Trojan.SlayerRAT

Trojan.SlayerRAT is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that lets threat actors control your PC through a network connection. Since Trojan.SlayerRAT's author is marketing Trojan.SlayerRAT as a service currently, its infection methods and the consequences of an infection may be inconsistent between two or more attacks. Malware experts classify almost all backdoor-capable Trojans as high-level threats and removing Trojan.SlayerRAT only should be done with anti-malware tools capable of guaranteeing its complete uninstallation.

The User-Friendly Trojan Slaying Your Security

A successful Trojan campaign requires an efficient interface for its con artist admin just as much as it needs good proliferation exploits and a well-targeted, damaging payload. The design of Trojans under the 'as a service' model is most often relegated to file encrypting Trojans and ransomware, but backdoor Trojans, rootkits, and RATs also are relevant products for such business strategies. Trojan.SlayerRAT, first promoted in February of 2016, is one case of a Trojan granting con artists nearly complete control over a remote system with as friendly a navigation system as possible.

Trojan.SlayerRAT's users, most likely acquired under a premium rental basis, may build personal servers with this Trojan's built-in client interface, including flexible variables, such as the executable file's name, the directory it installs itself into, and whether or not it infects USB devices. The threat actors then distribute the generated EXE through whatever exploits they prefer. Trojan.SlayerRAT notifies the admin of a new infection with the date of its installation and other details, such as the version of the operating system.

Malware experts saw evidence of a small but flexible range of attack possibilities from Trojan.SlayerRAT, although not all of these are verifiable as functioning. Some of the features Trojan.SlayerRAT's author is marketing include:

• Using your PC's resources to commit DDoS attacks, which simulates heavy network traffic that can crash servers.
• Launching system commands through a Command Prompt interface.
• Using a remote desktop feature that grants visual and interface-based access to the PC.
• Formatting the PC.
• Leveraging spyware modules.
• Modifying the system Registry for purposes such as enabling threatening software or disabling security software.

Trojan.SlayerRAT implements all of the above, and more, in a central administrative panel through a combination of check boxes, database entries, and text fields. Other con artists require no coding knowledge or skill for making use of most of its features.

Snipping the Cords Binding Your PC to Trojan.SlayerRAT

While Trojan.SlayerRAT's author shows some signs of basing operations in France, con artists renting Trojan.SlayerRAT clients are unlikely to limit their campaigns to that country. RAT campaigns can load their Trojans in illegal downloads or fake software patches, install them via brute-force attacks manually, or use spam messages for disguising the installers. Trojan.SlayerRAT presents heavily customizable components, and victims aren't likely of being able to detect Trojan.SlayerRAT from specific files, processes or folders being on their systems.

If Trojan.SlayerRAT's threat actor doesn't take actions for disabling them, your security software may block Trojan.SlayerRAT or be capable of removing Trojan.SlayerRAT during their system scans. Post-disinfection, you should assume that all data on the PC is potentially in con artists' possession, making changing passwords and re-securing accounts especially urgent.

A Trojan's payload corresponds to the visibility of its symptoms rarely. Assuming that an older, 'invisible' threat like Trojan.SlayerRAT isn't a threat to your computer is one assumption more likely than not to backfire in expensive ways.