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Why we included this project

Security researchers and red-teamers who work with remote access trojans and command-and-control infrastructure will get real mileage out of this one. It is a curated index of 250-plus open-source RAT and C2 projects, paired with more than 1,200 analysis reports, blog posts, and videos, so a tool name in the list usually leads straight to write-ups about how that implant behaves in the wild. The sections split open-source tools, commercial remote administration software, and known malware families, which helps when you are tracking down a specific piece of malware or trying to understand how a family operates. Since this is a research map rather than a deployable tool, treat it as a starting point: browse the entries, then follow the links to the actual repositories and analyses. Analysts writing detection signatures and defenders who want to recognize common RAT behaviors before an incident will find the collection saves them a lot of hunting.