Needs a Chromium-based browser.
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Well now that’s amazing, isn’t it?
This kind of makes me question what kind of viruses could reside in a .pdf file. Luckily I use firefox haha.
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The JavaScript engine in the PDF viewer is heavily sandboxed - but the more complex a tool is, the more likely bugs become.
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A lot and PDF renders are full of bugs and quirks.
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A virus waiting to happen. lol
Don’t have Acrobat reader; open PDFs in my browser and has worked for me so far so when I acquired my new PC a few years ago, I never installed Acrobat Reader. Now I’m glad I have not. lol
This runs in the browser, not in Adobe Reader.
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Impressive.
I wasn’t aware that the PDF standard allows embedding JS, but of course it had to happen.
Its been around for a long while 
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There’s also one running on a toothbrush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO-Are8053g
The most bizarre I’ve seen was a pregnancy test as target: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NTJSfUWDE
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