Making the Perfect Red Team Dropbox (Part 1)

This post guides readers through building a USB attack and research platform on a NanoPi R1S using Armbian and P4wnP1 ALOA, covering initial setup, enabling and deploying USB HID profiles via a web UI, optional Wi‑Fi AP configuration considerations, and basic validation of USB device enumeration. It further shows how to compile and run USBProxy to capture keystrokes from a passthrough USB keyboard, noting minor configuration tweaks and output handling. The article concludes by previewing a follow‑up on using the device for Ethernet man‑in‑the‑middle operations.