Wednesday, November 18, 2015

MegaDownloader and Steganography

From version 1.7 onwards (click here to download it), MegaDownloader will add the option to hide MEGA links inside JPEG images using a technique called Steganography.

Steganography, according to the Wikipedia, "is the practice of concealing a file, message [...] within another file [...]. 
The word steganography combines the Greek words steganos (στεγανός), meaning "covered, concealed, or protected", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "writing"."

Thanks to this technique, you will be able to hide, protect and share MEGA links directly from a JPEG image.

How will this option work?

MegaDownloader will allow these two options:
  • Create an image with hidden links.
  • Load links from the previous image and download them.

MegaDownloader will also allow to choose between saving the links in a visible way, or an "invisible" way, so the user that retrieves them will be able to download them, but not see them.

Moreover, links will be protected with a password (optional), so discover the hidden data will be very difficult (or directly impossible).

How does this feature work?


Steganography consists in two steps (normally it is referred as the first one, but in practice both are always applied):
  • Hide the data so an "attacker" doesn't know there is a hidden message.
  • Cipher the data so even if the "attacker" discover there is a hidden message, can't retrieve it.
This second step is easly achieved using cryptography (AES for example). The first step is more complex and depends on the image type.
For Bitmaps, normally the information is hidden in the LSB (less significant byte). A normal user won't be able to retrieve the data or notice there is something hidden. A stegano analyst will use "statistical attacks" in order to determine if there is a message hidden - normally with some degree of success.
However nowadays nobody uses Bitmaps... so what about JPEGs (the most common image format)?

The simpler way is to hide information after the EOF of the JPEG, or inside the EXIF or the comment markers (COM). These methods are trivial, a normal user won't see them easily but a stegano analyst will discover it immediately.

There are more complex techniques for JPEG. For example, hidding information in the DCT matrix.
This is how both Outguess and JSteg works. The bad side is that these methods are old and nowadays are considered broken - using statistical attacks it is possible to detect a message hidden.

A more recent technique called "F5" (an evolution of F3 and F4 algorithms) allow to hide information in the JPEG but makes it much difficult to an analyst to discover the message - it offers a good resistance to statistical attacks.
This algorithm can be broken in some cases using an statistical test called "Chi Square analysis". However, if the message is small enough compared to the container image, the probability of discovering a message is reduced.

So, to sum up, most of the steganographic algorithm are considered "broken", although F5 is one of the most secure. When we say "broken" we mean that an analyst can discover a secret message with a certain probability, but if it is ciphered, then he won't be able to deciphered it without the password - if the cipher algorithm is good, of course.

Which techniques implement MegaDownloader?


First, MegaDownloader uses the F5 algorithm to hide links inside the JPEGs. This ensures that will be very difficult, or even impossible in some cases, to discover a message in the image (the smaller message, the more difficult to discover).
It also distributes the message over the image, using a pseudo-random distribution based on a password, which difficults the analysis.

Second, the message is ciphered, using a 256 bit AES cipher, with a random IV generated with a CSPRNG (Cryptographically Secure PseudoRandom Number Generator).
The key is derived with a PBKDF2 function, using more than 25,000 SHA1 iterations with a salt.


Can this be tagged as "secure"? 
First, consider there is nothing 100% secure (specially for the NSA :p). Taking this into account, we have used some of the most advanced techniques to protect and hide the links inside JPEG images.
The security of the system is based on the password chosen for ciphering the data, so if the password is strong enough, it wouldn't be a mistake say that yes, it could be considered quite secure :)

Can I test it?


Of course! In this link you can download last version.

Want to try?
Download this image (or select the URL), put it into the Steganography window (Options/Retrieve links from an image) and enter the password "Megadownloader".

http://www.subeimagenes.com/img/output-1538992.jpg
If you find any problem or bug don't hesitate in posting it so we can help you :)

127 comments:

  1. I'm excited to see these new changes. Good job!

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  2. Hi, I was wondering if you would consider adding this as a feature in your next update. It would be nice to include a function like a Boss Key which uTorrent has which hides the program from the desktop view and from the tray as well, and to be restored after pressing the right key combination and entering a password. I think it's be useful for a lot of people...

