Keylogger
In this section, we will build a simple keylogger. A keylogger is a malware program that records the keystrokes of the user. It is one of the most common kinds of malware programs. Keyloggers are often used to steal passwords and other sensitive information, such as credit cards. Keyloggers are often made to be as silent as possible, which means that it is very hard to detect keyloggers. Let's try building a simple keylogger. You will need to install a module called pynput
to build a keylogger. This module allows you to access keystrokes programmatically:
- To install this module, use the following command:
pip install pynput
This will install the module:
- Once the module is installed, we can import
keyboard
from this module:from pynput import keyboard
- Next, we will define a listener for listening to keystrokes. This listener will handle different cases on different events. Take a look at the following code:
with keyboard.Listener(on_press=onPress, on_release...