Chapter 6

Data Hiding Forensics

Abstract

This chapter is the reverse of Chapter 3 as it looks into how data hiding forensics investigate different methods to detect concealed data in digital files and the Windows file structure. In addition, the chapter illustrates how we can investigate Windows-based machines to determine whether any steganography tools have been installed or used.

This chapter is divided into two major sections.

In the first section, we investigate digital media files (images, text documents, audio and video files) and how data was concealed inside them. This section is the other side of the coin when compared with Chapter 3. We follow the same sequence used previously and reverse the process to demonstrate how each hiding technique ...

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