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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Skype Android app analysis
Skype is an app that offers video chat and voice call services. The application's data is stored under the /data/data folder, with the package name com.skype.raider. The following are important artifacts that can be extracted by analyzing the Skype app:
- Username and IP address: The shared.xml file present under the following path contains information about the username and the last IP address that connected to Skype:
- Path: /data/data/com.skype.raider/files/shared.xml
- Profile picture: The user's profile picture is present in the /thumbnails directory, whose path is as follows:
- Path: /data/data/com.skype.raider/files/<username>/thumbnails/
- Call logs: Information about call logs made from Skype is available ...