bndzor / bin2png

Convert a binary file to a PNG image and then back to binary.

Bin2PNG

WIP In Progress. Its modified for Linux from Leeroy Brun source. Thanks Leeroy :)

//Artur

Convert a binary file to a PNG image and then decrypt it back to binary.

Binary to PNG :

Each bytes of the binary file are converted to numbers (0-255), which will then define a pixel color. For each bytes will be a grayscale pixel in the final PNG image. The PNG image can have more pixels than the number of bytes of the binary file. The excess pixels will have a RGB(255, 0, 0) color (red) and will be ignored when decrypting the file.

PNG to Binary :

When decrypting the PNG file to create the corresponding binary file, we take each pixels of the image and get their color. If the R & G color are different, we skip this pixel. It is not at grayscale, and so is an excess pixel. If it is grayscale, we take the color number for R and then convert it to it's binary representation. We construct an unsigned char array with all decrypted binary data of pixels and then save it back to a binary file.

Usage :

You can download the exe file directly from here : https://github.com/leeroybrun/Bin2PNG/releases/download/v1.1/Bin2PNG.exe

Or you can build it with Visual Studio or any other C compiler.

Then place your binary file to transform in the same folder as the Bin2PNG.exe file, and rename it to in.exe.

You can then encrypt it to a PNG image :

Bin2PNG.exe encrypt

If successfull, it will then generate an image.png file.

You can then decrypt this file back to a binary like this :

Bin2PNG.exe decrypt

It will decrypt the image.png file and create a new binary out.exe.

Todo :

• Add parameters to define the name of the binary and image files
• Maybe find a better way to convert byte to number
• Find why the decrypted exe is a bit larger than the original

Licence

(The MIT License)

Copyright (C) 2013 Leeroy Brun, www.leeroy.me

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