After an in-depth analysis of the NPU OS and its interaction with the Android kernel, this second part gives a more offensive outlook on this component. We will go through the main attack vectors to target it and detail two vulnerabilities that can be chained together to get code execution in the NPU from the NPU driver before pivoting back into the kernel.

This series of blog posts aims to describe and explain the internals of a recent addition to Samsung's system-on-chips, namely their Neural Processing Unit. The first part digs into the internals of the NPU and the second one focuses on the exploitation of some vulnerabilities we found in the implementation. If you're interested in reversing a minimal OS, want to understand how Android interacts with peripherals and do exploitation like it's the early 2000's, this series might be for you.