Remote Access Tool Services Have Been Installed - Security
Detects service installation of different remote access tools software. These software are often abused by threat actors to perform
Detection logic
Detection requirements
Known benign triggers
- The rule doesn't look for anything suspicious so false positives are expected. If you use one of the tools mentioned, comment it out
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| redcanary.com/blog/misbehaving-rats/ | 9 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- c8b00925-926c-47e3-beea-298fd563728e
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.executionattack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalation
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1