ControlThings Serial

A highly flexible serial interface tool made for penetration testers.

Installation:

As long as you have git and Python 3.6 or later installed, all you should need to do is:

pip3 install ctserial

Usage:

First, start the tool from a terminal. Then connect to your serial device and interact with it. For example:

ctserial> connect /dev/your-serial-device
ctserial> send hex deadc0de        (sends actual hex, so 4 bytes)
ctserial> send Dead Code 国        (sends full utf-8 string without spaces)
ctserial> send "Dead Code 国"      (Use quotes if you need spaces)
ctserial> exit

NOTE: The v0.4.0 temporarily removed non-hex character cleaning from send hex hexstring, so you can not currently use spaces in the hex string. This will be restored in the near future, but I had to push out v0.4.0 a bit fast to replace a broken v0.3.2 which got out of sync with the ctui library it depended on.

Platform Independence

Python 3.6+ and all dependencies are available for all major operating systems. It is primarily developed on MacOS and Linux, but should work in Windows as well.

Development

If you are interested in modifying ctserial:

1. Install Python's Poetry package at https://python-poetry.org/.
2. Clone the ctserial github repository.
3. Open a termainal to the cloned repository.
4. Run poetry install to create a new virtual environment and install an editable instance of ctserial with its dependencies.

Author

• Justin Searle justin@controlthings.io