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I feel the use of 'backdoor' here is misleading.

The software described would usually be classified as an Advanced Persistent Threat [1] or Rootkit [2] Backdoor [3] usually refers to methods to sidestep authentication added by the vendor.

  1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat
  2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
  3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)