HIDE-FILES-IN-IMAGES

HOW TO HIDE A FILE BEHIND AN IMAGE

Hiding a file in an image file is called ‘Steganography’ . It’s a technique in which we can exchange data across the world over internet without using any encryption or decryption method.

What happens actually is we just bind the file (we want to send) with an image file. The actual file becomes hidden within an image file and hence becomes more protected. The image file functions normally as it should(as image).

Even if someone snoop into our network and gets his/her hands on over that image, he/she just can’t unbind the actual file hidden within that image until unless he/she knows the exact trick.

Let me show you how to do this in Two Parts:

In Part 1 I will show you how you can Hide the Files.

In Part 2 I will show you how you can Access the hidden Files.

Follow the steps below carefully.

PART 1: Hiding the File

  1. Create a new folder anywhere in your system. For example a folder named “test” in drive D
  2. Select all files you want to hide and get them zipped using WinZip or WinRar. Let this file be called
    ‘hide.rar’.
  3. Select an image file like ‘ppp.jpg’ in which you want to hide your ‘hide.rar’.
  4. Place both “ppp.jpg” and “hide.rar” into the “test” folder you created in drive D.
  5. Open command prompt (press ‘Window+R’, type “CMD” & press ‘Enter’ key). Command Prompt window will be opened.
  6. In Command Prompt window, navigate to the folder where you placed both ‘ppp.jpg’ & ‘womb.rar’ files (Just type “cd folder-path” in this case: “cd D:\test” in Command Prompt).
  7. Type following command very carefully:
    copy /b ppp.jpg+hide.rar ppp.jpg.
  8. Now you copied “hide.rar” into the image, so go to the folder “test” and delete “hide.rar” so that the folder will have only one file-the “ppp.jpg” image.
  9. Well done! You just successfully hide your sensitive files behind an image. If anyone opens the “test” folder will only see the image that acts as any other image & if they open it (by Double Clicking) a normal image will be opened. they will not see your hidden files behind that image.

PART 2: Accessing the Files

Realize that ‘ppp.jpg’ is a JPEG extension file. Hence It’ll work like any other JPEG image file. But your data ‘hide.rar’ is still hidden within it.

If you want to access your hidden files, you need to extract them from the image.

Two methods can be used to extract your hidden files:

Method 1:

  • Simply right-click on “ppp.jpg” and select “Open With Winrar”.
  • You will see all your files there.
  • Just Click on “Extract To” select a folder where all files will be extracted.
  • That`s all You will find all the files extracted.

Method 2:

  • Change the extension from ‘ppp.jpg’ to ‘ppp.rar’.
  • Then, double-click to open it.
  • Now You can see ‘hide.rar’ zipped file there. Just extract the files using the steps in method 1 and you will find all your files.

ENJOY!!!