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Following @Artjom B. 's outline, I was able to decrypt the MySQL "junk" using the following code (python 3.12).

from hashlib import md5 
from Crypto.Cipher import DES3

class MySQLDES:
    def __init__(self, password):
        passbytes = password.encode() 
        key =  md5(passbytes).digest()          # 16 bytes 
        key += md5(key + passbytes).digest()    # extend to 32 bytes 
        key = DES3.adjust_key_parity(key[:24])  # take first 24
        self.cipher = DES3.new(
            key, 
            DES3.MODE_CBC, 
            iv=bytes.fromhex('00') * 8) 

 
    def decrypt(self, hexstr): 
        cipherbytes = bytes.fromhex(hexstr) 
        clearbytes = self.cipher.decrypt(cipherbytes[1:])
        clearbytes = clearbytes[:-clearbytes[-1]]
        
        return clearbytes.decode()

Usage:

des = MySQLDES('<password>')
des.decrypt('<hex string starting with FF>')

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