Create an Advanced Keylogger in Python - Crash Course

[@collinsinfosec]

Hope you can learning something here, of course there is always improvements to be made :) Timestamps below: 0:00 - Introduction 1:36 - Recommendations before starting 3:07 - Quick note by author (me lol) 4:03 - My approach to this project 6:45 - Create a new project in PyCharm 7:35 - Creating the files for the project 8:13 - Import modules or libraries 19:00 - Creating the basic keylogger (logging keys in python) 31:28 - Incorporating email functionality 43:40 - Getting computer information 52:55- Gathering the clipboard contents 57:21 - Collect audio using microphone 1:01:02 - Take screenshots 1:02:50 - Build a timer 1:10:54 - Encrypt the files 1:26:44 - Cleaning up code and adding comments 1:28:46 - Ideas for converting code to executable 1:29:58 - Conclusion

[@kiaehe6292]

your vids are really great so are your approaches to learning basic python i went down the same path and it really got me hooked tech with tim is a really great guy again so are mosh and edureka. nice content keep it up

[@ujjwalsingh9994]

Bro there is one error coming Gmail has blocked your mail for using appropriate file type

[@OpenYoureyes304]

I really appreciate your video , keep on making vids

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

Try using regex or similar to pick out specific window titles for more juicy information. You could try not even logging it on their PC and instead making requests to your own REST API.

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

Tips for people who wanna make a keylogger. Keep track of the cursor position using the arrow keys. Keep track of words/sentences being entered. Use APIs like getchar to differentiate between similar keys and check for any typing shortcuts such as deleting words as well as navigating between them, this will significantly cleanup your logs. An advantage of storing the current word/sentence as it is typed is that your log isn't littered with [BACKSPACE] or similar. You could append to the log only when a user hits enter. One more tip is to match against certain programs or window titles so we gain more useful information. Gonna have another crack at making a keylogger, the hard part is making it undetected. If anyone wants any help message me on discord - smiley#5012

[@lumibeatz2767]

Your eyes are gooing to burn if you don't use dark theme.

[@mrnano1991]

Thank you Grant to finally upload this one , I was waiting for this!!

[@KeyserTheRedBeard]

astonishing content Grant Collins. I crushed the thumbs up on your video. Maintain up the outstanding work.

[@ADARSHKUMAR-z7y6k]

oo man seriously nice videos learned a lot about the cyberscecurity field basically i just selected this topic for my software engineering in a college as a project hope it goes well thanku mann for this video

[@CristiVladZ]

Looking forward to seeing you posting more often Grant!

[@collinsinfosec]

More to come! Hope to get you on the channel :)

[@aymancassim8944]

On 19:53 instead of the "\\" we can put an "r" in front of the string like (r"C:\Users\Python")

[@airocety4391]

I really enjoyed!! Please make more tutorials

[@handhikayp]

I believe if I watched it in 2020 -- This will be the only one crash course I need to see for building a keylogger at the time :) Thank You!!!

[@teo999]

Please, help. When I start it I get NameError: name 'on release' is not defined

[@handhikayp]

@@teo999 in which minute?

[@teo999]

@@handhikayp 30:30-30:45 :c

[@handhikayp]

@@teo999 what you write in line 19, perhaps you have typo in those lines def on_release(key) : ...

[@zanata6261]

i love the fact that this is already good since antivirus already flagging it as a keylogger, i find it funny.

[@TeenDolphin-vl1wy]

Same

[@meritissimo1]

you are awesome! best regards from brazil

[@elli430t]

bro the vid is amazing

[@collinsinfosec]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@user-lo7uv1hz3y]

Hombre que tu vas para senior grande Grant 😎

[@teo999]

ya xd

[@divyankr]

It's very helpful for everyone Thank you so much Sir 👏👏👏👏👏👏😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️

[@entertainment3256]

Great brother

[@ashiqurrahman1013]

Love you brother

[@jelle5454]

Very educational! Did you got problems converting it to an exe? I used pyinstaller and the non standard preinstalled libraries (for example pynput),where not included.

[@flimsy1417]

a bit late but you have to install the modules globally for pyinstaller to include them in your .exe

[@tajammul.shaheen]

@@flimsy1417 how do you install these modules globally for your pyinstaller??

[@algcc]

@@flimsy1417 you mean --onefile?

[@AnonYmous_Icon]

Asslama.o.Alaikum Bro ! your good content is realy benefical me like pakistani students of cybersecurity .

[@dantcacenco1]

Devon Crawford called. Wants his vlogs back.

