Universal steganography detector based on an artificial immune system for JPEG images

José De Jesús Serrano Pérez, Moises Salinas Rosales, Nareli Cruz-Cortés

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Abstract

Steganography is a hiding information technique heavily used nowadays. Though initially it was used to establish hidden communication channels, modern steganography has been found useful to hide code inside multimedia objects, mostly images. Its goal is to infiltrate malware into organizations or personal devices. This kind of malware is called stegomalware. As countermeasure, modern steganalysis methods employing different Computational Intelligence techniques such as Support Vector Machine, Machine Learning, Fisher Linear Discriminant, and others have been utilized. In this work we present a new stegananalysis method based on an Artificial Immune System (AIS), to detect JPEG images modified with three well known steganographic tools: F5, Outguess, or Steghide. It is also proposed the usage of Haar Wavelets to extract a feature vector that best describes the analyzed image, this is due the Haar Wavelets fast calculation and information synthesis. Our experimentation results are competitive against techniques representative of the state of the art.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1896-1903
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781509032051
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventJoint 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016 - Tianjin, China
Duration: 23 Aug 201626 Aug 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016

Conference

ConferenceJoint 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period23/08/1626/08/16

Keywords

  • Artificial immune systems
  • Haar wavelets
  • Image analysis
  • Steganalysis
  • Steganography

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