Recently a friend of mine sent me a piece of obfuscated JS that was in a phishing page that was being posted around his large gaming related website. Threw the

Recently a friend of mine sent me a piece of obfuscated JS that was in a phishing page that was being posted around his large gaming related website. Threw the JS into closure compiler with advanced optimisations and pretty print and out comes relatively unobfuscated code- it cleared up the series of horrible regexes anyway. The code injected a Java applet that downloaded a botnet virus. Decompiling the Java applet revealed the steamid of the guy orchestrating this. Added him on steam and had a great conversation in which he accidentally indirectly admitted the botnet was under his control. A fun use of a Sunday. The evidence was never sent to anyone, thinking nothing would come of it.