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  3. el ultimo instalador asi como el link me lo bloquean por virus alguno con el mismo problema?

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  5. Error: ''Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item'', please help!

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    1. Hi, did you get around the issue? I´m having the same problem.

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    2. Most probably your antivirus is causing this. Disable it and try again.

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    3. Most probably your antivirus is causing this. Disable it and try again.

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  7. Why every mega link got branded as 'Invalid link'. I even wrote .co but to no avail.

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  8. Better use PNG instead JPEG.
    Big .jpeg can result suspicious,
    but .pgn files are usally very big,
    so they can pass desapercibited.

    And some hosters recompress jpg files, but not the png ones.

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  9. Hi
    thanks for this cool tool, i was wondering, why there is an outgoing communication whenever i start the programs and while it's downloading?

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  10. Hola, me salta este error en log's con la version 1.7, intentendo descargar un archivo de 45Gb, cuando llega mas o menos al 75% la descarga se detiene, pone descargando pero a velocidad 0Kb/s.

    2016-03-13T09:19:09:754 [ID#6] >>> Error in Downloader.DoWork: System.OverflowException: La operación aritmética ha provocado un desbordamiento.
    en MegaDownloader.FileDownloader.ChunkDownloader_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)

    ¿Cual puede ser el problema?

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  11. Hola, me salta este error en log's con la version 1.7, intentendo descargar un archivo de 45Gb, cuando llega mas o menos al 75% la descarga se detiene, pone descargando pero a velocidad 0Kb/s.

    2016-03-13T09:19:09:754 [ID#6] >>> Error in Downloader.DoWork: System.OverflowException: La operación aritmética ha provocado un desbordamiento.
    en MegaDownloader.FileDownloader.ChunkDownloader_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)

    ¿Cual puede ser el problema?

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  12. Hola, me salta este error en log's con la version 1.7, intentendo descargar un archivo de 45Gb, cuando llega mas o menos al 75% la descarga se detiene, pone descargando pero a velocidad 0Kb/s.

    2016-03-13T09:19:09:754 [ID#6] >>> Error in Downloader.DoWork: System.OverflowException: La operación aritmética ha provocado un desbordamiento.
    en MegaDownloader.FileDownloader.ChunkDownloader_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)

    ¿Cual puede ser el problema?

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    1. Hola amigo, me esta saliendo ese error y no deja baja nada ud lo logro solucionar?

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  13. Hi. same Jorgs225's problem.

    meanwhile:

    thanks for this application, is perfect a suggest: retry by error can put in seconds??

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  14. I really like your idea for adding stenography to uploads. I've actually been doing something similar on my own various uploads to public hosting sites.

    However, there is a very basic feature that if possible I would love to see implemented in 1.8 (or 1.7.1 or whatever). A scroll-bar on the right of your list of downloads. It seems like such a small complaint, but I often find myself downloading many different files at a time (each of which need their own folder) and having to stretch the window out vertically is really annoying (and eventually impractical) after awhile. And sometimes it STILL won't fit all my downloads.

    Is this a possible quick-fix that can be implemented? Please and thank you very much, I appreciate all the hard work you've put into these programs!

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  15. Hello such good work beforehand . I have a very important request , I could provide the source code of the application , try downloading the link code but blocks Goole .

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  16. Saludos. Me parece genial la aplicacion y me gustaria que tuviera soporte para Click'n'load...

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  17. U can download from mega.nz with idm & etc by this site www.mega-debrit.com

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  18. U can download from mega.nz with idm & etc by this site www.mega-debrit.com

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  19. Hi. I have a suggestion, could you please do the password field just a "text field"? Sometimes the app don't uncompress the RAR successfully, and when I want to see the password to extract the file manually, I can't see it, It's just black circles because is a password field.

    Thanks a lot!

