Linux Running in a PDF (2025) (linux.doompdf.dev)

by matthewsinclair • 22 comments • 85 points

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[−] robinsonb5 46d ago

Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible.

[−] mapt 42d ago

What reasonably competent PDF-reader applications are not competent enough be Turing-complete?

[−] someprick 42d ago

Just for what it's worth… VirusTotal flags that as possibly containing a Trojan.

Perhaps that's due to the nature of the method of execution? But I wouldn't run that…

edit: +possibly

[−] RajT88 42d ago

butwhy.gif

[−] karel-3d 42d ago

This is a low effort blogspam. (Twitterspam?)

[−] cyanydeez 42d ago

Can we use it as an AI sandbox!

[−] eslaught 42d ago

Post is new but the original PDF is from 2025:

[−] matthewsinclair 46d ago