CloakifyFactory is developed by Joe Gervais (TryCatchHCF). This was presented at DEF CON24. This tool hides the data in plain sight—it bypassed data loss prevention (DLP), whitelisting controls, and antivirus (AV) detection. Blue team members already know what to look for when hunting for traces of attack in the memory or in the network traffic. Cloakify defeats them all by transforming any file type into simple strings using text-based steganography.
As mentioned by Souvik Roya and P.Venkateswaran in their white paper:
"Steganography is the art of hiding of a message within another so that the presence of a hidden message is indistinguishable. The key concept behind steganography is that a message to be transmitted is not ...
