The short-term goal of this project is to provide the necessary tools to easily analyze and modify D-Link's firmware for its DCS line of products (such as their network cameras).
A long-term goal is to be able to provide an alternative firmware with only the bare essentials to use the camera in order to fully disable all cloud aspects of the camera and to potentially make it HomeKit-compatible.
The ./scripts/download-firmware.sh script downloads the firmware for a specific product. For example, one can download the latest firmware for the DCS-936L like so:
./scripts/download-firmware.sh <model> <output directory> [firmware index]
./scripts/download-firmware.sh dcs-936l firmware 1The ./scripts/unpack-firmware.sh script decrypts, unpacks and carves date from the firmware file. It can be used like so:
./scripts/unpack-firmware.sh <path to firmware> <output directory>
./scripts/unpack-firmware.sh firmware/DCS-936L_fw_revA1_1-07-04_eu_multi_20180918.zip dumpExample (shallow) directory structure for the unpacking script:
❯ tree -L 4 -d dump/
dump/
├── carved
│ └── _update.extracted
│ ├── squashfs-root
│ └── squashfs-root-0
│ ├── empty -> /tmp
│ ├── lib -> /tmp
│ ├── lock -> /tmp
│ ├── log -> /tmp
│ ├── run -> /tmp
│ ├── shares
│ ├── tmp -> /tmp
│ └── www
└── extracted
The ./tools directory contains dockerized tools such as Binwalk. The tools can be built and used using the following script:
./tools/build.sh
docker run -it binwalkhttps://github.com/bmork/defogger
Any contribution is welcome. If you're not able to code it yourself, perhaps someone else is - so post an issue if there's anything on your mind.
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/AlexGustafsson/dlink-dcs-reversing && cd dlink-dcs-reversing