[@collinsinfosec]

Devin Crawford is the man. That's all that needs to be said.

[@dantcacenco1]

@@collinsinfosec haha!

[@dantcacenco1]

@@collinsinfosec Love your content bro! Keep up the good work!

[@mashlearns]

Great work Collins.Can you tell which codes to add for getting cookies ?

[@collinsinfosec]

Hi mash, unfortunately, I do not know how to do that.

[@mashlearns]

@@collinsinfosec Thanks man for replying.

[@SimpleHak]

Thank you grant that was very great. i was having a question when i run the code screenshot and recording are not working together how could i accomplish that together pls?

[@jaysea80able]

Create a cyber security specialist course!

[@thiagooliveiradasilva6921]

I would like too

[@quantum634]

dude...as if he's a cyber security specialist when he just wrote a simple Keylogger

[@collinsinfosec]

I am not sure what kind of course that would be!!

[@torshovgt]

Greate tutorial. 10+...

[@sulemanahmed2896]

Hey, I am having an error while running the code. Anyone, please help me. with open(file_path + extend + keys_information, "a") as f: extend package is not being installed it fails every time by saying ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement extend (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for extend

[@Faisal-ho2st]

Search the problem in stack flow i am pretty sure y”ll find it

[@samin6797]

How to bypass Window Defender ? It immediately deletes the file when it senses a keylogger type functionality in a file.

[@koltenspencer407]

How did you get this resolved I’m getting the same problem?

[@samin6797]

@@koltenspencer407 I haven't. 😁

[@ewiz_0262]

@@koltenspencer407 just disable it

[@shadowclean916]

go into windows defender, click "Virus & threat protection", then below "Current threats" you should see "Virus & threat protection settings", click on "manage settings" , scroll down till you see "Exclusions", click on "Add or Remove exclusions", then click on "Add an exclusion", click on "File" it will open up File Explorer and then find your key logger single tap on it then on the bottom right hit "open". Then you should be good to go, hope this helps.

[@omsonawane7465]

go to home of windows defender and then allow the keylogger threat in actions and thats it

[@keithharding]

Thanks great video

[@supernovatluthelightoftheu3221]

43:10 i keep on getting errors I've rechecked the code multiple times re did changed my spam mails password and then updated the code yet it still gives me errors in the code and then says i can't sign in, someone plz help.

[@argon584]

same

[@argon584]

did u fix the error?

[@supernovatluthelightoftheu3221]

@@argon584 nope

[@Rage_x8869]

If you dont recive a e-mail you need to change by your google acc the less secure settings tutorial for the less secure settings 2023 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaq1gmCZjq5ngNk i hope this helps some of you :)

[@zacharyedmond8223]

the pywin 32 module no longer works? Is there an alternative library? Please HALP!

[@aymancassim8944]

Yo man you are a very good tutor👌✌

[@raquelgalvezfarfan9886]

Hello Grant, I started programming with Python not long ago and I'm trying to develop this on Linux (Ubuntu, being more specific), but I keep having the same problem. When writing the code: filename = filename attachment = open(attachment, 'rb') filename and attachment (to the right of the = symbol) show the messages "Unresolved reference 'filename' " and "Unresolved reference 'attachment'" respectively, do you have any idea why this is happening? I've been looking for solutions on Google but none of them seem likely to work. Everything in my code is exactly as you did in the video. Also, if anyone who reads this comment knows the answer I'd be very grateful if you could help me. Thanks in advance!

[@clashhub_]

The error message "Unresolved reference 'filename'" suggests that the variables filename and attachment have not been defined before you try to use them. The line filename = filename doesn't seem to make sense in your context. It appears to be assigning the value of filename to itself, which wouldn't have any effect. Instead, you likely meant to assign some value to filename here.

[@clashhub_]

try this # Define the filename filename = "example.txt" # Open the file in binary mode with open(filename, 'rb') as attachment: # Your file processing code here pass

[@moon911x]

Beginner friendly 😍 i missed dark theme 😊 but it's ok 👌

[@joaquinorgueira4449]

i don't know why but i love u

[@yashdubeyofficial]

Hi...!!! I have some issues with this keylogger 1. The key strokes are not registering accurately means it's very slow and it's not working in any browsers like chrome & Firefox 2. The mail is working but how to decrypt the mail file...???

[@dilmidilshara9359]

can you create a tutorial about how to make mobile based LAN monitoring & controlling app...... thank you!!!

[@ethannevarez6431]

when i try to install scipy or Pillow I get an error occurred when installing the package.

