Steganography Tools For Beginners

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Stenography

Steganography is the technique of hiding secret data within an ordinary, non-secret, file or message in order to avoid detection, the secret data is then extracted at its destination.

Basic Tools

Strings

Strings command comes by default in linux and it is used to return string from a file.

It is mainly used to extract text from binary files. Sometines the password or crucial data is in the file itself and strings command can be easily used to reveal this data.

Example: `strings filename`

Hexdump & Hexedit

These are hexeditors which can be used to analyse and edit binary files.
Another useful hexeditor is bliss<

Exiftool

Exiftool is used to show the metadata of a file.
This tool may or maynote be there by default depending on which distro you use.

Example: `exif-tool filename`

StegHide

This tool is used to hide files and data in JPEG, BMP, WAV and AU files and it can also extract this data form these files.

Example: `steghide extract -sf filename`

It has many more options which you can look up by reading the man page.

Binwalk

Binwalk is a tool for searching other embedded files present in the target file.

Example: `binwalk filename`

Read its man page for more options/flags.

Additional Tools

Stegsolve

Stegsolve is a small java tool which is used for appliying colour filters on images and viewing images in diffrent color planes also sometines shift planes.

Source can be found here

Sonic-Visualiser

Soncic visulazier is a tool for analyizing audio files and can also reveal hidden messages in audio files

Source can be found here

Zsteg

This tool can detect hidden data in png, bmp files.

Source can be found here

Stegdetect

Stegdetect is an automated tool for detecting hidden content in images

Source can be found here

Stegoveritas

Yet another automated stegonaography tool.

Source can be found here

Bruteforcers

Stegcracker

Stegonography utility to uncover hidden data inside files by bruteforcing passwords using steghide

Source can be found here

fcrackzip

A bruteforcing tool to crack password protected zip files
man page here

Online Tools

dcode.fr

Its a website which has many decoders for lots of cyphers. This is a very useful site while solving stegonography challenges with lots of encoded text.

Cyberchef

It is similar to decode.fr but has a nice gui and features.

Steganography Tools For Beginners

Stenography

Basic Tools

Strings

Example: `strings filename`

Hexdump & Hexedit

Exiftool

Example: `exif-tool filename`

StegHide

Example: `steghide extract -sf filename`

Binwalk

Example: `binwalk filename`

Additional Tools

Stegsolve

Source can be found here

Sonic-Visualiser

Source can be found here

Zsteg

Source can be found here

Stegdetect

Source can be found here

Stegoveritas

Source can be found here

Bruteforcers

Stegcracker

Source can be found here

fcrackzip

Online Tools

dcode.fr

Cyberchef

CTF Sites for practice

Try Hack Me

Hack The Box

CTF Learn

Hack This Site

These were some basic tools which are used to solve steganography problems.

As a bonus you can also check out black-arch repository for more tools.

Steganography Tools For Beginners

Stenography

Basic Tools

Strings

Example: strings filename

Hexdump & Hexedit

Exiftool

Example: exif-tool filename

StegHide

Example: steghide extract -sf filename

Binwalk

Example: binwalk filename

Additional Tools

Stegsolve

Source can be found here

Sonic-Visualiser

Source can be found here

Zsteg

Source can be found here

Stegdetect

Source can be found here

Stegoveritas

Source can be found here

Bruteforcers

Stegcracker

Source can be found here

fcrackzip

Online Tools

dcode.fr

Cyberchef

CTF Sites for practice

Try Hack Me

Hack The Box

CTF Learn

Hack This Site

These were some basic tools which are used to solve steganography problems.

As a bonus you can also check out black-arch repository for more tools.

Example: `strings filename`

Example: `exif-tool filename`

Example: `steghide extract -sf filename`

Example: `binwalk filename`