Hide information in image files using WxHexEditor

David Artykov
Purple Team
Published in
3 min readMay 8, 2021

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From: towardsdatascience.com

WxHexEditor is a free hex editor tool for Linux, Windows, and MacOSX. WxHexEditor isn’t an ordinary hex editor, yet could fill in as a low-level disk editor as well. In any case that you have issues with your hard drive or segment, you can recoup your information from them by altering parts in raw hex. You can change your segment tables, or you can recover records from the File System by hand with the assistance of WxHexEdit. This tool is also useful for hiding secret messages in the null hex bytes of the image files. We will demonstrate how to perform this, but in the meantime, we should download WxHexEdit from the following website: https://www.wxhexeditor.org/home.php.”

After you download it, extract the file and run the executable application. Click on the “File” tab and then select the “Open” option. Next, find the image file and add it to the hex editor.

On the main page, the WxHexEditor will display all the hex bytes with their representations. In the hex field, find null bytes and replace…

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