January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
10h 6m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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WhatsApp Android app analysis
WhatsApp is the most popular chat (audio and video) messaging service, and is used by more than a billion people across the globe. It stores the information under the /data/data folder, with the package name com.whatsapp. The following is an overview of the important files that are of interest from a forensic perspective:
- User's profile pic: The user's profile picture is saved with the filename me.jpg and is present under the following path:
- Path: /data/data/com.whatsapp/me.jpg
- User's phone number (associated with WhatsApp): The me file present under the main folder contains the phone number that is associated with the user's WhatsApp account. Note that this may or may not be the phone number that is associated ...