This project explores USB device emulation attacks—commonly called BadUSB—by demonstrating how commodity USB hardware can impersonate keyboards, network adapters, or storage devices to perform scripted actions on a host. It typically contains firmware examples, payloads, and explanations showing how a device presenting as a Human Interface Device (HID) can inject keystrokes, open shells, or orchestrate data exfiltration when plugged into a machine. The codebase is frequently intended for security research and defensive testing: defenders and red teams use it to validate endpoint controls, USB whitelisting, and user training. Due to the dual-use nature of such techniques, responsible repositories emphasize lab-only experiments, consent-based testing, and mitigations like disabling autorun, enforcing device policies, and using endpoint detection.
Features
- Categorized payloads, e.g. exfiltration, phishing, prank, recon, remote_access etc.
- Naming & structure conventions for payloads (authors, targets, descriptions) for maintainability
- Supports “staged” payloads: payloads which fetch or rely on external code or resources (user-hosted) for more complex operations
- Scripts in various languages / payload styles (duckyscript, shell etc.) appropriate to Flipper Zero’s BadUSB capability
- Encourages community contributions with best-practices, style rules and review of pull requests etc.
- Payloads intended for preparedness, testing, proof of concept, education rather than malicious use; includes disclaimers about legality and risk.
Project Samples
