mindcrypt / covertchannels-steganography

A list of covert channels and steganography/steganalysis resources (books, papers & tools)

Many people ask me how to start in the field of steganography/covert channels or how to improve their skills. I wrote this recopilation to help them with some good references, tools and books that I used and read (I will add more soon).

Books & Papers/Articles

• Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking - https://www.amazon.es/Information-Techniques-Steganography-Watermarking-Computing/dp/1580530354/ref=sr_1_111?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=steganography&qid=1558514922&s=gateway&sr=8-111

• Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking-Attacks and Countermeasures - https://www.amazon.es/Information-Hiding-Steganography-Watermarking-Attacks-Countermeasures/dp/1461369673/ref=sr_1_50?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=steganography&qid=1558514854&s=gateway&sr=8-50

• Digital Watermarking and Steganography - https://www.amazon.es/Digital-Watermarking-Steganography-Ingemar-Cox/dp/0124054765/ref=sr_1_8?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=steganography&qid=1558514737&s=gateway&sr=8-8

• Hiding in Plain Sight: Steganography and the Art of Covert Communication - https://www.amazon.es/Hiding-Plain-Sight-Steganography-Communication/dp/0471469793/ref=sr_1_20?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=steganography&qid=1558514780&s=gateway&sr=8-20

• Steganography in Digital Media: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications - https://www.amazon.es/Steganography-Digital-Media-Principles-Applications-ebook/dp/B00INYG7S4/ref=sr_1_24?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=steganography&qid=1558514780&s=gateway&sr=8-24

• Investigator's Guide to Steganography - https://www.amazon.es/Investigators-Steganography-English-Gregory-Kipper-ebook/dp/B00UV99Y9S/ref=sr_1_26?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=steganography&qid=1558514780&s=gateway&sr=8-26

• Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - https://www.amazon.es/Disappearing-Cryptography-Information-Steganography-Watermarking-ebook/dp/B002ZJSUYM/ref=sr_1_36?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=steganography&qid=1558514819&s=gateway&sr=8-36

• http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/publications.html

• Privacidad y ocultación de información digital. Esteganografía. Protegiendo y atacando redes informáticas - http://www.ra-ma.es/libros/PRIVACIDAD-Y-OCULTACION-DE-INFORMACION-DIGITAL-ESTEGANOGRAFIA/92742/978-84-9964-644-2

• https://github.com/mindcrypt/libros/blob/master/Esteganograf%C3%ADa%20ling%C3%BC%C3%ADstica%20y%20canales%20encubiertos%20-%20libro.pdf

• http://www.criptored.upm.es/crypt4you/temas/privacidad-proteccion/leccion7/leccion7.html

• https://es.slideshare.net/elevenpaths/buscando-stegomalware-en-un-oceano-de-apps

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography_tools

• https://www.garykessler.net/library/fsc_stego.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_channel

• http://gray-world.net/projects.shtml.html

• A guide to understanding cover channels analysis of trusted systems - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235170603_Covert_Channel_Analysis_of_Trusted_Systems_A_Guide_to_Understanding/download

• https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1029/

CTFS

• https://github.com/DominicBreuker/stego-toolkit
• https://www.yeahhub.com/top-steganography-tools-ctf-challenges/
• https://apsdehal.in/awesome-ctf/#steganography-1

Steganographic tools

• 110 steganographic tools - http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/tools.html
• https://github.com/TryCatchHCF/Cloakify
• https://github.com/ahhh/Stego_Dropper
• https://github.com/achorein/silenteye
• https://github.com/alexandremuzio/deep-steg
• https://github.com/Heisenberk/StegX
• https://github.com/owencm/js-steg
• https://github.com/surg0r/steg
• https://github.com/LabunskyA/StegoProxy
• https://github.com/adityangud/Video-Steganography-for-Piracy-Prevention
• https://github.com/syvaidya/openstego
• https://github.com/beatsbears/steg
• https://github.com/lozarcher/Stegbook
• https://github.com/thoppe/PDF_steganography
• https://github.com/raulfraile/steganography_talk
• https://github.com/vgmoose/ascii-steganography
• https://github.com/gitbrew/voices
• https://github.com/daniellerch/stego-retweet
• https://github.com/adyra/ARMS
• https://github.com/h-lame/stegosaurus
• https://github.com/Rbcafe/Outguess
• https://github.com/manmar92/BitStegNet
• https://github.com/pboueke/stego-wave
• https://github.com/maksimvrs/StegoMP3
• https://github.com/Epredator/jSteganographiX
• https://github.com/RobinDavid/LSB-Steganography
• https://github.com/lukechampine/jsteg
• https://github.com/DominicBreuker/stego-toolkit
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/f5-steganography/
• https://github.com/fbngrm/Matroschka
• https://github.com/harveyslash/Deep-Steganography
• https://github.com/danielcardeenas/AudioStego
• https://github.com/ktekeli/audio-steganography-algorithms
• https://github.com/Paradoxis/StegCracker
• https://github.com/b3dk7/StegExpose
• https://github.com/h3xx/jphs
• https://github.com/fredley/StegDroid
• https://github.com/cryptolok/SteCoSteg
• https://github.com/AlphaDelta/PNG-Mask
• https://github.com/jes/chess-steg
• https://github.com/jbochi/strogonoff
• https://github.com/MrAdamBoyd/Pictograph
• https://github.com/bannsec/stegoVeritas
• https://github.com/owencm/secretbook
• https://github.com/beardog108/snow10
• http://www.petitcolas.net/fabien/steganography/mp3stego
• http://compression.ru/video/stego_video
• http://diit.sourceforge.net/
• https://stegosploit.info/
• https://github.com/daniellerch/stegolab
• https://github.com/daniellerch/stego-book-2014
• Transmissions over time based covert channels across a network https://github.com/anfractuosity/timeshifter
• https://github.com/LabunskyA/covertele
• https://github.com/cdpxe/CCEAP
• https://github.com/bsteen/cloud-covert-channels
• https://github.com/Arno0x/DNSExfiltrator
• https://sourceforge.net/p/stegpage/wiki/Home/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/camerashy/
• https://github.com/mindcrypt/stegUnicode
• http://stelin.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.crazyboy.com/hydan/
• https://hord.ca/projects/deogol/intro.html
• https://jabriffa.wordpress.com/other/hugo-source-code/
• WOW - http://dde.binghamton.edu/download/stego_algorithms/
• https://github.com/DimitarPetrov/stegify
• https://pequalsnp-team.github.io/cheatsheet/steganography-101
• https://github.com/peewpw/Invoke-PSImage
• https://github.com/endgameinc/instegogram
• http://stegtorrent.sourceforge.net/
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51917905_Sending_Hidden_Data_via_Google_Suggest
• https://github.com/vgmoose/ascii-steganography
• https://github.com/RobinDavid/LSB-Steganography
• https://github.com/ktekeli/audio-steganography-algorithms
• https://github.com/cryptolok/SteCoSteg
• https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/Stegano
• https://github.com/ragibson/Steganography/tree/master/stego_lsb

