File Injector

If you want to use a previous version (1.0.2 or lower), where you needed the original image to extract the file, you can download it here.

Index

• 1. Description
• 2. Getting Started
  • Install requirements
  • Run the script
  • Choose input
    • Choose a base image/audio
    • Choose an input file
    • Choose/Generate an encryption key
• 3. Results
• 4. Examples of use
  • Injection
  • Extraction
• 5. Configuration
• 6. What it does
• 7. How it works
  • Options
  • inject_file_func
  • extract_file_func
  • get_fernet
  • decrypt_content
  • inject_file
  • extract_file

1. Description

File Injector is a script that allows you to store any file (.zip, .png, .txt, .gba...) and its filename in an image/audio as noise, using steganography.

You can also choose to encrypt the input file before storing it.

Then, to extract the file from the modified image/audio, you DON'T need the original image/audio, just the encryption key if the file has been encrypted.

2. Getting Started

Install Requirements

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

If that doesn't work, you can try:

py -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the script

python3 main.py

Choose input

Choose a base image/audio

Choose a base image/audio for storing the file from the files/base folder.

You can also add your own images/audios to this folder.

• The images can be .png or (.jpg/.jpeg), but they will be converted to .png when the script is run.
• The audios have to be .mp3 or .wav, but they will be converted to .mp3 when the script is run.

Choose an input file

Choose a file to be stored in the image/audio from the files/input folder.

You can add your own files to this folder. They can be any type of files.

Choose a modified image/audio

Choose a modified image/audio for extracting the file from the files/modified folder.

You can also add your own modified images/audios to this folder.

Choose/Generate an encryption key

You can choose a key from the files/$encryption-keys folder or generate one there.

The key file must have the .key extension

You don't need to choose a particular one when decrypting a file, it will be selected automatically from the folder.

3. Results

This 17.1MP image contains an encrypted 9MB .zip file and its filename stored as noise.

This 1.7MP image contains an encrypted 0.93MB .zip file and its filename stored as noise.

This 42MB audio file contains an encrypted 9MB .zip file and its filename stored as noise.

winter-vivaldi_mod.mp4

4. Examples of use

Injection

... File-Injector % python3 main.py
[0] EXIT
[1] Inject file
[2] Extract file

Option: 1
File to be stored: images.zip
Filename of the base image: 2'2MP
Encrypt the file? (y/n): y

Do you want to use an existing key or generate a new one?
[0] Existing key
[1] New key

Option: 1
Filename of the new key file (blank for default): 
Key generated and saved to files/$encryption-keys/key9.key

Preparing...

Modified bits per channel: 2
Image modification: 1.56%

✅ Storing... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [100.0%]

Generating random values...

Storing random values...

Reshaping...

Modified image saved in files/modified-images/2'2MP_mod.png

Done in 7.5892 seconds

Extraction

... File-Injector % python3 main.py
[0] EXIT
[1] Inject file
[2] Extract file

Option: 2
Filename of the modified image: 2'2MP_mod

Preparing...

Retrieving filename...

Retrieving input file...
Decrypted with "files/$encryption-keys/key2.key"

Output file saved in files/output-files/images.zip

Done in 1.4083 seconds

5. Configuration

You can change the configuration in the config.py file.

Constant	Description	Default value
MOD_PREFIX	Prefix the modified image/audio will have	""
MOD_SUFFIX	Suffix the modified image/audio will have	"_mod"
STORE_RANDOM	Store random data in the modified image so that the limit between the part with the stored data and the part without is not so obvious	True
TEST_MODE	Enables/Disables Test Mode: Test with predefined images/audios and files	True

6. What it does

The injection is done by storing the file in the X less significant bits of each element of the array created by flattening the array of image/audio.

• Each element has 8 bits (if the base file is an image) or 16 bits (if the base file is an audio)
• This script changes from 1 to all the bits of each element, depending on the size of the file to be stored compared to the base image/audio.
• If you store a bigger file or if the base image/audio is smaller, more bits will be changed and the changes will be more noticeable.
• If you store a smaller file or if the base image/audio is bigger, less bits will be changed and the changes will be less noticeable.
• If the base image/audio is too small to store the file, the script will stop and warn you.
• If you choose to encrypt the file, its size will increase by ≈1/3.

7. How it works

Options

Option	Description
[0] EXIT	Exit the script
[1] Inject file	Calls inject_file_func()
[2] Extract file	Calls extract_file_func()

inject_file_func()

1. If TEST_MODE == True, it will use the predefined base image/audio and input file. Otherwise, it will ask for the base image/audio and input file.
2. Read the file (in bytes)
3. Read the image/audio and store it in a numpy array
4. Read the filename (in bytes)
5. If the user wants to encrypt the file:
   1. Get the key with get_fernet()
   2. Encrypt the file and filename
6. Try to inject the file and filename in the image/audio with inject_file().
   1. If the image/audio is too small to store the file, raise an error
   2. Else, return the modified image/audio.
7. Save the modified image/audio

extract_file_func()

1. If TEST_MODE == True, it will use the predefined modified image/audio. Otherwise, it will ask for the modified image/audio.
2. Read the modified image/audio
3. Extract file and filename as bytes with extract_file()
4. If the file and filename have been encrypted (they start with gAAAAA), decrypt them with decrypt_content
5. Decode the filename to UTF-8
6. Save the file with the decoded filename

get_fernet()

Option	Description
[0] Existing key	Use an existing key
[1] New key	Generate a new key

[0] Existing key

1. Choose a key to use from the files/$encryption-keys folder

[1] New key

1. Choose a filename for the new key (or leave it blank for the default one (e.g. key8.key))
2. Generate a new key and save it with the chosen filename
3. Return the Fernet object with the new key

decrypt_content()

1. For each key in the files/$encryption-keys folder:
   1. Try to decrypt the file and filename with it
   2. If InvalidToken is raised:
      1. It means that the key is not the right one
      2. Try with other key
   3. Else, return the key
2. If no key is found, raise an Exception

inject_file()

Parameter	Type	Description
arr	np.ndarray	Image/audio as a numpy array
file	bytes	File as bytes
filename	bytes	Filename as bytes
store_random	boolean	Whether or not to store random data in the modified image/audio

Returns the modified image/audio array (np.ndarray, with same shape as arr)

extract_file()

Parameter	Type	Description
mod_arr_flat	np.ndarray	Flattened modified image/audio

Returns a dictionary with the extracted file and filename, both in (bytes) format