Rodex RMM

Rodex RMM is marketed at https://www.rodex.cc/ as a self-hostable Remote Monitoring & Management platform — the operator pays in cryptocurrency ($150-$650/mo recurring, $250-$2,200 first-month onboarding) and the vendor's provisioner installs a stack (Node.js + MongoDB + Go relay + Nginx + SSL) onto the operator's own VPS. The agent is a single Go binary (`RodexAgent.exe`, ~7.3 MB) which establishes a WebSocket back to the operator's relay for remote desktop (WebRTC GUI streaming), remote terminal (PowerShell / Bash / Zsh), CPU/RAM/disk/network monitoring, Windows Update orchestration, and arbitrary script execution. The marketing positions Rodex as a privacy-preserving alternative to cloud RMMs ("every byte of data stays on your server"), comparable in shape to RustDesk / Tactical RMM / NetLock RMM. **However**, the project profile is materially different from those legitimate self-hostable peers and tracks closer to the TrustConnect / fake-RMM-as-a-service pattern: - No public source code (RustDesk, Tactical RMM, NetLock are open-source on GitHub; Rodex is not). - No corporate identity disclosed — no leadership names, no LinkedIn presence, the only contact is `support@rodex.cc`. - The `rodex.cc` domain was registered 2026-03-12 (NameSilo privacy WHOIS, Cloudflare-fronted). - Cryptocurrency-only payment. - Every `RodexAgent.exe` sample observed on VirusTotal is **unsigned** (no Authenticode publisher cert), despite the PE version block claiming `Rodex RMM Suite` / `© 2024-2025 Rodex Technologies Inc.` — that company name is not verifiable in any registry. - In-the-wild RodexAgent.exe samples have antivirus detection ratios ranging 27/76 to 48/76, with several engines applying the `trojan.tedy/misc` label (Tedy is a known stealer family); one sample carries the label `PasswordStealer.Spyware.Stealer.DDS`. - Agent filenames observed in the wild include both random-name `C:\Windows\<6-9-char>.exe` drops (e.g. `airj5.exe`, `ccwojfhc.exe`, `n0y9ytr.exe`) and decoy installers impersonating real organisations (`PROSEGURAgent.exe`, `FundacinAdsisAgent.exe`, `Daleph-Install-Default.exe`, `SifemInstall.exe`, `AdobepluginD3238-Install-Default.exe`, `AccessWinRAR.exe`, `InvitationCard.exe`) — all carrying the same `RodexAgent.exe` PE version-block strings underneath. Catalogued here as **Category: RAT** (same precedent as `trustconnect.yaml`) — not because the product is necessarily intended as malware, but because the in-the-wild distribution pattern is indistinguishable from RAT-as-a-service and defenders matching `RodexAgent.exe` will encounter unsigned binaries with malware-class filenames rather than vendor-signed RMM agents.