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Military College of Signals, NUST

INFORMATION SECURITY
ASSIGNMENT

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Submitted to: Ma’am Anum Hassan


Group Members:
Yashfa Haroon
Shaiza Akhtar
Samraat Nadeem
Batch: BESE 27 C

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING


Military College of Signals
National University of Sciences and Technology
Alternate Data Streams: A Practical Steganography
Experiment

STEGANOGRAPHY:
The practice of hiding a secret message inside of something that is not secret to avoid detection.
Some examples of steganography involve embedding a secret piece of text inside of a picture, or in
other cases, audio files.

What is Alternate Data Streams(ADS)?


Alternate Data Streams allow hidden metadata or additional data (“steganography part one”) to
be appended to a file without affecting its size or functionality. ADS works only for NTFS file system in
Windows’s modern versions.

1) “Secret.txt” file: Contains our secret message.


2) “image.JPG” file: Contains the image in which our secret message will be hidden.

3) Place both files in the same folder:


4) Open command prompt(cmd): Type “cmd” in the highlighted Address bar.

5) Type in the following command: To hide the secret message in secret.txt into our
image.JPG file. “Hidden.txt” is the alternate hidden stream attached to “image.JPG” file.

6) Type in the “/r” command: To view all streams, including the hidden stream. There are
three streams visible here. The “image”, the “secret” file, and the “hidden” data stream.
7) Type in the “/r image.jpg” command: To view ADS attached to image.jpg file.
8) “image.JPG” file AFTER hiding secret message: Visually there is no change in
resolution or size of this image. Since the hidden data is stored as a separate stream in the file system.
Detecting Hidden Data
9) Type in the “more < image.jpg:hidden.txt” command: To view hidden
secret in “hidden.txt” alternate stream file.

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