File scan report
Verdict Suspicious
Is this PDF document safe? Treat it as suspicious.
This PDF document was flagged by one major antivirus engine as a QR-code phishing lure; it is rarely seen, and other engines did not flag it.
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Why Suspicious? One antivirus engine (Fortinet) flags it as phishing; nothing else confirms it.
Limited evidence
Do not scan any QR code in this PDF or enter credentials on pages it leads to. Verify any request it makes through the sender's official channels.
What to do now5 steps
This PDF may be a phishing lure. Opening it by itself is unlikely to infect your device; the risk is the links inside it.
What to do
Don't click links or buttons in this PDF, and don't enter a password on any page it opens.
Check with the sender using a phone number or email address you already have, not the details in this PDF.
If you typed a password after opening it, change that password now and turn on two-step verification.
If you entered card or bank details, call your bank using the number on your card.
If you already opened it
Stop using it, run a full scan with your antivirus and watch for unexpected behavior or security alerts.
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Antivirus results
1 of 63 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 62
- No result 12
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 5mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
3 points against it and 2 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Fortinet detects this PDF document as a QR-code phishing document, and only 1 of the 63 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it. The file was submitted by one source, first seen on May 25, 2026. Opening it showed only the PDF viewer and no network activity, but QR-code lures act when scanned with a phone, so treat any QR code inside with caution.
One major antivirus engine, Fortinet, labels this PDF document as a QR-code phishing lure, and the broader threat label for the file also points to phishing. None of the other 74 engines flagged it, so the evidence is limited. The file is rare, with one submitter and no reference-database or public sample-feed listings. The sandbox only showed the PDF opening in Adobe Reader with no network contacts, which is expected for a document whose lure relies on scanning a QR code with a phone. Without a benign anchor that could explain away the phishing label, caution is warranted.
What We Detected
1 of the 63 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this PDF document. The detection comes from Fortinet, a major antivirus engine, which labels it as a QR-code phishing PDF. The file was first seen on May 25, 2026 and has been submitted by only one source. No public malware database or community rule matched it.
Threat Behavior
When opened in the sandbox, the document only launched the Adobe Reader viewer. It made no network contacts and did not inject into other processes. QR-code phishing documents usually show a code that leads to a fake login page when scanned with a phone, so desktop runtime monitoring would not reveal that step. No complete reputation check of linked hosts is available.
What To Do Now
Do not scan any QR code in this document or enter credentials on pages it leads to. If it claims to come from an organisation you deal with, confirm the request through that organisation's official website or a known phone number.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- 17 other major antivirus engines and 62 engines in total reported nothing, so the single phishing label could be a false positive.
- The sandbox run only showed the PDF opening in Acrobat Reader with no network contacts, but a QR-code lure needs a phone scan to act, so this does not clear it.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 74 of the 63 antivirus engines that checked it did not flag it
- The sandbox recorded no network contacts and no process injection
- A major antivirus engine (Fortinet) detects it as a QR-code phishing document
- The file's overall threat label points to phishing
- Rarely seen: a single submitter and a single submission
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 1spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 11filesystem & mutex artifacts
Recorded behavior
What happened in the test
Grouped by step. The order is not a timeline.
- 1
Input file
The submitted object
- Evidence 1 of 4: FileSeen in the test run
PDF document
7b7606a6b4d8d5183f08778241b133a038cdaa6fe8b8a4d1e18faed9d603707b
Uploaded file
- 1
Processes
What ran
- Evidence 2 of 4: ProcessSeen in the test run
RdrCEF.exe
c:\program files (x86)\adobe\acrobat reader dc\reader\acrocef_1\RdrCEF.exe --backgroundcolor=16514043
Test run
- 2
Files
Created or changed
- Evidence 3 of 4: Written fileSeen in the test run
SOPHIA.json
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Reader\SOPHIA.json
Test run - Evidence 4 of 4: Written fileSeen in the test run
TESTING
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Reader\Files\TESTING
Test run - +1 more recorded observation
4 facts from the test run. See the full activity list.
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Observed activity
Processes started
1Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
RdrCEF.exec:\program files (x86)\adobe\acrobat reader dc\reader\acrocef_1\RdrCEF.exe --backgroundcolor=16514043
Files
11Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Reader\SOPHIA.json - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Reader\Files\TESTING - Written
Local\07F84778 - Written
Local\07C14DF8 - Written
Local\07F85AE0 - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\UserCache.bin
Show all 11 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\ConnectorIcons\icon-260524234157Z-282.bmp - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\A91g9gw17_1rck89r_240.tmp - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\A91wn79ch_1rck89s_240.tmp - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Reader\Files\DC_READER_LAUNCH_CARD - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Reader\Files\ACROBAT_READER_MASTER_SURFACEID
Registry and auto-start
1Settings the file changed, including ways to start again after a restart.
- Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Acrobatviewercpp473
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 3 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 3 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- 61ba57adc66672639bfb…0b68dcNot checkedno saved verdict
- 278165575687daf6392e…e90a09Not checkedno saved verdict
- bdee182473d254ab5424…9a28d3Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
1 of the 63 antivirus engines that checked it flags it.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 1
- Fortinet (major engine)PDF/Phishing.QRC!tr
File fingerprint
- File name
- PDF document
- Format
- Size
- 87.1 kB
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Last analyzed
- May 25, 2026, 12:38 PM UTC
- SHA-256
7b7606a6b4d8d5183f08778241b133a038cdaa6fe8b8a4d1e18faed9d603707b- SHA-1
376158e679ff8974671b26646a5bace9890e977f- MD5
d4b14b73f16764f88648813261b4a61e
First scanned Updated
Antivirus consensus
1 of 63 engines flagged this file
12 of the 75 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
- Tier-118 engines1flagged
- Tier-233 engines0flagged
- Low-trust12 engines0flagged
View all 75 engine results
- FortinetMalicious: PDF/Phishing.QRC!tr
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaNo result
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceClean
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctNo result
- DrWebClean
- ElasticNo result
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootNo result
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
How widely this file has been seen
Rarely uploaded, and first seen more than two weeks ago. Often niche legitimate software or internal tooling; not a strong malware signal on its own.
Chapter 05
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