[@gavincoulson3900]

me too

[@AmanSingh-fj5ls]

You haven't shown us the deployment of the keylogger, is it working or not,

[@banemen27]

Can you upload it also to Vimeo, I'm saying this because recently KZbin is removing hacking videos, so don't be surprised if they remove your video. Anyway cool video

[@collinsinfosec]

If it gets taken down, I will go ahead and do that.

[@rawanaholdings27]

thanks bro

[@keeptart7017]

im having a problem, the key logs that get sent to the gmail, they arent there whenever it gets sent.

[@fbiagent8979]

I feel that i did a good work just by following u 😂 But do u know how to make it start automatically in startup on linux ?

[@talpadiea7105]

I installed pywin32 but I get an error saying "no module called win32clipboard". could someone help me out?

[@eduardmart1237]

Does it work in games? What library can capture pressed keys in games?

[@apple.official1480]

mostly the package for the game already has that build inside of it

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

Yeah it can get pressed keys inside of games but that will mostly be unintelligible wasd space etc

[@justin9558]

need help! im on 30:47 but everytime i try to run it tries to open other applications, i cant get it to run.

[@kinoko87_b]

Yeah for me it isnt working, even if type it in pycharm :(

[@nutcoatz6230]

light mode grannttt???!!! MYY EYYYEEESSSS

[@collinsinfosec]

Hehe :)

[@mrnano1991]

Grant one question, I would like to develop this on Ubuntu and then try it on Windows. However, I keep having a problem with pywin32 which I can't install on Linux. Is there any alternative to this library?

[@collinsinfosec]

Hi Kashan. I am not aware of any libraries which would be a good alternative to pywin32! But I applaud you for doing this on Linux 👏

[@Dum3s]

For some odd reason it doesnt show a Key log.txt so when i go to run it the button is all grayed out any fixes

[@Brotisyt]

Can i do it, that the script is copying itself by plug-in an USB stick for a second, and autostart itself, so at PC-Start it starts also? (Without the startup folder, cause Python has no access to this)

[@cribicle4975]

please am having issues in becoming a programmer i don't know what next to do to be an expert am currently taking advance python

[@onlyme4525]

bro there is an issue if use the numbers from the numpad pynput doesn't record it as a number it logged as the serial number of key like 96,97,98,99 you can check it

[@creamsock8886]

For some reason it doesn't work when I try and send the email

[@ANTID0T3]

Hey grant, I have the verbatim of you code on my laptop,but I got an error saying SMTPAuthenticationError

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

Check your login details were correct

[@CyberpHUNK-y4x]

so if i add this to an image and sent it to someone will that redirect the data to my system?

[@iamrichalready]

is it possible to send the strokes log to IP External public?

[@Bilalahmed-xy8by]

hello i am working on keylogger one thing that i am unable to understand how at the same time you are dealing with keylogger n coping clip board n recording voice i mean why you are not stuck in on_press function how oder functions are working

[@khayyamnoor1112]

Hi bilal, i need a keylogger so i can adjust my class attendance could u help

[@SimaAkter-w3o]

" sounddevice.PortAudioError: Error opening InputStream: Device unavailable [PaErrorCode -9985] "Why do I get this error for collecting audio using a microphone? Can you please solve this problem?

[@daringethic]

You might have just one channel, try changing channels to 1 instead of 2

[@sebastian1777]

excuse me Grante, what if my code runs and averything works fine, but when i make the .exe file and i run it, appears "Failed to execute script"

[@slyprince800]

You should not allow the key logger to print or display anything

[@stratosmav7993]

Hey i. I have a problem with python on my computer. It doesn't let me install libraries. So i can't import win32clipboard, and many other things. Please help. If you can also please write a link where i can download them.

[@likiyadiig7822]

NameError: name 'on_press' is not defined Why is it giving me this error?

[@nejatmena1362]

I cant figure out why my MIMEBase is not working :(

[@sebastianrolek9747]

I have a problem with downloading notes :/ I signed for your mail but only received "Do you want more emails?" mail :/ Can you fix this or upload this in different place? :(

[@collinsinfosec]

I apologize for this error Sebastian. You can email me, [e-mail] and I will send you the notes directly.

[@mayamore7354]

If we have access to another pc and they shared screen on our pc, then can we see the keystrokes of their pc in our pc without pycharm installed in their pc

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

They won't need pycharm, just the python interpreter. If you are serious about this you could take a few days to learn the basics of a compiled language and rewrite this in that instead so it is an executable.

