42 School project. From the subject (also available in french):
Thanks to the Famine subject, you know what self-replicating programming means. You also know the subject difficulty to obtain a little "virus" useless in an updated system.
We are going to make this virus running method more complex bringing programming methods that you were not necessarily introduced to during your school years.
Your little Famine program is about to be upgraded. You will quickly understand that if you want to validate this project, you’re going to have to make radical changes in your source code. When Famine just needed you to discreetly patch a binary, Pestilence will require a way more discreet binary forcing you to apply a "simple" obfuscation strategy within your code... when we say simple, keep in mind this is a very subjective matter...