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Learning Android Forensics
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Learning Android Forensics

by Rohit Tamma, Donnie Tindall
April 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
322 pages
7h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Skype analysis

Skype is a voice-/video-calling app, as well as a messaging app owned by Microsoft. It has over 100,000,000 installs on Google Play.

Package name: com.skype.raider

Version: 5.1.0.58677

Files of interest:

  • /cache/skype-4228/DbTemp
  • /sdcard/Android/data/com.skype.raider/cache/
  • /files/
    • shared.xml
    • <username>/thumbnails/
    • <username>/main.db
    • <username>/chatsync

The /cache/skype-4228/DbTemp directory contained multiple files with no extension. One of these files (temp-5cu4tRPdDuQ3ckPQG7wQRFgU on our device) was actually a SQLite database that contained the SSID and Media Access Control (MAC) of the wireless access points it had been connected to.

The SD card path will contain any images or files received in a chat. If a file is downloaded, it would ...

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ISBN: 9781782174578