ClipboardMonitor

Overview

ClipboardMonitor is an application running in the background that tracks clipboard usage to detect PAN data.

Installation

The logs are written into event log. In order to add or remove the log source, you need administration rights during installation and uninstallation.

1. In an elevated terminal/cmd/powershell session, run ClipboardMonitor -i (or /i or --install).
2. Run the ClipboardMonitor.
3. Success.

Uninstallation

In an elevated terminal/cmd/powershell session, run ClipboardMonitor -u (or /u or --uninstall).

Usage

USAGE: ClipboardMonitor [ARGUMENTS]
-i,/i,--install			Installs the application (Needs Admin rights).
-u,/u,--uninstall		Installs the application (Needs Admin rights).
-?, -h, /h, --help		Displays this message box.

WARNING

ClipboardMonitor requires Administrator (SeDebugPrivilege) privileges as of latest release.

In case of interruption, such as running taskkill command or killing the process using Task Manager, user will get a BSOD CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED.

Development

ClipboardMonitor is built with .NET 6 and WPF. Therefore, you need Visual Studio with .NET Desktop Development features for development.