Remote Administration Tool
Shubham, Chandan Acharya, M. Prabu · International journal of advance research and innovative ideas in education · 2017
Remote Administration Tools are programs used to remotely gain control of the computer that it is attacking and giving the attacker unhindered access to the system resources and thereby compromising the privacy of the victim. These RATs can be injected in a computer via E-mail, application, games, links, updates etc. A backdoor can be created from which payload is inserted into the target computer. Once installed these RATs can give the root access of the computer. RAT hides the process running in the background to cover the tracks so that the anti-virus installed in the system cannot detect it. Through RATs the host can control the webcam, keyboard, and the running processes and can install any malicious software in the system.