This is so cute, it's really important for me to follow the instructions. That makes the virus an important file for me so I delete it following the first instruction.
Hate to be that guy but they don't pay you but the landlord. You are under obligation to pass it on. This can happen in form of a tip. You don't have to mark it as the spiders' tip, just make sure not to misappropriate anything.
I'm sorry to be the one who breaks this to you but linux is as binary as you can get. Ever wondered what 64 bit means? Bits are quite binary, that's kind of the definition
This is quite a cheap answer but maybe it's just pseudo code. We had exercises in university about pseudo code with examples that intentionally broke all syntax systems and conventions to show that not everything has to be executable that you write down in a theoretical computer science homework
Or capitalism