Sunday, May 29, 2011

How to hide files and folders in JPEG image file

A File or Folder of any size can be hidden in an JPEG file by compression techniques and masking it in the image file.

Steps to hide a file in a JPEG images are --
  • Create folder in any of the hard disk drive.(c: \New Folder)
  • Then put some files whichever you want to hide in New Folder, as well as a JPEG image that you would like to hide the files in.
  • Then select all the file which you want to hide and add to ZIP or RAR .
  • Now create zip or rar files which you want to hide,
  • After this go to Windows Start menu, select Run and type cmd.
  • Type “cd \” then type “cd New Folder” press enter
  • Type “copy /b image.JPG + NewFolder.rar image.jpg”, here you have to Replace the name “image” with the name of your image, and replace “New Folder” with the name of your compressed file.)
  • Then you get the system message “1 file(s) copied.”
  • Now you can go ahead and delete the original files, except for the newly formed Image.
  • Then you get the files in your image for that you need to do is right-click on the image then only you will get the option of extracting it. Extract the image to get the hidden files.

NOTE :  This is a old technique which hackers used to do steal the data of the target and it can be done on stuffs easily even now so when u browse the net make sure you won't click these kind of suspicious images hosted in some of the suspicious sites just to steal the data of the victim and viruses also can enter a system when a image of these kind is clicked.

The method to find out either the image is embedded with some file or not is check the extention of the JPEG image file if it is just plain JPEG file then it is just an image if it is something other like jpeg.exe, jpeg.rar and so on then that particular image is an embedded image with some file in it.

The topic here is just for information so that our readers doesn't fall prey for these kind of stuffs.Tipsntweaks is in no way responsible for any use or misuse done based on the trick which is given for educational purpose alone.
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