App SKOUT on Android

What is it about?

HEy everyone, this post is about the app "SKOUT" on Android. It is a really short post just the basics I found while doing a quick analysis related to a case. And because my last post is a long while ago I decided to quickly share my results.

Part of the results in here were extracted from the published Android 10 image by @josh_hickman1. Kudos to him for his great work! (Source: https://thebinaryhick.blog/2020/02/15/android-10-image-now-available/)

SKOUT is a Social Network and the app offers features like chatting, meeting via video chat and broadcasting. More info can be found https://www.skout.com/ or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skout.android

Used App Version: 6.17.0

Used Android Version: 10

Where can the information be found?

Android path:

/data/data/com.skout.android

Used Account:

Here you can find the userid and the username:
shared_prefs/USERIDPREFS.xml

And here you can find the used mail address and the used password in clear text. (Yeah, really - clear text):
shared_prefs/LOGIN_PREFS.xml

Contacts:

The contacts can be found in the following database:

databases/skoutDatabase
Table: skoutUserTable

The timestamp stored for the last message of a user is in epoch milliseconds UTC.

Messages:

The messages can be found in the following database:

databases/skoutDatabase
Table: SkoutMessagesTable

The timestamps stored for the messages are in epoch milliseconds UTC.

Media Files:

I was not able to find the media files sent/received on the device. Some images are in the cache folder
cache/.cache/c1

But I was not able to map any of them to a message.

Additional Files/Info:

You can find the last logged location in the following file:

shared_prefs/LOCATION_PREFS.xml