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Mozilla Corporation

The executable uninstall.exe, “Mozilla Maintenance Service Installer” has been detected as malware by 37 anti-virus scanners. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program Mozilla Maintenance Service by Mozilla. 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 Corporation

Product:
Firefox

Description:
Mozilla Maintenance Service Installer

Version:
28.0

MD5:
fef4b40ccccb483dfee23bc932a35ee3

SHA-1:
f5e21f58a281aa0af734ed2b194abb3dec09ccef

SHA-256:
fe04d1311f029da0ae4d2c6cb13d05adf4e6f3c23ae1d91d9511f19bf9ce115c

Scanner detections:
37 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

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

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 11:58:53 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
5831904

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.BL
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
2014.11.24

Avira AntiVirus
W32/Sality.AT
7.11.30.172

avast!
SaliCode
141119-1

AVG
Win32/Sality
2014.0.4189

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.141124

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.1640

Bkav FE
W32.Sality.PE
1.3.0.4959

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.Gen
20178

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.22
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
9.0.0.4570

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
11.2014-24-11_2

G Data
Win32.Sality
14.11.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Virus.Win32.Sality
t3scan.1.8.3.0

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.185.14113

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.543

McAfee
W32/Sality.gen.z
5600.6937

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.189.531.0

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
15.0.0.984

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.beygb
0.28.6.63474

Norman
Sality.ZHB
11.20141124

nProtect
Virus/W32.Sality.D
14.11.21.01

Panda Antivirus
W32/Sality.AA
14.11.24.03

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM19.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
11.14.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Win32.KUKU.kt!1591113
23.00.65.141122

Sophos
Mal/Sality-D
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.0.11295

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.RL
7.2.328

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.RL
10.465.24

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakc
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
35010

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.N
2011.4.7.4223

Zillya! Antivirus
Virus.Sality.Win32.20
2.0.0.1991

File size:
175.7 KB (179,940 bytes)

Product version:
28.0

Copyright:
Mozilla Corporation

Trademarks:
Firefox is a Trademark of The Mozilla Foundation.

Original file name:
maintenanceservice_installer.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/10/2010 2:19:38 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:j3szWOI5EL50jl7yAUNRD5bJIGifsZ4gbBC5/mf7E329F9zl5+nFmp6IS9:QzSZLUjD5a1HSBC5/U7nnzKFmcj9

Entry address:
0x3415

Entry point:
74, 01, 46, 3B, C2, 86, CA, 80, C9, 7D, 08, DC, F7, C0, 07, 88, 97, 62, F7, C2, D7, C8, 12, 7A, EB, 07, 19, C0, 80, C5, 52, 0B, D6, E8, 84, 00, 00, 00, BB, D9, 51, 28, A6, 30, C2, FF, CF, C6, C6, 10, 85, FA, 0F, BF, C6, F2, F7, C5, 6D, B2, 13, 22, C6, C1, FE, 72, 06, 69, D0, 05, 55, 7C, F1, 8D, 05, 4C, D3, 00, 00, FF, CF, 30, E5, 2B, E8, 86, DD, 88, D3, F3, 81, ED, 10, 07, 00, 00, 2B, D2, 80, C7, E8, F6, C3, E5, 69, C9, D2, 9F, 4C, 95, 01, DD, 34, DD, 0F, AF, FF, C7, C0, C2, 3D, 67, 21, 81, C2, EB, F9, FF...
 
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Entropy:
6.7200

Code size:
26 KB (26,624 bytes)

Program Uninstaller
Program name:
Mozilla Maintenance Service

Display publisher:
Mozilla

Display version:
28.0

Uninstall string:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Maintenance Service\uninstall.exe"


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