So it turns out it may not have actually contained a malicious virus, but was in fact a suite of penetration testing tools that have been sitting on my external drive for probably 6-7 years now unnoticed. I wound up getting ahold of a bunch of programs from a friend, and I guess that was one of them! Ah well, it's deleted now so whatever it was doesn't matter anymore.
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So it turns out it may not have actually contained a malicious virus, but was in fact a suite of penetration testing tools that have been sitting on my external drive for probably 6-7 years now unnoticed. I wound up getting ahold of a bunch of programs from a friend, and I guess that was one of them! Ah well, it's deleted now so whatever it was doesn't matter anymore.