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by unstatusthequo 895 days ago
Does the resulting file’s “signature,” that being the first handful of bytes, match the fake extension such that obvious stenography type checks will pass? In other words, we want the carpet to match the drapes and make it harder to detect at first pass.

Reference here on file signatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcq-3HNezes

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The output file can be used normally and the signature of the host file is also maintained. Here's an example of hiding a WEBP file within a JPG: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/94eed6b9d83424d7a552fc36.... You can access the output file here: https://gofile.io/d/DTMlii