hidden rar files

[gord747]

A 12-part set of compressed rar files for a website under development were sent to me in an email. I opened and reassembled them with the latest version version of winrar, and found splash.psd and v6.psd. Although there was nothing to hide, I assumed that the website files were hidden or obfuscated by the image files. Files can be hidden behind (jpg) image files for transmission. I tried renaming the .psd files and opening them with winrar however that did not work. I then viewed the files with winrar and found photoshop rdf markup and some binary code, but no html files.

I also tried renaming the .psd files to .zip and .exe, and used different utilities including linux archive manager and an older version of winrar, but no luck so far. The image files are about 20.6mb and 16.7mb apiece, so they probably contain much more than images. I would appreciate any advice that you can offer about retrieving the website files.

 

[Ken g6]

Are you sure they weren't just sending you the site layout as Photoshop files? It's been several years since I did it, but I recall that Photoshop can export an image, in pieces, as a web page.

 

[DaveSimmons]

That would be my guess too - they are just sending you the PS files used to make bitmaps such as backgrounds, buttons, borders, logos, . . . .

If you open it in PS, you'll probably see dozens of layers, and when you un-hide different layers you will see different parts of the graphics for your site.