Awesome CAN Bus

🚜 Awesome Tools, Hardware And Resources For CAN Bus

This curated list helps a reverse engineering CAN bus devices with lightly specializing in automotive embedded controller software and communication understanding.

Note Items marked as "🔝" are highly recommended.

Permanent URL to this list: https://github.com/iDoka/awesome-canbus

Contents

• Hacking and Reverse Engineering tools
• Test equipment and simulators
• Protocols
  • OBD-II tools
  • UDS
  • ISO-TP
  • J1939 Tools
  • J2534 Tools
• Utils
  • Common
  • Linux related
  • GUI Tools
  • TUI Tools
  • Python Tools
  • CAN-over-IP
  • Other Utils
  • Libraries
  • Examples
• CAN Database
  • Formats (DBC, KCD)
  • Converters and Parsers
  • DBC only
• Hardware
  • ARM
  • Arduino
  • Espressif Systems (ESP8266, ESP32)
  • SBC
  • IP cores for ASIC and FPGA
  • Others HW
  • Hardware related tools

Hacking and Reverse Engineering tools

• 🔝CarHackingTools - Collection of Common Car Hacking Tools a scripts collection to help jump start car research and hacking.
• 🔝Caring Caribou - A friendly car security exploration tool for the CAN bus.
• 🔝CAN_Reverse_Engineering - Automated Payload Reverse Engineering Pipeline for the Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol.
• 🔝carhacking - Car hacking scripts and docs collection.
• ReCAN - Reverse engineering of Controller Area Networks.
• parse_can_logs - Parse CAN logs and visualize data streams on plot.
• reversegear - Offline Reverse Engineering Tools for Automotive Networks.
• 🔝CANalyzat0r - Security analysis toolkit for proprietary car protocols.
• 🔝CANToolz - Black-box CAN network analysis framework.

• GVRET - Generalized Electric Vehicle Reverse Engineering Tool (Arduino FW).

• UDSim - Unified Diagnostic Services Simulator and Fuzzer (successor of uds-server).
• uds-server - CAN UDS Simulator and Fuzzer.
• CANalyse - A vehicle network analysis and attack tool.
• canhack - A low-level CAN protocol hacking library.
• canDrive - Tools for hacking your car.
• Carpunk - CAN injection toolkit and successor of CANghost.
• CANghost - Automated Script For Hacking Into CAN Bus.
• canTot - Quick and dirty canbus h4xing framework.
• CANanalyze - This framework can be used to interact with automotive protocols like CAN/ISOTP/UDS.
• Scapy - Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library. Supports CAN/ISOTP/UDS/GMLAN plus many other protocols.
• CAN-RE-Tool - Reverse engineering tool for systems based on CAN bus communications.
• 🔝can-explorer - A CAN bus visualization tool to aid in reverse engineering.

Test equipment and simulators

• canerrsim - CAN bus error frame simulator and monitor for testing error conditions using SocketCAN.
• ECU-simulator - Tool that simulates some vehicle diagnostic services. It can be used to test OBD-II dongles or tester tools that support the UDS (ISO 14229) and ISO-TP (ISO 15765-2) protocols.
• ELM327-emulator - ELM327 Emulator for testing software interfacing OBDII via ELM327 adapter supporting multi-ECU simulation.

Protocols

OBD-II tools