chris@strafpla.net on Nostr: I was wondering about that, too, but I don‘t think that‘s a very likely scenario ...

I was wondering about that, too, but I don‘t think that‘s a very likely scenario here.
Malware infected binaries presenting a wrong version number would be very easy to stumble upon by accident - and the code changes would be, too.
One does not put that much effort into injecting malware just to give it away like this.