Using Steghide for Hiding and Extracting Data

Cyber Tool Guardian
OSINT Team
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4 min readOct 14, 2023

What is Steghide?

A steganography program that helps in hiding data in various kind of formats of images, audio files. In this process color-respectively sample-frequencies are not changed, making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.

Steghide plays a important role in modern attacks in several ways. Most of the experts and attackers use steganography in malware which can be divided into two categories, concealing the actual malware contents and concealing the command and control communications (C2) channel.

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Installing of Steghide

First let us update.

sudo apt-get update

Now install Steghide using,

apt install steghide
steghide installation

Using Steghide

Visit the url, https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lpz23i0352zd59e/AACcBdmAZVidi_xHXia4qkS3a?dl=0 and download the images and extract the file.

Check the usage of steghide.

steghide --help

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