How To Change Meta Data or EXIF Data Of Image File
In Digital Forensics an image is play important role to find any criminal. When we capture a picture on Mobile device then mobile feed some information into the picture. That information are property of image. When criminal do any crime then Digital Forensics Experts can extract information from Image. A computer expert criminal also can change the metadata to hide their activity.
Normally we can’t get Metadata in any picture. You need to use some software to get Metadata from Images with Exiftool or Jhead etc. Digital Forensics Experts can collect Evidence from images by using these Software. Here will use Jhead tool to investigate the image and change the metadata.
How To Change Metadata Of Any Image With Windows And Linux
Step#1. First of all you need a special tool for that you can download it from here.
Step#2. Now you need to open Command Prompt in your Windows computer system, then type Command to use jhead tool, jhead.exe imag.jpg (Image File Name With Extension like, jpg,png, jpeg).
Step#3. After that you will get Metadata of Image then note Date and time for change that. Then type new command, jhead.exe -ta-50 imagedemo.jpg then hit enter ( here -ta command for change Date information and -50 in Hours to less, you can change it as you want ).
Now it will modify, then you can check Metadata with exiftool or jhead tool. You can use these usefull commands to change metadata.
jhead -mkexif *.jpg touch -t 201410201700 *.jpg (for change the time)
jhead -dsft *.jpg
jhead -ft *.jpgIf you want to change other information then type command “jhead.exe -h” to know all commands of this tool. Then you can change every information of Metadata.
Conclusion– so guy with using these tool an expert hacker or criminal can hide their important evidence. If you interested in Digital Forensics then you should know these techniques. You can change every metadata of Images. Jhead commands are same for Windows and Linux, you can use it easily. So if you find this article is helpful for you then you can share it to your social profiles or friends and family.
