{
  "family": "revengerat",
  "sample_count": 1,
  "category": "ransomware",
  "description": "<h3>Executive Summary</h3>\nRevengeRAT is a highly capable, commercially available Remote Access Trojan (RAT) sold on underground cybercrime forums. It provides threat actors with a fully featured graphical user interface (GUI) to covertly control infected Windows machines, conduct espionage, and steal sensitive data. It is widely utilized by both financially motivated cybercriminals and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups.\n\n<h3>Infection Vector and Technical Capabilities</h3>\nRevengeRAT is heavily distributed via spear-phishing campaigns utilizing malicious macro-enabled Office documents, or it is dropped by other loaders (like GuLoader). Attackers frequently host the payload on legitimate cloud services (like Pastebin or Discord) to bypass perimeter blocking.\n\nOnce executed, RevengeRAT provides extensive, silent remote control capabilities:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Surveillance and Espionage:</strong> The RAT grants the attacker the ability to covertly view the victim's desktop in real-time, activate the webcam and microphone, log all keystrokes (keylogging), and steal saved passwords from web browsers and email clients.</li>\n<li><strong>Credential Harvesting:</strong> It actively targets and extracts credentials from browsers (Chrome, Firefox), FTP clients (FileZilla), and cryptocurrency wallets.</li>\n<li><strong>File System Manipulation and Execution:</strong> The attacker has full interactive access to the file system. They can download, upload, and execute files, allowing for the silent deployment of secondary malware, such as ransomware or crypto-miners. It can also execute PowerShell and CMD commands remotely.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3>Threat Assessment</h3>\nA RevengeRAT infection is a critical security incident. The presence of an active RAT means the network perimeter has completely failed, and a human adversary currently has interactive, administrative-level access to the internal network. Data exfiltration and lateral movement are highly likely.\n\n<h3>Incident Response and Remediation</h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Immediate Isolation:</strong> The highest priority is to physically disconnect the infected machine from the network to sever the attacker's interactive connection and prevent further lateral movement.</li>\n<li><strong>Forensic Triage:</strong> Utilize Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to identify the specific processes injected by RevengeRAT and analyze its network connections to identify the C2 infrastructure.</li>\n<li><strong>Enterprise Password Reset and Re-imaging:</strong> Because the attacker had interactive access and keylogging capabilities, all credentials used on or accessible from the compromised endpoint must be reset immediately. The endpoint itself must undergo a complete bare-metal wipe and re-image.</li>\n</ul>",
  "cta": "Published by the SystemHelpdesk team.",
  "aliases": [
    "Backdoor.RevengeRAT",
    "Trojan.Revenge",
    "Win32/RevengeRAT"
  ],
  "enrichment_level": "insufficient_information",
  "faq": [],
  "faq_count": 0,
  "mitre_attack": [
    "T1059.003",
    "T1056.001",
    "T1125",
    "T1021"
  ],
  "cisa_advisory": null,
  "last_updated": "2026-07-02T06:48:21Z",
  "type": "Remote Access Trojan (RAT)",
  "target_industries": [
    "Global / Opportunistic"
  ],
  "motivation": "Opportunistic",
  "threat_actors": [
    "Unknown / Cybercriminal"
  ],
  "target_geographies": [
    "Global"
  ]
}