Linux Running in a PDF (2025)

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

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

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

butwhy.gif

This is a low effort blogspam. (Twitterspam?)

Can we use it as an AI sandbox!

Post is new but the original PDF is from 2025:

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775

And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf