How to use StegCracker to discover hidden data within malicious files

About StegCracker

StegCracker is a powerful malicious file analysis tool developed based on Python. It can help researchers use steganography brute-force capabilities to discover hidden data within malicious files.

Python 3.6+

Steghide library

Dependency component installation

The current version of StegCracker requires the use of the Steghide library and Python 3.6+ environment. The Steghide library can be installed directly using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install steghide -y

Tool download

Since this tool is developed based on Python 3.6, we first need to install and configure the Python 3.6+ environment on the local device.

Source code installation

Next, researchers can directly use the following command to clone the source code of this project to their local machine:

git clone https://github.com/Paradoxis/StegCracker.git

Then switch to the project directory and run the tool installation script:

cd StegCracker

python3 setup.py

PyPI installation

$ pip3 install stegcracker

Docker Installation

The following commands can directly pull the latest version of the StegCracker image:

$ docker pull paradoxis/stegcracker

or directly click [Here】Access StegCracker's Docker image.

Tool Update

To update StegCracker, you can directly execute the update by adding the -U option to the tool installation command:

$ pip3 install stegcracker -U --force-reinstall

Tool Usage

The use of StegCracker is very simple. Just pass a file (the first parameter) to it through the command arguments, and then pass the path to the password dictionary file to it (the second parameter), and the tool can help us complete the hidden data discovery task. It should be noted that if the path to the dictionary file is not specified, the tool will try to use the built-in rockyou.txt as the dictionary file (the dictionary built into Kali Linux). If you are using a different Linux distribution system, you can click [here] to download the rockyou.txt dictionary file yourself.

Tool Execution Command

$ stegcracker <file> [<wordlist>]

If you are using Docker, the command is as follows:

$ docker run -v $(pwd)/data/:/data -it paradoxis/stegcracker example.jpg

Tool Operation Demonstration

License Agreement

The development and release of this project follow the MIT Open Source License Agreement.

Project Address

StegCracker：【GitHub Gateway】

Reference Materials

https://blog.paradoxis.nl/stegcracker-2-released-f03771ba855b
https://hub.docker.com/r/paradoxis/stegcracker
https://github.com/RickdeJager/stegseek
https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/raw/master/Passwords/Leaked-Databases/rockyou.txt.tar.gz
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332641/how-to-install-python-3-6

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