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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition
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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

by Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall, Rohit Tamma
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Gmail analysis

Gmail is an email service provided by Google. A Gmail account is often asked for, though is not required, when the device is being set up for the first time.

Package name: com.google.android.gm

Files of interest:

  • /cache
  • /databases/:
    • mailstore.<username>@gmail.com.db
    • databases/suggestions.db
  • /shared_prefs/:
    • MailAppProvider.xml
    • Gmail.xml
    • UnifiedEmail.xml

The /cache directory within the application folder contains recent files that were attached to emails, both sent and received. These attachments are saved here even if they are not explicitly downloaded by the user.

The mailstore.<username>@gmail.com.db file contains a variety of useful information. Interesting tables within the database include:

Table

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ISBN: 9781789131017