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Learning Android Forensics
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Learning Android Forensics

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

Kik is a messaging app with over 50,000,000 downloads from the Play Store.

Package name: kik.android

Version: 7.9.0

Files of interest:

  • /cache/
    • chatPicsBig/
    • contentpics/
    • profPics/
  • /files/staging/thumbs
  • /shared_prefs/KikPreferences.xml
  • /sdcard/Kik/
  • /databases/kikDatabase.db

The chatPicsBig and contentpics directories in /cache contain images that were sent and received with the application. The files in contentpics contain what appears to be Kik metadata embedded before the image. The .jpg has to be carved out of these files. In our testing, all of the files in contentpics were also stored in chatPicsBig, though this may change with more extensive app usage. The user's profile picture is found in the /profPics directory.

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Data storage method ...

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ISBN: 9781782174578