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Vol. 1 · Ed. 2026
CyberGlossary
Entry № 026

Agent Tesla

Agent Tesla 是什么?

Agent TeslaA .NET-based remote access trojan and information stealer active since 2014, sold openly as a commercial product and distributed primarily through phishing emails carrying malicious Office documents and archive attachments.


Agent Tesla is a .NET-based info-stealer and remote-access trojan that has been continuously active since 2014, sold openly as a 'monitoring' product on its own clearnet site and through reseller channels. It exists in dozens of slightly different versions because affiliates routinely repack the binary. Capabilities include keystroke logging, clipboard capture, screenshot capture, webcam access, theft of browser passwords and cookies, mail client credentials (Outlook, Thunderbird, FoxMail), VPN client credentials, FTP credentials, and exfiltration over SMTP, FTP, HTTP, or Telegram bots. The dominant infection vector is phishing email: lure documents embed Equation Editor (CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802) exploits or contain malicious archive attachments delivering a loader stage. Agent Tesla is one of the longest-running commodity stealers and routinely tops monthly malware ranking reports from anti-spam vendors, especially in business-email-compromise-adjacent campaigns. Defenses include disabling Office Equation Editor, attachment-detonation sandboxes, and EDR detections on the common loader behaviors (process hollowing into RegSvcs.exe, AspNetCompiler.exe).

示例

  1. 01

    A phishing email with subject 'PURCHASE ORDER' delivers a .iso containing an Agent Tesla loader that exfiltrates Outlook stored credentials via SMTP.

  2. 02

    An EDR rule alerts on RegSvcs.exe making outbound SMTP connections to a non-corporate mail server — a near-pathognomonic Agent Tesla pattern.

常见问题

Agent Tesla 是什么?

A .NET-based remote access trojan and information stealer active since 2014, sold openly as a commercial product and distributed primarily through phishing emails carrying malicious Office documents and archive attachments. 它属于网络安全的 恶意软件 分类。

Agent Tesla 是什么意思?

A .NET-based remote access trojan and information stealer active since 2014, sold openly as a commercial product and distributed primarily through phishing emails carrying malicious Office documents and archive attachments.

Agent Tesla 是如何工作的?

Agent Tesla is a .NET-based info-stealer and remote-access trojan that has been continuously active since 2014, sold openly as a 'monitoring' product on its own clearnet site and through reseller channels. It exists in dozens of slightly different versions because affiliates routinely repack the binary. Capabilities include keystroke logging, clipboard capture, screenshot capture, webcam access, theft of browser passwords and cookies, mail client credentials (Outlook, Thunderbird, FoxMail), VPN client credentials, FTP credentials, and exfiltration over SMTP, FTP, HTTP, or Telegram bots. The dominant infection vector is phishing email: lure documents embed Equation Editor (CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802) exploits or contain malicious archive attachments delivering a loader stage. Agent Tesla is one of the longest-running commodity stealers and routinely tops monthly malware ranking reports from anti-spam vendors, especially in business-email-compromise-adjacent campaigns. Defenses include disabling Office Equation Editor, attachment-detonation sandboxes, and EDR detections on the common loader behaviors (process hollowing into RegSvcs.exe, AspNetCompiler.exe).

如何防御 Agent Tesla?

针对 Agent Tesla 的防御通常结合技术控制与运营实践,详见上方完整定义。

Agent Tesla 还有哪些其他名称?

常见的别称包括: AgentTesla, OriginLogger (rebrand)。

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