[@jackkime1050]

i am having an isue that is when I open up the email it is just a blank page how do I fix this?

[@tabrisss818]

we are alone friend...

[@biodunadeniji8626]

I'm not getting any email and no error was thrown.

[@BrkoJay]

hi grant i have a problem, when i run my keylogger.py file and open my email i dont get a .txt file instead i get a "noname" which i cant view

[@herbi1605]

hi, you should check if there is " ; ", not " : " . That was my problem so I hope its gonna help you. -> "attachment; filename=

[@aryangupta7414]

Hey Grant I need some help to convert my backdoor in .exe format. I made this amazing backdoor with persistence,screenshot,deleting it's self and all other features I felt were cool but I cannot convert It into .exe. It gets converted but it fails to execute. Can u please help. You did not really show how to compile it. Since I am an absolute biggner in coding malwares I need so help.

[@collinsinfosec]

Yes! No worries. Could you email me: [e-mail] - this would be better for me to explain.

[@aryangupta7414]

@@collinsinfosec I send it on email given on this channel.

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

You could learn a simpler compiled language in a few days and rewrite it so it can be compiled

[@English.with.Mateusz]

I can't import Scripy, can you help me out? ErrOR: No matching distribution found for scripy what can I do?

[@itznafle1134]

cuz its scipy not scripy

[@English.with.Mateusz]

@@itznafle1134 😬😳, thanks

[@marfcast101]

Any replacement for win32 on mac/linux

[@rishavmehra9437]

win32clipboard OR pywin32 how to install this module

[@kaiserexe4072]

Great tutorial. I found a few things while I was testing it (it could be just me, so i may be wrong). I did not include, the encryption, audio, or screenshot. When the program start running, the contents of the keylog.txt file attached to the new email, will be from the previous run. In other words, if the keylog file is empty when I ran the program, the email, txt file I receive on my email will be empty no matter what I type. Is there a way to solve this?

[@nelsonfernandes657]

I too want to know this

[@DANIELPARISE]

You'll have to ensure that the code saves the keylog.txt file before the code executes any of the Gmail code. Make sure you're calling the functions in the correct order and you should be fine.

[@supernovatluthelightoftheu3221]

i think if we move the send email function below the keyloggers code it might work

[@rhfjfgzrdg8754]

Did u get the answer to this problem? :(

[@mridulgupta5257]

Hello Brother .. i recently installed kali linux 2020.1a live on my laptop i got an very disgusting issuse of inbult wireless chipset in my laptop doesn't get recognized by OS... what should i have to do now although i have tried lot of youtube videos that works but when is use to scan with them there is no output ! please help! thanks

[@kevindsouza9572]

Bro, the NIC card which comes by default with the laptop is quite a shitty one. I recommend you to use another network adapter(external ) even if you were using windows. But for rn, you can go ahead and search for external USB adapters that support monitor mode. I recommend going with some models of ALFA, Panda and even TP-Link (TL-WN722N version 1 this is the cheapest one).

[@algcc]

@@kevindsouza9572 i love tp-link, best external network adapter in history frfr

[@WildAhhMarcus]

How could you turn this into a application

[@unknownguy2313]

How to run this project

[@ClashWithHuzefa]

Hahaha, Bro you coded a Trojan, but in title named as "Advanced Keylogger", Sus...

[@omsonawane7465]

but this trojan is basically a keylogger ..right

[@syedmuhammadali5123]

Kindly show the Working of the project

[@keithharding]

Have you got an exe file to work yet?

[@checknate8820]

who else is attempting to write this by only looking at the notes? I so far got a basic key logger and email function just from reading the notes.

[@collinsinfosec]

You are following the recommendation :)

[@checknate8820]

@@collinsinfosec I finished getting all the functions coded. Your code is more "pythonic" than mine. It looks like I took a chain saw and chopped some code together :)

[@keeplian]

How i can make keylogger for Android

[@arthurg5966]

Hackerman

[@collinsinfosec]

Haha, i will be a hackker!!!

[@gauthamtheerth4009]

Is this code still works in 2022 @ Grant Collins

[@ashiqurrahman1013]

I have a question??

[@fun4ayush]

it will work on linux????

