# USB Keystrokes

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If you have a pcap containing the communication via USB of a keyboard like the following one:

![](<../../../.gitbook/assets/image (959).png>)

You can use the tool [**ctf-usb-keyboard-parser**](https://github.com/carlospolop-forks/ctf-usb-keyboard-parser) to get what was written in the communication:

```bash
tshark -r ./usb.pcap -Y 'usb.capdata && usb.data_len == 8' -T fields -e usb.capdata | sed 's/../:&/g2' > keystrokes.txt
python3 usbkeyboard.py ./keystrokes.txt
```

You can read more information and find some scripts about how to analyse this in:

* [https://medium.com/@ali.bawazeeer/kaizen-ctf-2018-reverse-engineer-usb-keystrok-from-pcap-file-2412351679f4](https://medium.com/@ali.bawazeeer/kaizen-ctf-2018-reverse-engineer-usb-keystrok-from-pcap-file-2412351679f4)
* [https://github.com/tanc7/HacktheBox\_Deadly\_Arthropod\_Writeup](https://github.com/tanc7/HacktheBox\_Deadly\_Arthropod\_Writeup)

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