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Along with this growing interest, the risk of data breaches has also increased, as virtual offices often handle confidential documents for businesses. For this reason, existing studies have explored Metaverse user authentication methods; however, their methods suffer from several limitations, such as the need for additional sensors and one-time authentication. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel behavioral authentication framework for secure Metaverse workspaces. The proposed framework adopts keyboard typing behavior that is common in the office and does not cause fatigue to users as an authentication factor to afford active and continuous user authentication. Based on our evaluation, the user identification accuracy achieved an average of approximately 95% among 11 of 15 participants, with the highest-performing user reaching an accuracy of 99.77%. In addition, the proposed framework achieved an average false acceptance rate of 0.41% and a false rejection rate of 4.02%. 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