Find the hidden information in this file.
Maybe this
or this
How does it work? Remember that each pixel can be represented with a combination of 3 bytes (rgb). We can take a few of those bytes out and put our text in there with only marginal deterioration in image quality.
Example: Download and install steghide
apt-get install steghide #not easy to do on kali
May be interesting to record what the image size is before and after.
steghide embed -cf picture.jpg -ef secret.txt
steghide extract -sf picture.jpg
steghide info received_file.wav
So, what might this be used for?
Steganography is NOT the same as cryptography. Cryptography scrambles the message so that it cannot be viewed, stego hides the existence of data. Can hide in file header fields, between sections of metadata. Can use images, sound, movies…