@whitequark The reverse engineer I was working with at the time had spent about a week trying to get it to do malware things to no avail - had server side checks including geofencing before the actual payload would run.
I bet him I could get it to work in three hours.
I lost the bet because I bought the cheapest shittiest laptop and it took several hours to get to a usable state out of the box.
The malware did malware things once windows was finished doing windows things, though.