Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
Chat applications
Chat applications are among the most common applications on the market. These applications provide users with the ability to chat outside the standard SMS services offered by the network service provider and device, and are sometimes more secure. By secure, we mean that the apps may offer encryption, private profiles, private group chats, and more. Additionally, these apps enable the user to message others without the need for a data plan, as Wi-Fi provides all the access that they need. Tango, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, and Snapchat are some of the more popular applications.
Parsing artifacts from chat applications is not always simple. Often, multiple tools and methods will be required to extract all of the data ...
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