A characteristic-preserving steganographic method based on revision identifiers

Since the majority of the available steganographic schemes in OOXML format documents suffered the disadvantages of unsatisfactory anti-detection capability and security level, a characteristic-preserving steganographic method with high security is proposed in this paper. The proposed method embeds secret information by replacing the last three bytes of the values of the revision identifiers in the main document body of the OOXML format document, while preserving the normal characteristics of the document. Meanwhile, position marks are added to track the locations of the embedded information. In order to keep the internal data consistency of the document, the newly created values are added into other related parts. Experimental results show that the method not only possesses good imperceptibility and anti-detection capability, but also has high security and large embedding capacity. © 2016 SERSC.