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babmaint.exe

Babylon Ltd.

This is the maintenance task (EPUpdater) installed with a Babylon branded web browser toolbar (search adware). The scheduled task will check to make sure that the installed browser extensions for Chorme, Firefox and IE are installed as well as the home page and search provider are set to the Babylon partner site. The application babmaint.exe by Babylon has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This will display context specific advertisements in the browser as well as attempt to modify the browser's search provider.
Publisher:
Babylon Ltd.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
745f4e9fb40c0d37903d11e0b033c231

SHA-1:
73480a9442b0013bd1a81622ecbcec499bc4d6cc

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 10:56:11 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Babylon (M)
17.2.23.11

File size:
9.6 KB (9,808 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local settings\temp\{random}.tmp\latest\babmaint.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Babylon Ltd.

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
2/27/2012 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/9/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Babylon Ltd., O=Babylon Ltd., L=Or-Yehuda, S=Or-Yehuda, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
48C39FBA62460E24E169054FE518E0AF

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/5/2013 4:03:50 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x10D0

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 08, 00, 00, 33, C0, 66, 89, 85, F8, FD, FF, FF, 33, C9, 66, 89, 8D, F0, FB, FF, FF, 33, D2, 66, 89, 95, E8, F9, FF, FF, 8D, 85, F8, FD, FF, FF, 50, 6A, 00, 6A, 00, 6A, 1A, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 30, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 8D, F8, FD, FF, FF, 51, FF, 15, 38, 20, 40, 00, 68, 70, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 95, F8, FD, FF, FF, 52, FF, 15, 14, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 85, F8, FD, FF, FF, 50, E8, CC, FE, FF, FF, 83, C4, 04, 0F, B6, C8, 85, C9, 74, 68, 8D, 95, F8, FD, FF, FF, 52, FF, 15, 04, 20, 40, 00, 89, 85, E4, F9, FF...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1024 Bytes (1,024 bytes)

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