Make a keylogger using the ZLogger tool

David Artykov
Purple Team
Published in
4 min readApr 23, 2021

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Many keyloggers are considered to be Trojan programs because they conceal themselves in the system and have rootkit functionality.

From pandasecurity.com

Keyloggers are a form of monitoring software that records a user’s keystrokes. These keystroke loggers, one of the oldest types of cyber attack, record the information you type into a website or application and send it to a third party.

ZLogger is one of the python-based keyloggers written by a security professional, Zaid Al-Quraishi. The main feature of this tool is to create a persistent keylogger for Windows and Linux operating systems. ZLogger does not require admin privileges, and it starts with a system startup. It captures every key strobe and sends a report via email to an attacker.

To download ZLogger, visit the following page https://github.com/z00z/ZLogger and copy the downloadable link.

Open your terminal and download the tool using the “git clone” command.

Ex: (root@kali:/opt# git clone https://github.com/z00z/ZLogger.git).

Next, change your directory to “ZLogger” and list the contents.

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