Malware

Adups

Adups is Android surveillance-related software associated with unauthorized collection and transmission of sensitive user data from mobile devices. Reported behavior includes transmitting call logs, full SMS message contents, and contact lists from affected devices, indicating a strong data-harvesting and exfiltration profile focused on personal communications and address-book information. The observed functionality aligns with mobile spyware behavior because it gathers private device data without legitimate user expectation and sends it off-device.

Adups targets the Android platform and operates in a post-installation surveillance role on compromised or affected handsets. Its documented capabilities center on collection and exfiltration of communications metadata and content rather than destructive activity, ransomware, or overt credential theft. The available facts support classification as a mobile spyware family or component with emphasis on privacy-invasive monitoring of users. Information about specific delivery vectors, persistence mechanisms, privilege escalation, or threat-actor attribution is currently not available from the supplied facts.

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9 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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Oct 21, 2021

Capture SMS Messages, Technique T1412 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile spyware/adware component that exfiltrated the full contents of SMS messages.

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Jul 8, 2020

Access Call Log, Technique T1433 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile spyware/adware component described here as transmitting victims' call logs.

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Jan 18, 2018

Protected User Data: Contact List, Sub-technique T1636.003 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile malware/software component observed transmitting victims' contact lists.

mitre attack websiteNews

Jan 18, 2018

Protected User Data: SMS Messages, Sub-technique T1636.004 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile malware/software component that transmitted the full contents of text messages.

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Recent activity

9 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

9 SOURCESView more in app

mitre attack websiteNews

Oct 21, 2021

Capture SMS Messages, Technique T1412 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile spyware/adware component that exfiltrated the full contents of SMS messages.

mitre attack websiteNews

Jul 8, 2020

Access Call Log, Technique T1433 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile spyware/adware component described here as transmitting victims' call logs.

mitre attack websiteNews

Jan 18, 2018

Protected User Data: Contact List, Sub-technique T1636.003 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile malware/software component observed transmitting victims' contact lists.

mitre attack websiteNews

Jan 18, 2018

Protected User Data: SMS Messages, Sub-technique T1636.004 - Mobile | MITRE ATT&CK®

Mobile malware/software component that transmitted the full contents of text messages.

+5 more in the timeline

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Threat actor attribution

Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.

Exploited vulnerabilities

CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.

Detection signatures

YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.

Researcher chatter

Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.