Google Hangouts analysis
Hangouts is a chat/SMS application provided by Google. Hangouts is the default SMS client on Android devices.
Package name: com.google.android.gm
Version: Default version with Android 5.0.1 (not listed within the app)
Files of interest:
/cache/volleyCache/
/databases/babel#.db
(our device had babel0.db and babel1.db)/shared_prefs/accounts.xml
The cache
directory contains .0
files, as discussed in the Google Maps example earlier. The files contain a URL to fetch the profile pictures of contacts, as well as a .jpg
embedded within the file. Visiting the URL or carving the .jpg
from the file will recover the contact's picture.
The babel#.db
file contains all messaging data. On our test device, babel0.db
was blank, and babel1.db
had all of the data for the active account. There are many tables within this database worth looking at:
Table |
Description |
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|
This contains conversation data. There is a unique |