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  20. Excelente, y mas contento de que sean hispanohablantes los que desarrollaran este programa, como usuario regular de jdownloader, creo de el programa deberia de tener un espacio de lugar de origen, esto para poder pegar la direccion de origen del archivo y no solo la direccion de descarga. Tambien el espacio de contraseña deberia de ser visible y no oculto. Excelente de nuevo.

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  21. Thank you very much , excellent program , you could add what passwords are stored extraction ? so that when I do homework auto unzip automatically if the password is stored ?

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  22. Un programa excelente, es muy util cuando se sobrepasa el limite de ancho de banda que impone Mega, ojalá nunca pierda su funcionalidad.

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  23. Sinceras GraCias Totales! sIEMPRe!! lml

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  24. Please add the function to disable sleep or hibernate when downloads are ongoing. Thank you!

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  25. Unfortunately this program is abandoned / discontinued.
    Desafortunadamente este programa es abandonado / suspendió.

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  26. hmmmm help me please the program used to work fine but suddnly when i start it this happens please help :( and if i click on it it will crash
    https://s27.postimg.org/60fv9o24j/1222.jpg

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    1. https://postimg.org/image/mo7dc5wvz/

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    2. opening the program in safemode works but i want it to work without safe mode
      reinstalling net framework didnt fix the issue

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  27. it's not working anymore, when i add links, it shows a menssage that the links are invalid

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  29. Hola, muchas gracias por el programa es excelente, pero últimamente es tenido algunos problemas al utilizarlo, me gustaría saber si me podrían ayudar.

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  30. kindly reply me if you can make project in php with resume, i can pay for it.

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  31. megadownloader.filedownloader.bgw download dowork(objectender,doworkeventargs e) podrian decirme como resolverlo

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  32. Anyone else getting an automatic error when trying to download more than one file at a time using MegaDownloader? I assume MEGA has now partially blocked MD. It just started happening to me today, previously it was fine.

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    1. same for me, just says video .mkv.part :(

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    3. I restarted the download and it works LOL

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  33. algum brasileiro ai?
    o megadownloader parou de funcionar aqui

    help

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    1. Olá baixe aqui no www.RMDownloads.tk
      Link: https://goo.gl/C9hwFv

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    2. Pura enganação desse cara, é a mesma versão 1.7 só que tem que passar por uns 30 redirecionadores de páginas com várias propagandas.

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  35. Can some one help my download is stuck on 33gb and on 0kb/s

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  36. Hey, I want to translate into Turkish language this app. Can you help me_?

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  37. Why don't you open source the code, because clearly you are not working on this anymore, let some other developers continue this app, as you haven't put out a new version in nearly 2 years...!

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  38. I have been using Megadownloader since several months and it stopped working since yesterday...

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  39. Please adjust the program because no download starts and ERROR! Thanks in advance to the whole staff !!

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  40. Megadownloader 7.1 as a result ERROR at each download link, please fix the program, thank you all!

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  41. The program keep get ERROR on each download link, please fix it. Thank You!!!

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  42. hello people: i can fix temporaly the problem whit this software... https://ultrasurf.us/
    Now only wait for version 1.8 =)

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  43. no funcina da error ayudaaa :,v

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  44. Yep! Apparently the author of MegaDownloader will have to go back to the drawing board because our friends of mega.co.nz need to bill and now even to download a measly file of 1 mega you have to create an account in MEGA!

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  45. If I have a MEGA account, how can I do to Megadownloader uses it to download my files?

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  46. Not working now... mega.nz blocked it!

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  47. io ho un accunt in Mega e lo stesso megadowloader mi da' errore qualcuno puo' spiegarmi come faccio a risolvere questo problema ? ho Mega pagato

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  50. I think that mega.nz is restringing the download limit by IP address in their Servers, maybe is not the client. I hope that the futire update will work fine.

    Greetings and thanks!

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  51. Please upload MegaUploader software, all the links are broken in the software's blog, and I couldn't find active links elsewhere.

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  53. Not working anymore. Thx for this software.

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  63. So apparently MEGA long time ago began doing a server-side patch so that MegaDownloader can't no longer get around any download size restrictions...

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