RAT's are popular malware. They are many of them in the wild, Quasar[1] being one of them. The malware has been active for a long time and new campaigns come regularly back on stage. I spotted an interesting .bat file (Windows script) that attracted my attention because it is very well obfuscated. This file is a second stage that is downloaded and launched from a simple script:
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