I don't know if this is pertinent at all, or if it will shed any light on the situation, but I caught my computer mysteriously downloading something from the same server; sb.l.google.com and managed to capture the entire thing in wireshark.
It's apparently something in GZip format, but I don't know how to transform the raw packet stream into something I can examine.
If I posted this, what output from wireshark would you want? A hexdump, raw, or something else?
I don't even use linux, I'm on Macintosh, so I apologize if I leave something unclear or mess up somewhere. I just found this thread by searching for "sb.l.google.com" trying to find out what the nature of this download is.
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