Disguising malware as a image

Hey everyone! I recently made a program called "Van Gonography" which you can find the code of right here: https://github.com/JoshuaKasa/van-gonography

This basically hides and extracts entire files inside images (you can find more informations on how it works in the repo), the problem is that you actually need to have the code to decode it for getting the original file back.

I had an idea tho, about making a new mode for the program called disguise. My idea was: - Instead of hiding the file inside the image we'll hide the image inside the file, by getting a python program and a image as input and then converting the python program to .exe and set the icon as the initial image. - Then setting a custom code inside the initial python program (before converting it to .exe) which declares a custom string variable called "VANGONOGRAPHY_IMAGE_BITEDATA" with inside the binary data of the image and a cmd command or opening it. - This means that whenever the user runs the disguised program, the image will show up but the program will be running as a background process (pyinstaller for that).

Does someone have any better idea for how I could do it? You can also try it yourself and make a pull request! That'd be highly appreciated!

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