autel extractor
by _anthok
Unpack firmware update packages for the Autel EVO.
An example of an unpacked firmware [EVO_FW_V1.4.9] can be found in the extracted_sample folder at the root of this repository.
Usage
python autel_extractor.py -f <firmware> -o <output_dir>
**Note:** The firmware package is nested, but the tool does not currently unpack the nested levels for you. You will need to rerun the tool and change the `-f` flag to point to your newly unpacked image.
You can tell if a file can be further unpacked by looking for <filetransfer> at the start of the file.
How it works
Below is the format for the EVO firmware update package.
An update package is segmented by using an XML like structure, but there is no ending tag. The " characters are not a typo, those are part of the structure. The highest level tag is a filetransfer and signifies the begging of a file entry. Next, a fileinfo will follow, this will include an 8 byte header, 0-4 are the field_size, 4-8 are currently unknown, 8-field_size will be the filename. The last component of the transfer is filecontent. Once again this will include an 8 byte header, 0-4 are the field_size, 4-8 are currently unknown. The remaining bytes, 8-field_size are the actual content of the file being transfered.
"<filetransfer>"
"<fileinfo>"
field_size: bytes 0-4, big endian
unknown: bytes 4-8, ??, crc/timestamp maybe
data: bytes 8-X, data
"<filecontent>"
field_size: bytes 0-4, big endian
unknown: bytes 4-8, ??, crc/timestamp maybe
data: bytes 8-X, data