How To Hide Virus In Image ?

Hide Virus In Image

Today we are going to take a look at one of the easiest ways to disguise malware. With its help, thieves, keyloggers, and other nasty things are still disguised.

Step – 01

Create a folder and drag our image and virus there.

Step – 02

Go to iconvertcom and create an icon for our picture in the format settings, choose from 16×16 to 256×256. Next, click “Convert ICO” and download our icon.

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Step – 03

Don’t touch the icon yet. We return to the folder> select the image and the virus> add to the archive.

Step – 04

In the parameters of the archive, do the following. Click Create Self-Extracting Archive (General tab)> SFX Options (sub tab)> go to Update and click Extract and Update All Files and Overwrite All Files Without Prompt.

Step – 05

We go to the “Installation” tab and prescribe which files to open when starting our executable file, first a picture, then a virus.

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Step – 06

Go to the “Mode” tab and click “Unpack to a temporary folder” and “hide all”

Step – 07

Go to the “text and graphics” tab and load our icon (icon). So, we have replaced the archive icon with the icon of our picture.

Step – 08

We now have an exeple.exe executable with a photo icon. Pretty pale, so let’s use one trick.

We rename our file, namely, we enter excplegpj.exe between the name and the point “gpj”.

Now we hover over “gpj”, press pkm, and select
Insert Unicode Control Character> Select RLO.

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Our virus is disguised in the picture, and the file does not look like example.exe, but like the file example.jpg‌‌