Building an advanced keylogger using Python. The script will log key strokes as well as other system-wide information.
I recommend using a spare Gmail account for testing the script.
- Since Google no longer supports the use of third-party apps or devices, the 'less secure app access' setting is not available anymore.
- You need to generate an 'App Password' for logging into your account and send email using Python
refer: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en
- Every key-strokes log file is inserted with user & system information at the beginning using os, socket, platform modules.
- on_press() is a callback to call when a button is pressed. It appends the key to the logged data.
- on_release() is a callback to call when a button is released. I have used 'ESC' to terminate the script.
- send_email() is used to send email using SMTP Protocol over Gmail SMTP server (port no. 587)
- random_file_path() will help generate the files at random locations. I have used /Downloads/, /Documents/, and /Music/ file paths.
- I am using random to generate random file names with numbers ranging 1000000000 to 9999999999.
- clipboard() will fetch data from clipboard using win32clipboard module.
- screenshot() captures a screenshot of the screen at the time of sending the log. Module used - ImageGrab
- log_file() will create a .txt file consisting of the key-strokes.
- After every specified time interval, send_logs() will generate the log files and send them via email using the defined functions. Further, it will permanently delete those files from the system.
- Python 3.10.5 - https://www.python.org/
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