I thought it was a measured analysis, and it was nice to see disassembled and decompiled code. But the last bit is strange: 'Creating' phrases with hexadecimal numbers is not new. And in many cases such things have been noticed in different malicious applications.
Many applications do that for sanity checks, I don't think it's any kind of indication of malware. It's a common technique to have some "magic number" that you can recognize to make it less likely that a transfer of data has some kind of corruption [1]. The benefit of using a number like 0xdeadbeef over, say, 0x1857de89 is that you can tell at a glance if the first one is correct.
[1] Yes, one should use error codes and do this the real way. Not everyone does.