Presumably it's to trick whitehats into tipping off the hackers that their code was being analysed and had been successfully deobfuscated, so the hackers knew t

Presumably it's to trick whitehats into tipping off the hackers that their code was being analysed and had been successfully deobfuscated, so the hackers knew they needed to move to a different attack. It's actually quite devious, like a reverse honeypot that the bad guys use against the good guys, exploiting their empathy.