Way to disguise/embed a ".exe" or a ".py" file?

Hi Everyone, this is my first post on this subreddit, so apologies if I am breaking some rule. I am taking a software and network security course in my masters. As part of an assignment we were to create an exploit, I wrote the exploit in python and created an exe file out of it. Now I have mainly 2 questions. 1) Is there a way to embed/disguise this exe file as something else like a pdf or a word document or something of similar sorts. 2) In case the first one doesn't work, is there a way to auto execute this exe file once the user downloads it without having them explicity run it.

Any help would be appreciated

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