# samyk/skyjack

A drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take full control over any other Parrot or 3DR drones within wireless or flying distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control.

Repository: https://github.com/samyk/skyjack
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/skyjack
Homepage: https://samy.pl/skyjack/
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2017-11-21T06:25:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4656, "days_push": 3207, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1831, forks 425 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:41.880896+00:00)

## What it is
SkyJack is a drone hacking tool that autonomously seeks out, disconnects the owner of, and takes wireless control of nearby Parrot AR.Drones and 3D Robotics drones, turning them into remotely controlled 'zombie drones'. It runs on Linux/Raspberry Pi using aircrack-ng for WiFi monitor mode and deauth attacks, node.js for drone control, and a TI CC1111 sub-GHz RF transceiver for the 3DR attack.

## Use cases
- take over control of nearby parrot ar drones over wifi
- hijack 3dr drones via sub-ghz rf frequency hopping prediction
- demonstrate drone hijacking vulnerabilities in security research
- run drone takeover attack from a laptop without owning a drone
- deauth a drone owner and impersonate them to control the drone
- build an army of zombie drones under one controller

## When to choose
- you are a security researcher demonstrating wireless drone takeover vulnerabilities
- you need a proof-of-concept for WiFi deauth and RF hijacking attacks against Parrot or 3DR drones
- you want to study legacy drone security flaws on Linux with aircrack-ng

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool or support for modern drones - the project is unmaintained since 2017
- you want to control your own drone legitimately rather than attack others
- you need a tool that works on non-Linux platforms or without monitor-mode-capable WiFi hardware
- unauthorized use - hijacking drones you do not own is illegal in most jurisdictions

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: security, penetration-testing, networking, workflow-automation
- domain: security, robotics, penetration-testing, iot
- platform: python, iot
- tags: drone-hacking, wireless-attack, wifi-deauth, zombie-drones, parrot-ardrone, rf-hijacking, security-research, aircrack-ng, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- samyk/skyjack (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.880896+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:19:13.169146+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/samyk/skyjack (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.880896+00:00, sha acd0cfd69943)
  - homepage: https://samy.pl/skyjack/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:58:04.080585+00:00, sha 52c928ed55d1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.