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Learning Android Forensics

You're reading from  Learning Android Forensics

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781782174578
Pages 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Learning Android Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Introducing Android Forensics 2. Setting Up an Android Forensic Environment 3. Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices 4. Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices 5. Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices 6. Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device 7. Forensic Analysis of Android Applications 8. Android Forensic Tools Overview Index

WhatsApp analysis


WhatsApp is a popular chat-/video-messaging service with over 500,000,000 downloads in Google Play.

Package name: com.whatsapp

Version: 2.11.498

Files of interest:

  • /files/

    • Avatars/

    • me

    • me.jpeg

  • /shared_prefs/

    • RegisterPhone.xml

    • VerifySMS.xml

  • /databases/

    • msgstore.db

    • wa.db

  • /sdcard/WhatsApp/

    • Media/

    • Databases/

The /files/avatars directory contains thumbnails of the profile pictures of contacts that use the app, and me.jpg is a full-size version of the user's profile picture. The me file contains the phone number associated with the account

The phone number associated with the account can also be recovered in /shared_prefs/RegisterPhone.xml. The /shared_prefs/VerifySMS.xml file shows the time that the account was verified (in the Linux epoch format, of course), indicating when the user first began using the app.

The msgstore.db database, like it sounds, contains messaging data:

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chat_list

The key_remote_jid column shows each account the user has communicated...