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Learning Android Forensics

You're reading from   Learning Android Forensics A hands-on guide to Android forensics, from setting up the forensic workstation to analyzing key forensic artifacts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782174578
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing Android Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up an Android Forensic Environment 3. Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices 4. Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices 5. Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices 6. Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device 7. Forensic Analysis of Android Applications 8. Android Forensic Tools Overview Index

Tango analysis


Tango is a voice-/text-/video-messaging application. It has over 100,000,000 downloads in the Play Store.

Package name: com.sgiggle.production

Note

This package name is seemingly innocuous and could be overlooked by an examiner thinking it was a game. This is an example of why every application should be analyzed.

Version: 3.13.128111

Files of interest:

  • /sdcard/Android/data/com.sgiggle.production/files/storage/appdata/

    • TCStorageManagerMediaCache_v2/

    • conv_msg_tab_snapshots/

  • /files/

    • tc.db

    • userinfo.xml.db

The /TCStorageManagerMediaCache_v2 path on the SD card contains images that were sent and received with the application as well as profile pictures of contacts. However, it also contains many images that were never seen or used in the application. They appear to either be images for ads or stock emoji-type images that can be attached to conversations. The filenames found here can be correlated with tc.db to find the exact image that was used in a conversation.

The conv_msg_tab_snapshots...

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