Destroying Image Stegomalware Using a Lightweight and Robust Noising & an Invisible Watermark Approach
Recently, digital steganography has been a popular way used to hide
information into digital data. Specifically, image steganography is
the most used to conceal information in an image. Image steganogra phy can be performed through different techniques, algorithms, and
tools. Besides, many adversaries use steganography to conceal mali cious payload in images, and then they extract it by a dynamic way
on the victim’s device to do their malicious purposes, this what is
called stegomalware. In this thesis, we propose an anti stego-malware
approach that has the goal to destroy the stegomalware content in
an image to prevent the predicted malicious effects, without leaving
any visual degradation on the image. The concept of our approach
is to add a lightweight and robust noising to the image, in addition,
to add an invisible watermark to it. To implement our solution, we
have used two steganography algorithms to embed a malicious payload
into three images to obtain stego-images. Then, we have added the
lightweight noising and the invisible watermark to the stego-images to
obtain protected images. Finally, after testing it, the result obtained
show that our solution can destroy the stegomalware content in image
in a short time and without leaving any impact on the visual quality
of the image.