“Defend the Web” write-up (Beach — steganography analysis)
Steganography is a broadly utilized system that controls data to conceal their reality. The word steganography is gotten from the Greek words “stegos,” signifying “cover,” and “grafia,” meaning “writing,” characterizing it as “covered writing.” Steganography is one such pro-security development in which secret information is implanted in a cover. Steganography is an art and science of communicating in a manner that conceals the presence of communication. Even though Steganography furnishes excellent security, you can use it with Cryptography for better confidentiality and security.
Let’s take a look at the challenge and see what we can find.
In this example, we are presented with the image and a login form. Right-click on the image and download it to inspect further. Once you downloaded it, open it with a WordPad application and look for strings.
Here we found our first readable string “james”, take a note and look further.
