Hackerman Stenography Challenge Solution!

This is quite a simple challenge but different from others in a way that the steno file was password protected.

I tried running Steghide & Stegosuite directly on the provided image file but nothing was found. In parallel i tried to check whether i can directly extract the data from the image file using steghide.

This confirmed that this file was password protected. On quick googling i found that these types of steno files can be bruteforced. The program which can do this for us can be found on the below link.

Paradoxis/StegCracker

Big shout out to this guy :))

On quickly providing rockyou file we have done with the challenge :))

All we need is to use that password with steghide in order to extract the file.

Let’s see what’s inside the text file.

So the text is base64 encoded. Let’s cat this file again and forward the output to Base64 decoder in Kali Linux.

We have got out flag :))

That’s all for this challenge.

Don’t forget to add claps :))

Thanks for reading :))