Aperi'Solve

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Aperi'Solve is an open-source steganalysis web platform that performs automated analysis on images to detect and extract hidden data using common steganography tools and techniques.

Key features

• Visualize each bit layer (LSB and other layers) per image channel (R/G/B/Alpha).
• Color remapping (random palette remaps with 8 generated variants)
• Runs 16 analyzers in parallel and displays their output, with per-tool success/no-result badges and one-click download of extracted files:
  • binwalk (embedded archives)
  • exiftool (metadata and geolocation)
  • file (MIME type and format detection)
  • GraphicsMagick identify (image info & properties)
  • foremost (carved files)
  • jsteg (JPEG LSB extraction)
  • jpseek / jphide (JPEG steganography extraction, with password)
  • openstego (extraction with password)
  • outguess (extraction with password, deep analysis)
  • pcrt (PNG check & repair)
  • pngcheck
  • steghide (extraction with password)
  • strings
  • zsteg (LSB text/data extraction)
• In-app wiki (/wiki): a HackTricks-style steganography handbook — a triage methodology, a decision-tree cheatsheet, technique pages per medium (image, audio, text, files), and a guide per analyzer, all authored as Markdown.
• Internationalization: UI available in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese and Portuguese under language-prefixed URLs (/fr/, /es/, …).
• Worker queue architecture for offloading heavy/slow analyzers (Redis + background workers).
• Content-addressed result cache, HTTP caching, and per-endpoint rate limiting.
• Results stored temporarily for later browsing and download, then cleaned up automatically by a scheduled job.

Adding an analyzer

Adding an analyzer is a single file: subclass SubprocessAnalyzer, set a few class attributes (name, has_archive, needs_password, deep_only, display_order), and install the tool in the Dockerfile. The worker run list, download allow-list, and frontend order are all derived automatically. See docs/adding-analyzer.md.

Quick start (Docker)

In case you want to host your own version of https://www.aperisolve.com/.

Required: Docker + Docker Compose.

git clone https://github.com/Zeecka/AperiSolve.git
cd AperiSolve
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d

Then browse url: http://localhost:5000/

Ads and analytics are disabled by default; every integration (ADSENSE_*, CUSTOM_EXTERNAL_SCRIPT, SITE_BASE_URL, Sentry) is opt-in via environment variables documented in .env.example.

Architecture

The stack runs as Docker Compose services:

• web — Flask app served by gunicorn (Jinja templates + vanilla JS frontend).
• worker — an RQ worker that runs the analyzers for each submission, fanning out to one thread per tool.
• cron — an RQ cron scheduler that runs the retention cleanup off the request path.
• initdb — a one-shot service that creates the tables and pre-fills the IHDR CRC recovery database.
• postgres — stores image metadata and submission status.
• redis — RQ broker (DB 0) and rate-limiter storage (DB 1).
• rqdashboard — queue monitoring, bound to localhost:9181.

This separation keeps heavy tools (binwalk, foremost, zsteg, etc.) isolated and avoids blocking the web worker. Identical submissions are deduplicated by a content hash, and derived images are cached with long-lived immutable HTTP headers, so repeat traffic is cheap.

Documentation

• docs/adding-analyzer.md — add a new analyzer.
• docs/deploy.md — the tag-driven production deploy flow.
• CONTRIBUTING.md — dev setup, tests, wiki pages, and translations.

Testing

uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest -q            # unit tests (no services needed)

# end-to-end analyzer tests through the running app:
docker compose -f compose.dev.yml up -d
uv run pytest tests/test_webapp_analyzers.py -v

Roadmap

See Issues.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Security

Credits

Thanks to donors:

• Philip Zimmermann
• Ed Guillory
• Silje Hollås

Thanks to contributors:

• Zeecka - (author)
• aradhyacp
• Philip Zimmermann
• abneeeees

Thanks to the open-source community: binwalk, exiftool, GraphicsMagick identify, foremost, jsteg, jphide/jpseek, openstego, outguess, pcrt, pngcheck, steghide, strings, zsteg, ...