Great write up. I'm very curious whether this was a legitimate app which was unreasonably paranoid, or if it turns out he was debugging it in the first place because it was accused of being malware.
Seems like a lot of effort to go to otherwise
Seems like a lot of effort to go to otherwise
There were some interesting things in the binary still. At one point I was trying to figure out why I was looking at code that looked like it was downloading a Windows .iso; turns out it was, and it was used for a network speed test widget!
CoolWidgets.app: Your heft tests the network speed.
BillGates.iso: Oh my god.
And of course, you can't really know if a loop is infinite because of the halting problem.