This happens a fair few times with small software companies who fail to realise their dream that their software is either not liked or wanted as they had hoped, so a few (with no morels) in an effort to make some extra cash decide to screw over any real potential customers/users by packaging it with as much kick back malware as possible.
There is a great video (although a bit old) that covers the business models of such operations here for anyone that has time to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2mdUcOXW6I
Biting the hand that feeds IT
