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Also fingerprints will only stop the lowest level of attackers. You can easily change binaries in a way the fingerprint is changed but the functionality remains the same. Reorder functions, add some garbage data, etc.

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That makes sense. So given that the attacker is technically sophisticated in this case, what are the tangible benefits of publishing the fingerprints?

I guess one benefit might be to push the development of new detection techniques to detect the underlying implementation of these tools.

The biggest advantage is that it would allow orgs to audit all applications that have been fingerprinted within their org and see if they might have been attacked as well.

Some of the fingerprints are easily gotten around by fudging the binaries a bit. Others, like snort rules, look at things like network traffic that might not always be so easily disguised.

Fingerprints are definitely not the only way to know if a binary has been tampered with.

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