stegcracker(1)

💅 stegcracker — the steganography brute-force tool (manual section 1, bestie)

okay so picture this: your file is acting sus, there's definitely something hiding in there, and this little icon is gonna brute-force its way in. this is the stegcracker(1) page and i'm gonna walk you through every single flag like we're texting at 2am. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

stegcracker [options] <file> [<wordlist>]

that's the whole vibe. options go first, then the file you're cracking, then optionally a wordlist if you're feeling fancy. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

StegCracker is a steganography brute-force utility. its whole job? uncovering hidden data inside files. that's it. that's the girl. 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — shows you this help message and then dips. classic. ✨
• -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT — where the output file goes. this is the file your data gets written to once a password gets cracked successfully. if you don't specify an output location, the default is just the same filename with ".out" tacked onto the end. no cap. 📁
• -t THREADS, --threads THREADS — how many concurrent threads are out here cracking passwords. bumping this number might get you better performance. Default: 16 🔥
• -c CHUNK_SIZE, --chunk-size CHUNK_SIZE — how many passwords get loaded into memory per thread cycle. once every password in the chunk has been depleted, a status update gets printed to the console showing the attempted password. Default: 64 🧚
• -q, --quiet, --stfu — runs the program in "quiet mode", meaning literally no status updates or other output gets echoed to the terminal except the cracked password. and fyi, by default all logging / error messages get printed to stderr, which is what makes piping to other processes so much easier. 🤫
• -v, --version — prints the current version number and exits. short and sweet. 💅
• -V, --verbose — runs the program in "verbose mode", which prints extra debugging information. include this output when you're submitting bug reports, it's literally so helpful. cannot be used in conjunction with the "--quiet" argument. so pick a lane bestie, you can't have both. 🙈

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• file — the input file you think is hiding information and you wanna crack. Note: Stegcracker only accepts the following file types: jpg, jpeg, bmp, wav, au. that's the whole guest list, no plus-ones. 📸
• wordlist — a wordlist containing one or more passwords, one password per line. if you don't supply a password list, it defaults to the rockyou.txt wordlist. iconic behavior honestly. 📝

💜 AUTHORS 💜

StegCracker was written by Luke Paris (Paradoxis). 🫶

this manpage was written by Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that. this was stegcracker version 2.1.0, dated 29 December 2020 — go crack something, periodt. 👑💖