WeChat is a messaging app with over 100,000,000 downloads in the Play Store.
Package name: com.tencent.mm
Version: 6.0.2
Files of interest:
Note
Some of the following paths contain an asterisk (*). This is used to indicate a unique string that will differ for each account. Our device had 7f804fdbf79ba9e34e5359fc5df7f1eb
in place of the asterisk.
/files/host/*.getdns2
/shared_prefs/
com.tencent.mm_preferences.xml
system_config_prefs.xml
/sdcard/tencent/MicroMsg/
diskcache/
WeChat/
/sdcard/tencent/MicroMsg/*/
image2/
video/
voice2/
/MicroMsg/
CompatibleInfo.cfg
*/EnMicroMsg.db
The *.getdns2
files found in /files/host
can be opened as text files or in a hex editor. There is a section called [clientip
] that shows the IP address from which the user connected as well as the time of the connection in the Linux epoch format. Our device contained three of these files to show three different connections, though increased application usage may generate more than three of these...