SANS SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques and Incident Handling — Question 5

John, a part-time hacker, has accessed in unauthorized way to the www.yourbank.com banking Website and stolen the bank account information of its users and their credit card numbers by using the SQL injection attack. Now, John wants to sell this information to malicious person Mark and make a deal to get a good amount of money. Since, he does not want to send the hacked information in the clear text format to Mark; he decides to send information in hidden text. For this, he takes a steganography tool and hides the information in ASCII text by appending whitespace to the end of lines and encrypts the hidden information by using the IDEA encryption algorithm. Which of the following tools is John using for steganography?

Answer options

• A. Image Hide
• B. Mosaic
• C. Snow.exe
• D. Netcat

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C, Snow.exe, which is a known steganography tool that allows users to hide information within various formats. The other options, while they may be related to networking or other forms of data manipulation, do not specifically serve the purpose of steganography as effectively as Snow.exe does.