What is g4.exe?

g4.exe is part of Acrobat Distiller for Windows and developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. according to the g4.exe version information.

g4.exe's description is "Acrobat Distiller"

g4.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected g4.exe.

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VirusTotal report

35 of the 66 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the g4.exe file. That's a 53% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Acronis	suspicious
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.31858059
AhnLab-V3	Trojan/Win32.Agent.R262528
Alibaba	Trojan:Win32/Kryptik.753762fc
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.31858059
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D1E61D8B
Avast	Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG	Win32:Trojan-gen
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.31858059
Comodo	Malware@#1v2ys1umw8lot
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.1b3de2
Cyren	W32/Trojan.VWTO-1204
DrWeb	Trojan.Siggen8.22726
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.31858059 (B)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Kryptik.GRRI
FireEye	Generic.mg.67fb584ba8bf92cd
Fortinet	W32/Kryptik.GRRI!tr
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.31858059
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.Crypt
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 0054b5e91 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 0054b5e91 )
Malwarebytes	Trojan.Crypt
McAfee	RDN/Generic.grp
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.MultiPlug.jh
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Tiggre!plock
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.31858059
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Formbook.fovqgd
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM10.2.48F7.Malware.Gen
Rising	Malware.Heuristic.MLite(100%) (AI-LITE:zPMzNY6y/OeadEVtNQVeLw)
SentinelOne	DFI - Malicious PE
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Trapmine	suspicious.low.ml.score

Sandbox Report

The following information was gathered by executing the file inside Cuckoo Sandbox.

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "dwmapi.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\uxtheme.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1583520784.328125,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\15250f3f4f3e4d4e459c9eb23254e1be8c0288008ab5e3453b28aae4b1506495.bin",
        "process_name": "15250f3f4f3e4d4e459c9eb23254e1be8c0288008ab5e3453b28aae4b1506495.bin",
        "pid": 2436,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "dwmapi.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\uxtheme.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1583520784.65625,
        "ppid": 2736
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Checks if process is being debugged by a debugger",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 0,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "last_error": 0,
                    "nt_status": -1073741515,
                    "api": "IsDebuggerPresent",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {},
                    "time": 1583520784.76525,
                    "tid": 2124,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2436,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 28
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "checks_debugger"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "C:\\Users\\Good Gold\\Desktop\\forth_test\\Release\\forth_test.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.910962329387649,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00036200",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00001000",
                    "entropy": 7.910962329387649,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0003600e"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.3517465475223396,
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Overall entropy of this PE file is high"
            }
        ],
        "references": [
            "http:\/\/www.forensickb.com\/2013\/03\/file-entropy-explained.html",
            "http:\/\/virii.es\/U\/Using%20Entropy%20Analysis%20to%20Find%20Encrypted%20and%20Packed%20Malware.pdf"
        ],
        "name": "packer_entropy"
    }
]

Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

{
    "tls": [],
    "udp": [
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 546,
            "time": 3.1415460109710693,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.18779993057251,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.050442934036255,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.0630481243133545,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.0942540168762207,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5657899379730225,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.08438491821289062,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.5786170959472656,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0933020114898682,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.143263101577759,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "4bd78c96cb73a3e82d1448355a43f259d1401ee796883f607a0e17a082a5c484",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "d403369aebc5fa2ec111adf3680cd127fac1f9bcc67a84c5bcb15cf757c3ad8a",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

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g4.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove g4.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the g4.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that g4.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.

   
3. When the scan is finished, locate g4.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the g4.exe file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate g4.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   c:\downloads\g4.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the g4.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If g4.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If g4.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If g4.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
8. Restart your computer.
9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that g4.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

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