the firmware and see what would happen, just as I had researched it added a file which gets deleted on...

Usage Commands Found!

Chris Jones • 05/01/2015 at 21:24 • 1 comment

After digging through the data and extracting what I can from the firmware update file I found the following usage data.. It still needs to be cleaned up, but it does help to identify data on the device.

Usage commands found in no particular order.. (needs to be cleaned up

usage: fat mkfs drive#
fat cat  [file]
  file : display file
fat mkfs [drive]
  drive : drive  no.(0 or 1)
       0: User, 1: System(Hidden)

fat mkdir [dir]
  dir : create directory name

fat write [file] [size]
  file : write check file
  size : write size(1-65535)

fat read  [file]
  file : read check file

fat mv  [org] [new]
  org  : original file
  new  : new file
  
fat rm  [remove]
  remove : remove file
  
fat cp  [org] [new]
  org  : source file
  new  : destination file
  
fat lsr  <dir>
  dir    : directory
  
fat ls  <dir>
  dir    : directory

usage: test read <file name>

usage: test write <file name> <file size>

usage: test cp <existing file name> <new file name>

usage: test rm <file name>

usage: test mv <source file name> <target file name>

usage: test mkdir <directory name>

srom conf  -f [flow]  -d [val] -s [samp]
  flow   : 0/1 (Invalid / Valid)
  val    : 1-10,16/32/64/128/255
  samp   : 0-63

srom read [addr] -l <length>
  addr   (hex) : 0xXXXXXXXX
  length (dec) : default 4, Max 512  (round 4byte)

srom write [addr] [data] -l <length>
  addr   (hex) : 0xXXXXXXXX
  data   (hex) : 0xYYYYYYYY
  length (dec) : default 4, Max 512  (round 4byte)

Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]
            [-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]
            [-w timeout] target_name
Options:
    -t             Ping the specified host until stopped.
                   To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;
                   To stop - type Control-C.
    -a             Resolve addresses to hostnames.
    -n count       Number of echo requests to send.
    -l size        Send buffer size.
    -f             Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.
    -i TTL         Time To Live.
    -v TOS         Type Of Service.(AC_BE=0x00,AC_BK=0x20,AC_VI=0xA0,AC_VO=0xE0)
    -r count       Record route for count hops.
    -s count       Timestamp for count hops.
    -j host-list   Loose source route along host-list.
    -k host-list   Strict source route along host-list.
    -w timeout     Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.

setup dump  -m [mode] -f <fil>
  mode    : 0-3
            0 : No Dump
            1 : MAC Header Only
            2 : MAC Header and Frame Header
            3 : All
  fil     : 0-2
            0 : Show only My address
            1 : All
            2 : Broadcast Frame hidden dump
			
setup reg   -r <addr> -v <data>
  NoOption   : display register setting
  addr (hex) : 0xXXXXXXXX
  data (hex) : 0xYYYYYYYY
  
setup ch    -f <freq> -c <channel>
  Argumet freq or ch
  freq    : 2412/2417/2422/2427/2432/2437/2442/2447/2452/2457/2462/2467/2472/2484/
            5180/5200/5220/5240/5260/5280/5300/5320/5500/5520/5540/5560/5580/5600/
            5620/5640/5660/5680/5700/5475/5765/5785/5805/5825
  channel : 1`14,36/40/44/48/52/56/60/64,100/104/108/112/116/120/124/128/132/136/
            140/149/153/157/161/165

setup frame -l <macl> -u <macu> -b <body> -s <size> -t <tid> -r <rate>
            -p <power> -a <ack> -m <mcs>
  NoOption   : display frame setting
  
MAC ADDRESS XX:XX:YY:YY:YY:YY
  macl (hex) : 0xXXXX
  macu (hex) : 0xYYYYYYYY
  body       : 0xZZ   MAC Frame Data
  size       : 0-1500
  tid        : 0-65535
  rate       : 1/2/5/6/9/11/12/18/24/36/48/54(Mbps)
  power      : 0-255
  ack        : 0/1 (Normal/No ack)
  mcs        : 0-7

send pn    -r <rate> -m <mcs> -p <preamble> -g <gi>
  rate     : 1/2/5/6/9/11/12/18/24/36/48/54(Mbps)
  mcs      : 0-7
  preamble : 0/1 (Long Preamble / Short Preamble)
  gi       : 0/1 (Normal GI / Short GI)
  
send frame -n <count> -i <interval>  -s <sifs> -r <rifs> -e <enc>
  count    : 0-65535
  interval : 0-65535 (msec)
  sifs     : 0/1 (SIFS Burst Invalid / SIFS Burst Valid)
  rifs     : 0/1 (RIFS Burst Invalid / RIFS Burst Valid)
  enc      : 0 : None
             1 : WEP
             2 : AES
             3 : TKIP

send help

send frame -n <count> -i <interval>  -s <sifs> -r <rifs> -e <enc>

send pn    -r <rate> -m <mcs> -p <preamble> -g <gi>

sd buffer [-d | -s]
  -s  : Single buffer
  -d  : Dubble buffer

sd clk ???
  ???  : SD_CLK_CTRL
  
sd update [filename]
  filename  : file name


sd fread  [filename]
  filename  : file name

sd gcmd   [number] <arg>
  number   : XX (dec)
 arg...

More info
Chris Jones • 05/01/2015 at 20:47 • 0 comments

found some images of the board digging through google image search..
Chips are as follow:
Processor : TC90535XBG ?
Flash Memory : TC58NVG6D2GLAD0E ?
WIFI : AIROHA AL2238 wifi b/g
I cannot read the others, but either way I was not able to find any details about the Processor or even the Flash Memory.
Also, with the help of a friend, I ran the update file through IDA Pro, and he said it appears IDA is detecting it as Armv6 code. We were not able to find the bootloaders load start. Although it may not be in the update file as it may not be a complete firmware image.. More is still needed to be researched, but I wanted to update this.

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