qwqdanchun/DcRat

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived

Adoption not part of the score

1011 stars · 336 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

DcRat is an open-source remote administration tool (RAT) written in C# for Windows, providing remote desktop, file management, and remote control features. The author discontinued development in 2022 due to widespread malicious abuse of the tool, and no further updates are planned.

Use cases

• remote administration of windows machines
• red team remote access tooling
• study how RATs work for malware analysis
• remote desktop control over a LAN in authorized tests
• learn C# networking and remote-control architecture

When to choose

• you need a well-known open-source RAT sample for security research or malware analysis
• you are doing authorized red-team work and want a reference implementation
• you want to study C# remote-control tooling internals

When to avoid

• you want a maintained or supported tool - development stopped in 2022
• you need legitimate remote desktop administration - use RDP, VNC, or TeamViewer instead
• any use on systems you do not own or lack explicit authorization to control - this is illegal
• you need a safe project - this tool is widely abused as malware and may be flagged by antivirus

Facets

application · maturity abandoned

security reverse-engineering gui security penetration-testing windows developer-tools windows dotnet rat remote-access-tool red-team backdoor csharp remote-desktop infosec discontinued remote-control desktop

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