Netskope Threat Labs

ShellBot

ATP Sandbox Adv. HeuristicsAV

This generic detection identifies shell based botnet agents that give operators command execution on compromised systems.

First seen
May 2022
Last seen
October 2026
Shellbot
Alert Name
Backdoor.Perl.Shellbot.B
Backdoor.Perl.Shellbot.BE
Backdoor.Perl.Shellbot.BF
Backdoor.Perl.Shellbot.F
Backdoor.Php.Shellbot.J
Linux.Backdoor.ShellBot
Linux.Trojan.ShellBot
Script-Perl.Backdoor.ShellBot
Script-Perl.Trojan.ShellBot
Script-Shell.Backdoor.ShellBot