PENNE - P.A.S.T.A Emulator with No Need for hardware E.C.U.s

The idea of this project was influenced the Toyota PASTA Framework. The goal was to create a virtual instance of the testbed with possibilities to gradually improve the security of the system from a bare metal basis.

By providing a fully virtualized testbed, the financial burden for the purchase of a physical testbed is removed.

Getting Started

The following steps were tested on a fresh install of Debian12

First install git

sudo apt install git

Clone the Repository

git clone git@github.com:AstroTV/PENNE.git

Run the script to download the needed packages and execute the PENNE Testing Framework

cd PENNE
./run.sh

The script builds the C project for the ECUs and tries to install the following packets with apt:

• cmake
• python3
• python3-virtualenv
• python3-pip
• python3-tk
• libssl-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• build-essential
• libsdl2-dev
• socat
• at-spi2-core

Then a virtual environment is created and the required Python packages are installed. After that, the virtual CAN interface is set up and the Python GUI is started.

The GUI itself starts the compiled binary for the 3 ECUs. The code for the ecu binary is located in penne_ecu/.

Flowchart

Below, the flowchart of the project is provided:

Contributions

Special thanks to Richard Heinz for the implementation of the Sniffing & Replay Attack and to Florian Kuppelwieser for the demonstrations on the Bluetooth controlled model vehicle.