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 ...
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