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maintenanceservice.exe

Firefox

Mozilla Foundation

The executable maintenanceservice.exe has been detected as malware by 37 anti-virus scanners. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Mozilla Maintenance Service”. Infected by an entry-point obscuring polymorphic file infector which will create a peer-to-peer botnet and receives URLs of additional files to download.
Publisher:
Mozilla Foundation

Product:
Firefox

Version:
32.0

MD5:
15d0c20ecd6c9065f81e71fbb8aac478

SHA-1:
ad630cb340b86ee3136c5a1b950efe831f36bde8

SHA-256:
feb679a50aa1220079e611dbcba7a5df269bb5ab7fb3d62afae20fca04cbdd03

Scanner detections:
37 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

Explanation:
The file is infected by a polymorphic file infector virus.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 12:20:12 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
856

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.AP.Gen
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
2014.10.02

Avira AntiVirus
W32/Sality.AG
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:Kukacka
140929-0

AVG
Win32/Sality
2014.0.4025

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.14102

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.1375

Bkav FE
W32.Sality.PE
1.3.0.4959

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.Gen
19681

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.21
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
14.10.02

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
11.2014-02-10_5

G Data
Win32.Sality
14.10.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Virus.Win32.Sality
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.183.13550

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.494

McAfee
W32/Sality.gen.z
5600.6990

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.185.1828.0

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
15.0.0.825

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.yusp
0.28.2.62440

Norman
Sality.ZHB
11.20141002

nProtect
Virus/W32.Sality.D
14.10.02.01

Panda Antivirus
W32/Sality.AA
14.10.02.08

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM19.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
10.14.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Win32.KUKU.kt!1591113
23.00.65.14930

Sophos
Mal/Sality-D
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.0.11209

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.RL
7.2.275

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.RL
10.465.02

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakb
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
33120

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.N
2011.4.7.4223

Zillya! Antivirus
Virus.Sality.Win32.20
2.0.0.1940

File size:
179.5 KB (183,808 bytes)

Product version:
32.0

Copyright:
License: MPL 2

Trademarks:
Mozilla

Original file name:
maintenanceservice.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\mozilla maintenance service\maintenanceservice.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/18/2014 10:51:07 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:NmN6vUT+nCRNeV/eYUTrpqznbECimepB5PFNdRjZa8UFVFIF7C3oUSwJCV1ssroD:8NKUT8CRG/eYUozEmaPFt1a8Uap9wQ9A

Entry address:
0x5140

Entry point:
60, 3B, C3, FE, CB, B2, 98, 8D, 3D, FE, 95, C3, DF, BF, D1, BC, B6, 8E, 4B, BF, 4A, 9D, EB, 51, 1B, ED, 8D, 15, AF, 10, 58, 0D, 88, C7, 89, FF, 8B, C7, 80, FB, 18, 84, CE, 8D, 2D, EB, E3, 7F, 9B, BB, 96, A7, 17, 9C, F6, C7, 25, 03, C8, 87, F5, 84, D5, 8B, FD, F6, C2, 9F, 80, C1, 98, 88, F5, 6A, 00, 59, 0F, AF, F3, 0F, AF, F2, 0F, AF, FB, 86, E4, F2, 08, EA, 0D, 4C, BB, 65, 94, 0F, BF, FF, 80, C4, DF, 4B, 0F, BF, DF, F2, 29, D7, 8D, 35, 91, 3B, F5, FF, 81, D7, 00, AB, 9A, C6, 87, DB, 4B, 81, C6, 9D, 0B, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.2692

Code size:
65 KB (66,560 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Mozilla Maintenance Service

Service name:
MozillaMaintenance

Description:
The Mozilla Maintenance Service ensures that you have the latest and most secure version of Mozilla Firefox on your computer. Keeping Firefox up to date is very important for your online security, and

Type:
Win32OwnProcess


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