Hide Any File in an Image - Steganography Tutorial

How to hide a file inside of an image? In this tutorial, I show you how to hide a file inside of an image file. This is a great way to hide anything from anyone. The steps in this tutorial can hide any file type including picture files, text files, video files, software files, exe, apk, bat, etc... This tutorial requires a Windows computer and compression software; I recommend 7-Zip.

The practice in this tutorial is known as Steganography and is used to conceal a file, message, image, data, or video within another file. This how-to video was made for educational purposes only.

How to hide a file inside an image:
1. Right-click on the desktop and create a new folder titled "test."
2. Add the image file as well as the other file that you would like to hide inside the "Test" folder.
3. Rename the image something short and easy. In this tutorial, I named it "Image."
4. For this tutorial, I created a text document and placed fake banking information in the text file.
6. Select the Start button in the bottom-left and search CMD. When you seen Command Prompt appear from the list of options, select it.
7. When Command Prompt opens, if you created a folder named "test," then type:
cd desktop/test
or
cd desktop/[insert folder name here without brackets]
and press Enter.
8. Next, type: dir
and press Enter.
This will pull up a directory of items that are in that folder. You should see your image file.
9. Next, type:
or
copy / b [name of image file without the brackets]+[name of text or other file without brackets] [new name of second image file without brackets]
and press Enter.
10. Return to your test folder, and you should have a second image in the image folder called image 2.
11. If you open the image 2 file, it will open and appear just like image 1. If you open it in 7-Zip, should be able to see the .txt file. If you open that, you will see your text file. If you did this with a video or other image, they should appear here.

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[sheez-]

bro be making videos under the ocean, appreciate his efforts

[garlicbread]

This video is very simple, easy to understand, and goes straight to the point. Thank you for this tutorial.

[cjwheeler]

yep u sure can....you can any file. But tweak the script code so that any one one doesnt know that the file is not as it says it is it will open up as txt, jpg, png. etct. I just followed the same steps in this
.1. create folder
2 in folder have 1 apk fil and 1 whatever kind of file like txt, png, jpg etc.
4. zip apk..i didnt need to delete it
3 run command below

copy /b image.png+app.zip image2.png


great tutorial!!

[freshlysqueezed]

DUDE holy crap thank you so much. Had an assignment to learn this and this is the only vid i understood from. Ur a life saver

[Shaljroan]

Im immensely grateful for this sly form of data concealment tutorial. I appreciate you.

[EduardoGarcia-ehsh]

Dude. You made this so simple and to the point. I think you earned a sub, i was just looking this up out of curiosity lol

[mhdnzrulizwn]

THANK YOU ALOT FOR THE TUTORIAL

This is one of the most simple yet useful contain in the platform ! Keep it up king!

[kanunisultansuleyman]

i hope my dad doesn't find this video out and say "son why is your image has size of 100 gb?" if you know what i mean

[unteejo]

You help me make a progress in a CTF competition.
Thx a lot!

[FiksIIanzO]

You don't really have to append the files via cmd, you can just literally open both in notepad and ctrl+c, ctrl+v one at the end of another. Works like a charm if you're afraid of terminals.

[goku_kadhir]

Great one!....

Is there any way to unmerge the output file?

[idontknow]

This was a real cool tutorial! Thank you! I'm doing a virtual scavenger hunt and this will be super handy!

[sk.md.ashrafsir]

in cmd i am getting this The system cannot find the path specified.

[shuben]

That was a great precise short and understandable content, WOW !! Thanks

[d]

If I copied an uncompressed file (PDF file) to the image, how do I view it? 7Zip doesn't seem to work for it.

[puzzzlepiece]

Wow. This is so well explained and easy to follow. Best video i've found!

[vipulmalviya]

Nice video. Easy to understand. Thanks

[Ice_]

This is the digital version of creating a Horcrux from the Harry Potter series. Question, when I open the image with the zip files in it already, can I simply add/drag more files into it?

[Akoyaya]

I’m so glad I found this video. Thank you

[ghettoandroid]

This does not work for me. After I've succefully combined the files and try to open the combined file in 7-zip, it just opens it as a regualer image file. I've tried renaming the extension to .zip, and it says compressed folder is invalid. Does this only work for with certian types of png files? My png file was created in photoshop.