slapped together sloppily or crafted skillfully with care. Stuxnet was obviously the latter. It appeared to be a dense and well-orchestrated collection of data and commands that contained an enormous amount of functionality. What those functions were was still a mystery, but O’Murchu’s interest was immediately piqued.
Curious to see how much of it was necessary for the rootkit vs worm vs exploit of the Siemens micro controllers. Or was there red herring code and well to slow down the analysis? Guess once it’s been identified, you’re pretty much done, so they probably didn’t worry too much about speed of identification of stuxnet’s actual intent?
