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Learning Android Forensics

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Learning Android Forensics

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Android Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Facebook Messenger analysis


Facebook Messenger is a messaging app separate from the main Facebook application. It has over 500,000,000 downloads in the Play Store.

Package name: com.facebook.orca

Version: 18.0.0.27.14

Files of interest:

  • /cache/

    • audio/

    • fb_temp/

    • image/

  • /sdcard/com.facebook.orca

  • /files/ rti.mqtt.analytics.xml

  • /databases/

    • call_log.sqlite

    • contacts_db2

    • prefs_db

    • threads_db2

The /cache/audio directory contains audio messages sent through the application. The files have a .cnt file extension, but are actually .riff files that can be played with Windows Media Player, VLC media player, and other programs.

The /cache/fb_temp path contains temp files for images and video sent through the application. It is unclear how long these files will remain. In our testing, we sent and received a total of five files, and all five were still in the temp folder one week later.

The /cache/image directory contains a multitude of other directories (33 on our test phone), and each directory can...