shipup is classified as adware or a potentially-unwanted program associated with intrusive advertising or bundling. It has one or more associated MITRE ATT&CK technique references (linked on this page) that document the behaviors observed for it. We have not yet published a hand-verified detailed profile for this family; the MITRE references below are the authoritative source for its documented techniques.
Threat reports may refer to this family under multiple names:
This family has been observed using the following ATT&CK techniques: T1176 T1112
These YARA and Sigma rules are auto-generated based on the family name and aliases. They must be heavily tuned before deployment in a production environment.
rule MALWARE_WIN_SHIPUP {
meta:
description = "Detects Shipup (adware)"
author = "SystemHelpdesk Boilerplate Generator"
date = "2026-07-06"
strings:
$s1 = "shipup" ascii wide nocase
$s2 = "pup.shipup" ascii wide nocase
$s3 = "adware.shipup" ascii wide nocase
$s4 = "win32/shipup" ascii wide nocase
$s5 = "browsermodifier.shipup" ascii wide nocase
condition:
uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and any of them
}title: Suspicious Shipup Activity
id: c43f27cf442ded8dbe1323f834caac8c
status: experimental
description: Detects generic indicators of the shipup malware family.
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection:
Image|endswith:
- '\cmd.exe'
- '\powershell.exe'
CommandLine|contains:
- "*shipup*"
- "*pup.shipup*"
- "*adware.shipup*"
- "*win32/shipup*"
- "*browsermodifier.shipup*"
condition: selection
level: mediumRefer to the linked MITRE ATT&CK technique pages, which document the behaviors associated with this family.
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Get this profile as JSON: https://jordanricky1604-ship-it.github.io/malware-families-catalog/api/shipup.json
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