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
Linux Running in a PDF (2025)
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Re: Linux Running in a PDF (2025)
#22Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible.
> Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible. Yes but at the same time we now have options... For example it's now totally possible to do the following: - intercept any PDF downloaded - send it to a sandboxed app before opening - open it from withing the sandbox - headlessly screenshot every page to images - pull the pictures (one per page) out of…
Or, you know, instead of burning tokens/trees we could use a well established project instead ;)
https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone
Re: Linux Running in a PDF (2025)
#23Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible.
PostSscript files came from the same company in the 80's -Adobe- and with GhostScript and zmachine.ps you can play Zork I-III, Calypso, Tristam Island and the rest of propietary Infocom text adventures on it with ease. What zmachine.ps does is to emulate the ZMachine VM in PostScript and display the output to stdout/console. And if it werent for the PS stack limitations for sure you could emulate Linux under Risc-V.…
PostScript is awesome - I still use it to do this day for hacking together Variable Data Printing projects, with the aid of GhostScript.