Minus the lulz, what is the point of this? It seems there's some possibility of remotely disabling malware... and then some more possibility of malicious piggy

Minus the lulz, what is the point of this? It seems there's some possibility of remotely disabling malware... and then some more possibility of malicious piggy backing on already installed malware. It's an interesting point that malware is typically poorly developed, but not sure what the point of this research is.