Hi Jow Forums , I need some help.
I found this usb attached to my computer. I live alone but many friends come inside my room. I was wondering if there is any way to tell what this thing does. I am a little paranoid as you can tell.
Thanks.
USB Help
Logan Edwards
Bentley Nguyen
remove the black casing
Robert Flores
lsusb/Device manager
Tyler Ramirez
It doesn't seems like rubber duck so I would say it is some kind of USB receiver. Anyway carefully pull down the plastic and post detail foto of the chip here
Brayden Wilson
It's a wireless USB connector for wireless mice and shit. It was probably attached to your computer the entire time but you never noticed.
Ian Lee
It wasn't there before. My desktop has a mice and a keyboard and my Bluetooth receiver is larger.
Heres the pic:
Gavin Jackson
looks like circuits and shit
Owen Thomas
i can't see a mic, it looks like hardware keylogger with some sort of antenna (probably wifi or bluetooth).
Aaron Rogers
Can you see any of the chip numbers?
Gavin Jenkins
That's the same side of the usb, just flipped the opposite way (hairs on the plastic, spot on the metal). You don't want to flip it over because theres a logo on it.
Grayson Rogers
It's a bluetooth dongle. Someone probably just wanted to use their own wireless mouse on the computer.
Jonathan Morris
Bluetooth adapter
Nathaniel Smith
its the shit for a wireless keyboard or mouse
Cooper Lewis
It's just a cheap wireless mouse / gamepad receiver.
Jeremiah Russell
it is merely a flash dongle
Carson Hill
*zip disquette
Leo Parker
That's what we in the industry call a "stubby stick drive", format C:\ and we Gucci
Jason Lee
This
Thomas Lee
One of your friends tried to install gentoo on your machine
Angel Williams
This. Fuck off op
Justin Walker
I'm just stupid.. heres the other side.
People come into my room but they don't bring mice/keyboards inside, that's why it's fucking weird, theres no real reason for this thing to be here..
I can't see anything other whats in this pic.. I'm trying to remove the metal part but it can't really do it, trying though
Matthew Lopez
is this from the hn thread?
Nathaniel Davis
Post PID/VID
Ayden Long
I have a wifi adapter that looks exactly like that
Xavier Evans
OP here
VendorID 0e8f
ProductID 2517
Landon Fisher
Remove the metal piece to reveal more of the chip.
So far I see an oscillator, IC and probably some capacitors.
The 6 lines on the pcb might be used as antennas. Need to see more of chip.
Julian James
Keyboard/mouse dongle. You are just paranoid.
William Stewart
Look identical to the receiver of my wireless mouse and keyboard.
Andrew Howard
Someone stuck an unknown hardware device in their machine. That's not paranoia.
Carter Kelly
No shit. It was pretty easy to guess and the PID/VID confirmed that.
Adrian Bennett
If I made a hardware keylogger, I'd make it look similar too.
Isaiah Wright
There, I took the metal part off.
so the PID/VID said something about what this is?
Aaron Taylor
I like how they do the antenna.
Charles Rodriguez
looks like a wifi dongle you twat
Owen Martinez
Just fucking google 0e8f:2517 already. And you will see it's from GreenAsia Inc.
You will see people using that shit with some Raspberry Pi. Pretty good evidence that it's nothing malicious.
Also some other shit they make: devicehunt.com
And a WinUAE log with the same PID/VID: eab.abime.net
Dylan Brown
It didn't reveal much new, but here you have:
An IC, probably with computing ability and a small program on it. There's no saying what it does.
An antenna. Either for receiving or for sending, no way to tell.
Random components that are required for the IC to work.
That's all. So basically you have something that can possibly compute, save, load, send and receive over usb, send and receive over wireless.
Nathan Morris
Liam Martinez
Lies.
Julian Brooks
Probably it's true. Because OP is always a fag.
Aaron Rogers
OP Twat here...
Shit, mb.. thing is i'm not that tech saavy and since the PC didn't recognize the dongle and I wasnt given any Bluetooth/wifi capabilities by it and the computer already has bluetooth, wifi, keyboard, mouse and everything connected to it.. AND noone touches it for other than music, it seemed pretty fucking weird to me...
Thank you so much for your time, even though i still don't know for sure, tearing it apart and getting some info that people relate to harmless stuff makes me feel a lil better.
Gabriel Sanchez
Probably either a wireless keyboard/mouse receiver or a Bluetooth adapter. There aren't a lot of things that small.
Angel Watson
OP Twat continues:
Also, I remember my friends (the ones that hang out here) keylogging computers back in highschool.. so.. there's that
Xavier Young
It's from some cheap wireless keyboard or mouse. Quality is shit just to keep costs down. Same goes for the device that you don't have.
Elijah Sanchez
Pretty hard do keylog shit because that's just a receiver. And nothing more.
Gavin Scott
It's for a wireless mouse.
Logan Howard
There is one IC on board, I don't see an antenna, so I will assume this communicates to the internet via the computer itself (if at all).
My guess is it's a keylogger, one of your guests were probably trying to steal your passwords.
Those are through holes not antenna. The crystal is for USB communication.
Jace Gomez
The device can use the network connection on the computer itself. Literally no defenses against this in windows/macos/linux because it's assumed that if you connect something to your computer, you understand the risks a malicious device could contain.