Image with DOS executable (COM, 0x8C-variant) embedded

Hi, so i was doing some unrelated investigations and thought i would run an image through a stego checker to see if there was any useful meta-data embedded.

During the scan stegoveritas detected the DOS executable (COM, 0x8C-variant) embedded. It's roughly 750kb, extracted from a 58kb image. I could find very little online regarding this exact query. A few years ago someone posted in r/dos on reddit with a similar finding but got no response.

The image came from a …

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