EnCase forensic technology for decrypting stenography algorithm applied in the PowerPoint file

Abstract

The growth of both IT technology and the Internet Communication has involved the development of lot of encrypted information. Among others techniques of message hiding, stenography is one them but more suspicious as no one cannot see the secret message. As we always use the MS Office, there are many ways to hide secret messages by using PowerPoint as normal file. In this paper, we propose a new technique to find a hidden message by analysing the in PowerPoint file using EnCase Transcript. The result analysis shows that Steganography technique had hidden a certain number of message which are invisible to naked eye.