Is pdf-sprint.com safe?
http://pdf-sprint.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (61 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
pdf-sprint.com pushes a Windows installer that multiple security engines flag as malicious
pdf-sprint.com presents itself as a free PDF utility, but the page's main action is a download link for PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE, a Windows executable. That file and the site around it carry 6 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across 93 scanning engines, and five independent antivirus families returned adverse results. An interactive sandbox analysis of the download path also recorded malicious activity. With the domain only 105 days old and downloadable software being pushed to visitors, the community should treat this as a malware distribution page, not a safe tool download.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 8/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive5 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- ModerateOne public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Malicious activity - Interactive analysis"
- MinorThe page directs visitors to a Windows executable named PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE rather than a browser-based or documented tool.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the URL.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
pdf-sprint.com presents itself as a free PDF utility, but the page's main action is a download link for PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE, a Windows executable. That file and the site around it carry 6 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across 93 scanning engines, and five independent antivirus families returned adverse results. An interactive sandbox analysis of the download path also recorded malicious activity. With the domain only 105 days old and downloadable software being pushed to visitors, the community should treat this as a malware distribution page, not a safe tool download.
The download is the danger, not a background alarm
The page is built around a single commercial call to action: a prominent DOWNLOAD button and a direct link to PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE, as well as the domain name pdf-sprint.com itself. That is the file a visitor is being guided to run on a Windows machine, so the site's entire value proposition depends on the user installing the executable.
The saved scan evidence for this target is not a false positive from one scanner: 6 of 93 engines returned malicious detections and one returned suspicious, and five independent antivirus families produced adverse results, with BitDefender and CRDF named. Those results target the site and its associated files rather than one isolated artifact.
Independent sandbox research on the download path also observed malicious activity, adding behavioural evidence on top of the static detections. Running PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE on a normal home or work machine would put the user's files, accounts and network at risk of compromise.
A young domain, no reviewed operator details, and clean certificates are not reassurance
The registrable domain is only 105 days old, so there is no long track record of a legitimate software publisher behind this download. The page is also script-built, meaning its own contact details were not visible to the page reader and were not reviewed; the absence of visible ownership or a verifiable company is a gap rather than proof of harm, but on a page pushing an executable it increases the risk of dealing with an anonymous operator.
The supportive technical results do not change the picture. The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, but encryption only protects the transport of the page and a clean Safe Browsing snapshot does not clear the executable itself. The decisive facts remain the malicious file detections, the adverse antivirus families and the sandbox finding of malicious activity.
Why the score is 8
5 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
7/ 93
detectionsFresh result
7 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 6
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | malicious |
| BitDefenderMalicious | malware |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| G-DataMalicious | malware |
| SeclookupMalicious | malicious |
| VIPREMalicious | malware |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - Malicious
- BitDefender - malware - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- G-Data - malware - Malicious
- Seclookup - Malicious
- VIPRE - malware - Malicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiInformation Technology, Malicious
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
PDFSprint - fast PDF utility for Windows
- Meta description
PDFSprint is a fast Windows PDF utility for converting, combining, compressing, and finishing local PDF files.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
PDFSprint - fast PDF utility for Windows
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Malware & Deceptive Downloads
Service and business model
Downloader
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 016 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across 93 engines for the site and its associated files, with five independent antivirus families reporting adverse results including BitDefender and CRDF.
- 025 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- 03One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Malicious activity - Interactive analysis"
Web research findings
Independent findings for pdf-sprint.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- ANY.RUNopen
"Malicious activity - Interactive analysis"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainpdf-sprint.com
- Redirects topdf-sprint.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · static.cloudflareinsights.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 14, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 28, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
pdf-sprint.com was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for pdf-sprint.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pdf-sprint.com/
- 2200https://pdf-sprint.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
5 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. · The page directs visitors to a Windows executable named PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE rather than a browser-based or documented tool.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Malicious activity - Interactive analysis"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 7 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Oct 28, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result7 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 28, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
pdf-sprint.com pushes a Windows installer that multiple security engines flag as malicious
pdf-sprint.com presents itself as a free PDF utility, but the page's main action is a download link for PDFSPRINT-INSTALL-4.5.EXE, a Windows executable. That file and the site around it carry 6 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across 93 scanning engines, and five independent antivirus families returned adverse results. An interactive sandbox analysis of the download path also recorded malicious activity. With the domain only 105 days old and downloadable software being pushed to visitors, the community should treat this as a malware distribution page, not a safe tool download.
09 · Community
Community
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