RMM
Faronics Insight
Faronics Insight is a classroom / lab management platform by Faronics Corporation (Vancouver, BC, Canada) that provides Teacher-to-Student remote control, screen monitoring, screen broadcasting, application and web blocking, keylogging, browser-history collection, and remote command execution across managed Student endpoints. The Insight Student agent (FIStudentAgent.exe / FIStudentSvc.exe / FIStudentUI.exe / STAHelper.exe) installs as a SYSTEM service on the managed device, while the Insight Teacher console drives the Students via an Insight Connector intermediary. While marketed for K-12 / EDU classroom management, the same Teacher → Student remote-control, monitoring, and command capabilities meet the LOLRMM RMM-shape definition and are part of the Faronics product family from issue 151.
Tool overview
- Category
- RMM
- Research authors
- @MHaggis
- Created
- 2026-05-04
- Last modified
- 2026-05-04
- Privileges
- SYSTEM
- Free / availability
- 30 day trial
- Verification required
- Signed - 'Faronics Corporation' (DigiCert Trusted G4 Code Signing RSA4096 SHA384 2021 CA1 / DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA)
- Supported platforms
Android
ChromeOS
Windows
iOS
macOS
Capabilities
Executables & installation paths
- Filename
- FIStudentSvc.exe
- OriginalFileName
- FIStudentSvc.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student Windows service
- Filename
- FIStudentAgent.exe
- OriginalFileName
- FIStudentAgent.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student agent
- Filename
- FIStudentUI.exe
- OriginalFileName
- FIStudentUI.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student user-interface process
- Filename
- STAHelper.exe
- OriginalFileName
- STAHelper.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student / Teacher helper executable (commonly flagged by AV; vendor-recommended whitelist)
- Filename
- StudentSvc.exe
- OriginalFileName
- StudentSvc.exe
- Description
- Insight Student service (legacy filename)
- Filename
- InsightInstaller.exe
- OriginalFileName
- InsightInstaller.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight unified installer
- Filename
- InsightInstallerStudent.exe
- OriginalFileName
- InsightInstallerStudent.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student installer
- Filename
- InsightInstallerTeacher.exe
- OriginalFileName
- InsightInstallerTeacher.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Teacher installer
Installation paths
C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Student\*
C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Teacher\*
C:\Program Files (x86)\Faronics\Insight Student\*
C:\Program Files (x86)\Faronics\Insight Teacher\*
*\Faronics\Insight Student\STAHelper.exe
*\Faronics\Insight Teacher\STAHelper.exe
*\Faronics\Insight Student\FIStudentSvc.exe
*\Faronics\Insight Student\FIStudentAgent.exe
*\Faronics\Insight Student\FIStudentUI.exe
FIStudentAgent.exe
FIStudentSvc.exe
FIStudentUI.exe
STAHelper.exe
StudentSvc.exe
InsightInstaller.exe
InsightInstallerStudent.exe
InsightInstallerTeacher.exe
InsightSetup.msi
FORENSIC EVIDENCE
Disk artifacts
- File
- C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Student\FIStudentSvc.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student Windows service
- OS
- Windows
- File
- C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Student\FIStudentAgent.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student agent
- OS
- Windows
- File
- C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Student\FIStudentUI.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student UI host
- OS
- Windows
- File
- C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Student\STAHelper.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student helper executable
- OS
- Windows
- File
- C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Teacher\STAHelper.exe
- Description
- Faronics Insight Teacher helper executable
- OS
- Windows
FORENSIC EVIDENCE
Event log artifacts
- EventID
- 7045
- ProviderName
- Service Control Manager
- LogFile
- System.evtx
- ServiceName
- FIStudentSvc
- ImagePath
- "C:\Program Files\Faronics\Insight Student\FIStudentSvc.exe"
- Description
- Service installation event for Insight Student.
FORENSIC EVIDENCE
Registry artifacts
- Path
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Faronics
- Description
- Top-level Faronics product registry hive (shared with other Faronics products)
- Path
- HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FIStudentSvc
- Description
- Faronics Insight Student Windows service registration
FORENSIC EVIDENCE
Network artifacts
- Description
- Faronics Insight documentation, support, and update infrastructure
- Domains
- faronics.com
- www.faronics.com
- support.faronics.com
- docs.faronics.com
- Ports
- 443
- Description
- Insight Connector intermediary host. The Connector hostname/IP is administrator-supplied (no fixed vendor domain) — hunt on TCP/1313 and TCP/8080 to/from on-prem Connector hosts and pair with the FIStudentSvc / FIStudentAgent / FIStudentUI / STAHelper process artifacts above. Default Teacher / Student communication ports are listed by Faronics in the Insight Quick Install Guide.
- Domains
- user_managed
- Ports
- 1313
- 8080
Detections
- Sigma
- https://github.com/magicsword-io/LOLRMM/blob/main/detections/sigma/faronics_insight_files_sigma.yml
- Description
- Detects potential files activity of Faronics Insight RMM tool
- Sigma
- https://github.com/magicsword-io/LOLRMM/blob/main/detections/sigma/faronics_insight_network_sigma.yml
- Description
- Detects potential network activity of Faronics Insight RMM tool
- Sigma
- https://github.com/magicsword-io/LOLRMM/blob/main/detections/sigma/faronics_insight_processes_sigma.yml
- Description
- Detects potential processes activity of Faronics Insight RMM tool
- Sigma
- https://github.com/magicsword-io/LOLRMM/blob/main/detections/sigma/faronics_insight_registry_sigma.yml
- Description
- Detects potential registry activity of Faronics Insight RMM tool
References
- https://www.faronics.com/products/insight
- https://docs.faronics.com/faronics-insight-docs
- https://docs.faronics.com/faronics-insight-docs/installation-and-administration/installation/installing-on-windows/installing-the-insight-student
- https://docs.faronics.com/faronics-insight-docs/installation-and-administration/installation/installing-on-windows/installing-the-insight-student/command-line-installation
- https://www.faronics.com/assets/INS_Manual.pdf
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7c9436a2cb59e4de9dab8b0a72ce874ddae448dce47b5e07d95d221fffba3ba7
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/647a06a3ab62d848ed5f0e5853825dc8c97954b766ed8c710ec0a1608971a61b
Acknowledgements
- Person
- cbecks2
- Handle
- cbecks2
- Person
- Michael Haag
- Handle
- @MHaggis