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babmaint.exe

Visual Tools

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 Visual Tools 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:
Visual Tools  (signed and verified)

MD5:
f030fe8f07362e3c169f8ae1aeff0a06

SHA-1:
7a607d2b4ae6971ce6fbcd098c1c5e48aea978b3

SHA-256:
3118b9bcd23bc8a4f9ea75deb4683c8e1699f2fc614d023801a81d3c577fea9d

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:
4/24/2024 9:49:32 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Babylon (M)
17.3.4.15

File size:
10 KB (10,224 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\babsolution\shared\babmaint.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Visual Tools

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/10/2013 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/11/2015 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Visual Tools, O=Visual Tools, L=Belgrade, S=Serbia, C=RS

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

Serial number:
789958B0264F06055619270074AFA61F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2013 4:23:16 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, 38, 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, 44, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 8D, F8, FD, FF, FF, 51, FF, 15, 50, 20, 40, 00, 68, 80, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 95, F8, FD, FF, FF, 52, FF, 15, 30, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 85, F8, FD, FF, FF, 50, E8, CC, FE, FF, FF, 83, C4, 04, 0F, B6, C8, 85, C9, 0F, 84, 40, 01, 00, 00, 8D, 95, F8, FD, FF, FF, 52, FF, 15, 34, 20, 40, 00, 89...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1024 Bytes (1,024 bytes)

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