[@corbynferraro6661]

SOS! SOS! SOS! I am having a few problems its telling me that keys_information is wrong and is highlighted red then when I run it nothing happens until I hit a key. say I hit "h" itll show " h [ ] " but then it breaks and gives me a bunch of stuff saying that this line in this and that im just going to send you the message it gives me maybe you can see what I cant please help!!!!1Unhandled exception in listener callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\pynput\_util\__init__.py", line 162, in inner return f(self, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\pynput\keyboard\_win32.py", line 280, in _process self.on_press(key) File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\pynput\_util\__init__.py", line 78, in inner if f(*args) is False: File "C:/Users/Ben/PycharmProjects/untitled1/project/keylogger.py", line 43, in on_press key.append(key) AttributeError: 'KeyCode' object has no attribute 'append' Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/Ben/PycharmProjects/untitled1/project/keylogger.py", line 70, in listener.join() File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\pynput\_util\__init__.py", line 210, in join six.reraise(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback) File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\six.py", line 702, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\pynput\_util\__init__.py", line 162, in inner return f(self, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\pynput\keyboard\_win32.py", line 280, in _process self.on_press(key) File "C:\Users\Ben\PycharmProjects\untitled1\venv\lib\site-packages\pynput\_util\__init__.py", line 78, in inner if f(*args) is False: File "C:/Users/Ben/PycharmProjects/untitled1/project/keylogger.py", line 43, in on_press key.append(key) AttributeError: 'KeyCode' object has no attribute 'append'

[@corbynferraro6661]

I think it has something to do with the "scipy" because when I do the pip install through the term. I get an error message

[@corbynferraro6661]

so I got it working kinda but after I hit one key like " space" or " a-z" itll only tract one word and then give me the last message like I sent you

[@gerryedroso1414]

will this be functional in an android?

[@emperorj4783]

No. Because it has functions that run only on Windows or Linux or MacOS. And you may have to re-write it in Java or Kotlin

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

You would have to use the android, possibly Linux API calls to make this work. I'm also pretty sure androids are sandboxed a ton. You are better off making a malicious keyboard app

[@chineduifeanyi552]

How do you make this FUD

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

Use a good quality crypter or wrote your own, add VM detection so the software fails to execute if it is sandboxed. Information is sparse but it will be out there. If you are using a tool to compile the python into an executable, you will always get detected as they have been used to produce many types of malware so it will easilt get file signature detected

[@MuhammadArhamMahmood]

Can anyone tell me how to run this code

[@hannah-bw1rx]

have you figure out? please help me if you do

[@jdlopez131]

is there a way to track when the user visits a website? somehow record the time and the website visited live

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

Grab the window title, or you might be able to read the browser history, but that might be quite advanced

[@nsvd-xb5me]

What is the clipboard function for? I dont understand what it is used for and why it is necessary, please let me know!

[@jacobhinchliffe6659]

People always put sensitive stuff in the clipboard

[@yilinlian7995]

Hi Grant 👋

[@collinsinfosec]

Hi Szumi!

[@jafetl.ch.8961]

🖤

[@Rage_x8869]

If you dont recive a e-mail you need to change by your google acc the less secure settings tutorial for the less secure settings 2023 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaq1gmCZjq5ngNk i hope this helps some of you :)

[@zoham1735]

heyy my email function is not working. i m not getting any emails still after i set my settings in google account please help

[@hannah-bw1rx]

@@zoham1735 have you figure out? i need some help

[@mahmoudtotti8657]

do u know how can i detect keylogger on my pc using python

[@ashiqurrahman1013]

Love your video...???

[@teo999]

I think it's one of the best "basic" keyloggers I've seen :0. Although I have a small problem: After writing the encrypt function, when executing the file, I get: Process finished with exit code 0 Does anyone know why it ends like this?

[@anubhavdeswal8914]

How did you solve it?

[@teo999]

@@anubhavdeswal8914 I don't remember 😈😈

[@algcc]

"Process finished with exit code 0" means there was no error, you were def new when you wrote this

[@teo999]

@@algcc yeah i was new but almost 3 years ago

[@algcc]

@@teo999 well that was kind of my point but i guess i phrased it badly, i edited the comment so its more accurate

[@ShivamPatel-ee6in]

Because goggle has updated their policy for third app access. I am not able to access, it says permission denied. I have on two step verification and created app password too but nothing works. Please help me

[@omsonawane7465]

same yr

[@ericouhl5423]

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[@guilhermefabbri6294]

hacking tiiiiime

[@69senseisensei69]

thanks

[@thiagooliveiradasilva6921]

I want subtitle in portuguese

[@pixeldoor4792]

Feel free to make one.

[@Chris-ck6se]

i need help bc i have installed all packages but its shows me its not installed prnt.sc/sxt8lv

[@vagueorigin7320]

extremely long winded in areas, but a damn tutorial.