It would probably work in Adobe Reader. Surprisingly, it works in Firefox built-in PDF viewer, which has iffy compatibility with some more complex PDFs, but it might not work in the very different iOS build of this browser.
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This did not work on my iPhone. Instead there’s just an empty white box in the upper left-hand corner of the page.
That’s probably a good thing. Why on earth should a pdf file be able to do something like this? Just seems like another potential attack surface.
Which PDF reader were you using?
It’s the built-in PDF reader as part of the browser. I’m not aware that it has any name.
It would probably work in Adobe Reader. Surprisingly, it works in Firefox built-in PDF viewer, which has iffy compatibility with some more complex PDFs, but it might not work in the very different iOS build of this browser.
This dude also got Doom to run in a PDF FYI. Pretty insane level of scripting support for a supposedly static document format.
Which is why I open unknown source PDFs in a VM :)
That’s impressive.
Wow
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