Car Hacking: The ultimate guide! - Part III by Anastasis Vasileiadis

In the previous two parts (PART I and PART II) we saw how to install the car simulation on our machine and the necessary programs that we should use along with the necessary equipment that we will need. In today's article we will present the exploitation process in detail.

We will now look at what SavvyCAN is and use it with ICSIM. After that, we will look at how to perform fuzzing and scripting with SavvyCAN.

SavvyCAN

There are various softwares that will help you to monitor and filter the CAN communication.

There are expensive and proprietary tools as well as free open source tools.

The purpose of this article is to help you get started with car hacking at no cost. So expensive tools are not on our list.

I have already written in detail about the cheap and free alternative to these expensive CAN communication tools. Tools like can-utils, Wireshark work just fine.

But SavvyCAN provides much more. For beginners, it offers a nice GUI, which helps you easily navigate, filter packages, IDs, etc. For those who are already into car hacking, SavvyCAN offers truly great features. My personal favorite features include the ability to run scripts in CAN framework,

Let's look at the definition of SavvyCAN from their website.

"SavvyCAN is a C ++ program based on multiple QT platforms. It is....

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