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stegseek: Notes

StegCracker has been retired following the release of StegSeek, which will blast through the rockyou.txt wordlist within 1.9 second as opposed to StegCracker which takes ~5 hours.

Download and install

root@X220:~# wget https://github.com/RickdeJager/stegseek/releases/download/v0.5/stegseek_0.5-1.deb

root@X220:~# dpkg -i stegseek_0.5-1.deb
Selecting previously unselected package stegseek.
(Reading database ... 303029 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack stegseek_0.5-1.deb ...
Unpacking stegseek (0.5-1) ...
Setting up stegseek (0.5-1) ...

root@X220:~# which stegseek
/usr/local/bin/stegseek

root@X220:~#

Example

# stegseek cool.jpeg
StegSeek version 0.5
Progress: 5.60% (7841383 bytes)

[i] --> Found passphrase: "p@55w0rd"
[i] Original filename: "out.txt"
[i] Extracting to "cool.jpeg.out"
#
# stegseek austrailian-bulldog-ant.jpg wordlist.txt
StegSeek version 0.5
Progress: 93.55% (377848 bytes)

[i] --> Found passphrase: "123adanaantinwar"
[i] Original filename: "user-pass-ftp.txt"
[i] Extracting to "austrailian-bulldog-ant.jpg.out"

Practice

>>> THM | The Blob Blog

>>> THM | Different CTF/a>

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