PRESENTED BY:
Rajeev Kumar

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INTRODUCTION:
 Remote administration trojans are the malicious pieces of code often embedded in legitimate progam performing the functions which the users don’t want to perform.
 RATs generally resemble the program that the user wishes to run.
 It is used to connect and manage multiple computers remotely.
HISTORY
 Trojan horses are named after the Greek’s gifting a huge wooden horse to the Troy that housed the soldiers who emerged in the night and attacked the city.As it is remotely administrated so it has been named as RATs.
WORKING MECHANISM
 RATs work as client-server pairs.server resides on the infected machine and client resides elsewhere across the network.
 Using standard TCP/IP protocols,the client sends instructions to the server and the server does what it is told to do on the infected computer.
 RATs install themselves and starts showing their effects.
EFFECTS OF RATs
 RATs can generally do the following:-
 Download,upload,delete and rename files
 Format drives
 Open CD-ROM tray
 Drop viruses and worms
 Log keystrokes
 Hack passwords,credit card no.
 Print text,play sound.