> That type of obfuscation is pretty common for PHP malware. The only thing notable here is that the original, human-written source is Go. Yes, I can attest th

> That type of obfuscation is pretty common for PHP malware. The only thing notable here is that the original, human-written source is Go. Yes, I can attest that. I worked for a company with a team of malware researchers and this was a common obfuscation technique. I would not say the use of Go is novel either. I have reviewed several pieces of malicious code and exploits written in Go in the last five years or so.