Steganalysis tools

• http://vsl.sourceforge.net/
• https://book.hacktricks.xyz/stego/stego-tricks
• https://github.com/zed-0xff/zsteg
• https://stegonline.georgeom.net/upload
• https://github.com/eugenekolo/sec-tools/tree/master/stego/stegsolve/stegsolve
• https://github.com/th3gundy/stegCracker
• https://github.com/RickdeJager/stegseek
• http://www.jjtc.com/Steganalysis/
• https://www.guillermito2.net/stegano/
• stegdetect - http://www.outguess.org
• Spy Hunder - http://www.spy-hunter.com/stegspydownload.htm
• Stegkit - https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/151266
• Stegalyzer - http://www.sarc-wv.com/products/stegalyzeras.aspx
• Stego Suite - http://www.wetstonetech.com/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?view,1
• Stegsecret - http://stegsecret.sourceforge.net
• Stegexpose - https://github.com/b3dk7/StegExpose
• https://cryptonibbles.blogspot.com/2016/05/why-mr-robot-does-not-know-steganography.html?m=1
• Forensics analysis of video steganography tools - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277621523_Forensic_analysis_of_video_steganography_tools/download
• Image steganalysis using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques - https://github.com/daniellerch/aletheia
• https://github.com/daniellerch/papers
• https://github.com/rcouturier/steganalysis_with_CNN_for_same_key_images
• http://www.deepsteg.com/ -Deepsteg performs visual attacks, structural attacks, and statistical attacks (including deep learning based attacks) to detect files hidden within images and other files. Eventually, we want to extract the hidden data from these files.
• https://github.com/Charleswyt/tf_audio_steganalysis
• https://github.com/daniellerch/aletheia
• https://github.com/rabi3elbeji/SteganalysisCNN
• https://github.com/YassineYousfi/alaska
• https://github.com/YangzlTHU/IStego100K - IStego100K: Large-scale Image Steganalysis Dataset
• https://github.com/Ge0rg3/StegOnline
• https://github.com/quangntenemy/Steganabara
• https://github.com/rokkuran/stegasawus
• https://github.com/rabi3elbeji/udss
• https://github.com/Chenlang2018/BreakingSteganalysisGAN
• https://github.com/jessica0x73/steganalyse
• https://github.com/Paradoxis/StegCracker
• https://github.com/welloworld/welloganography-solver
• https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-sg/downloads/free-tools/steganography.html
• https://github.com/IncideDigital/Mistica
• https://github.com/javierwilson/cookie-stego
• https://github.com/Zeecka/AperiSolve
• https://github.com/librauee/Steganalysis
• https://github.com/Caenorst/YeNet-Pytorch
• https://github.com/yedmed/steganalysis_with_CNN_Yedroudj-Net
• https://github.com/brijeshiitg/Pytorch-implementation-of-SRNet
• https://github.com/luca-m/lsb-toolkit
• https://github.com/jiangszzzzz/CAECNNcode
• https://github.com/daniellerch/stegolab
• https://github.com/aminfazy/DL_steganalysis
• https://github.com/Linyuzhen/audio_steganalysis
• https://github.com/bolin-chen/audio-steganalysis-cnn
• https://github.com/deepsteg/deepsteg
• https://github.com/dfish13/Stegasaurus2

Stegomalware

• https://github.com/lucacav/steg-in-the-wild
• #Eko2020 Main Track | Dr. Alfonso Muñoz: Your polyglot belongs to me. Steganography in modern APTs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50K2Y0DMUI
• https://github.com/mindcrypt/polyglot