Steganography applications conceal information in other, seemingly innocent media. Steganographic results may masquerade as other file for data types, be concealed within various media, or even hidden in network traffic or disk space. We are only limited by our imagination in the many ways information and data can be exploited to conceal additional information.
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Information Hiding: Steganography and Digital Watermarking by Neil F. Johnson
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Guillermito classifications: (Ideas)
1. Adding data at the end of the carrier file (example: Camouflage, JpegX, SecurEngine for JPG, Safe&Quick Hide Files 2002, Steganography 1.50).
2. Inserting data in some junk or comment field in the header of the file structure (example: Invisible Secrets 2002 for JPG and PNG, Steganozorus for JPG).
3. Embedding data in the carrier byte stream, in a linear, sequential and fixed way (example: InPlainView, InThePicture, Invisible Secrets 2002 for BMP, ImageHide, JSteg).
4. Embedding data in the carrier byte stream, in a pseudo-random way depending on a password (CryptArkan, BMPSecrets, Steganos for BMP, TheThirdEye, JPHide).
5. Embedding data in the carrier byte stream, in a pseudo-random way depending on a password, and changing other bits of the carrier file to compensate for the modifications induced by the hidden data, to avoid modifying statistical properties of the carrier file (example: Outguess, F5).
Covert channels
File appending
Steganalysis
Watermarking
Word substitution
StegHide
Detecting Steganography: Stego Suite
Counter-Forensics:
Why Bother About BIOS Security? SANS InfoSec Whitepaper
PGP
TrueCrypt
Eraser
CCleaner
OTP Vernam cipher
Cipher Machine Downloads
Metasploit Framework (Antiforensics):
Timestomp
Slacker
Transmogrify
SAM juicer
Anti-Forensics Class