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Flud - Torrent Downloader
Flud is a simple and beautiful BitTorrent client for Android. The power of BitTorrent protocol is now in the palm of your hands. Share files with ease from your phone/tablet. Download files directly to your phone/tablet.
Features :
* No speed limits on downloads/uploads
* Ability to select which files to download
* Ability to specify file/folder priorities
* RSS feed support with automatic downloading
* Magnet link support
* NAT-PMP, DHT, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support
* µTP (µTorrent Transport Protocol) , PeX (Peer Exchange) support
* Ability to download sequentially
* Ability to move files while downloading
* Supports torrents with large number of files
* Supports torrents with very big files (Note: 4GB is the limit for FAT32 formatted SD cards)
* Recognizes magnet links from the browser
* Encryption support, IP filtering support. Proxy Support for trackers and peers.
* Has option to download on WiFi only
* Ability to change theme (Light and Dark)
* Material design UI
* Tablet optimized UI
Many more features coming soon...
Note: On Android KitKat (Android 4.4), Google has removed the ability for apps to write to external SD card. This is not a bug in Flud. You can only download in folder Android/data/com.delphicoder.flud/ on your external SD on KitKat. Please note that that folder is deleted when Flud is uninstalled.
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We're happy to announce that the paid ad-free version of Flud is now available for download. Search for "Flud (Ad free)" in the Play Store.
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Privacy policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/49710596
Android torrentappskeep pertinent data in app defined folders and sqlite stores. Downloaded file access can be found in the history databases of the media player apps in use. Some example of that here. In the case of the "Flud - Torrent Dowloader" app the databases and directory locations of interest are as follows:
Flud SQLite databases:
- /userdata/data/com.delphicoder.flud/databases/suggestions.db
- Contains user typed searched terms.
- /userdata/data/com.delphicoder.flud/databases/torrents_db
- Keeps list of added and finished times per torrent.
- /media/0/Download
- Default location for downloaded files.
Long version:
A few days ago @TroySchnack tweeted his success in analyzing the Android artifacts generated by the uTorrent app using @XWaysSoftware.
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| Nice!!! Want to know more!!! |
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| Good stuff. |
Hardware and software used
Exemplar phone: Huawei Nexus 6P - Details here
Forensic image generation: Magnet Acquire 2.2.6.10966
Forensic image processing: Autopsy 4.6.0
SQlite viewer: SQLite Browser 3.10.1
Target software: Flud Torrent Downloader
Testing
First step was to download the Flud app. I decided to test it since it is one of the most popular apps for torrents at 10 million downloads. Next some torrents needed to be downloaded. I searched for the terms "cars" and "submarine" in the Flud search icon. The app would open a Chrome google search instance where the query was the joining of the user term with the word "torrent". For example if you search for "cars" the google query would be "cars torrent". All provided links in the google search were for torrents sites that are notorious for pirated content. To avoid this I searched for torrents to test at LegitTorrents.info.
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| No piracy thank you very much. |
It goes without saying that forensic imaging should only be done only on devices you own (like the one I used for this post), devices which you have consent for, or due to a search warrant in the case of law enforcement.
After imaging I tried to view the acquired file system using FTK Imager. It wouldn't let me access the contents of the "/data/" directory. I turned to Autopsy. It was able to access and parse the image no problem. Quickly too.
Torrent Location
Since the torrent file was downloaded using Chrome it was placed by default in the downloads folder. In my exemplar phone the path is "/media/0/Download". This directory is defined as emulated storage since my exemplar phone does not support SD card storage. For more details see here. It is also of note that the Chrome browser history will have data regarding the torrent downloaded.
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By default the app will place the downloaded files responsive to the torrent in the default download folder. The app has options to change those settings.
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| Know thyself. Know thy app. Know thyer (lol) app. |
Application Folder and Relevant Databases
The Flud app databases were located in the "/data/com.delphicoder.flud/databases/" directory.
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| Flud database folder. |
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| Date of term search? NIIIIICEEEE!!!! |
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| Suggestions as in, do you want to search this again? |
The second database of interest is the"torrents_db" database. It contains the torrent names, date added and date finished. The times are not in Unix time but in local time.
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| More dates. Nice! |
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| Files gone, entry in DB gone too. Sad. |
File Deletion and Recovery
So what is to be done when downloaded files from a torrent app are deleted? Traditional file recovery forensics are in order. The following are some suggestions to aid in the recovery of deleted data.
- Look for directories/files marked for deletion responsive to the relevant paths discussed above. For example Autopsy shows us a directory and a folder as deleted within the "Download" directory.
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| The red X marks the spot. |
- Locate the torrent file. This file has metadata regarding the files to be downloaded or already downloaded. The torrent file can be provided by the interested party in a torrent investigation or it can be found in allocated/unallocated space.
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| These ARE the terms you are looking for. |
- Use the terms in the torrent file, or terms provided by the interested party, to do an index search on the imaged media.
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| Highlighted terms are the search terms in question. |
- Look for results that might contains the searched terms or that the tool identifies as types of interested. Item that hits on both at the same time even better. In this analysis mp3 files were identified as types of interest as seen in the .torrent file above. In many torrent cases the types of interest are movies, images and documents that contain contraband images.
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| File carved by type. |
- Carved media files might contain internal metada which could be relevant to the case or that could have possibly mirrored information now lost to the file system like filename or title of media.
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| Player shows the song name per internal file metadata. File plays too. |
Take Aways and Thoughts
There are powerful free and open source tools that can aid you in your case work. If you are interested in learning about digital forensics the only cost is time and effort. Magnet Acquire is my go to imaging tool for research and Autopsy is quickly becoming one of my favorite tools for research analysis and validation. Price of $0. Some drawbacks from open source tools, like Troy mentions in his thread, are not as user friendly bookmarking/tagging options as well as difficult to understand tool reports.
Never forget that validation is key. Never assume or go with what seems to make sense by itself. Dig in and go with what the artifacts show. Test, test, test and test again. Ask someone to review. Test again.
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| Constant self-checks are in order. Me first. |
¡Gracias!
Flud
Flud was a social news reader application for iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. It was designed to display RSS feeds from blogs and news sites into individual streams for easy viewing. In Flud, articles and stories could be stored for later reading with the Reading List, shared as a favorite read with the Flud button, and shared with Facebook, Twitter, email, Tumblr, Instapaper, and ReadItLater.[1] Flud was headquartered in the historic Spreckels Theater Building in San Diego, California, with remote offices in Detroit and Chicago.
Flud had been tagged as "the first true social news reader"[2] where users could create a personal profile, follow others who share their interests, and become influencers to their followers by sharing content (known as Fluding).
For Fluding via the web, a bookmarklet was also available. A full web application had been under development.[citation needed]
On August 8, 2013, Flud was discontinued.[3]
Features[edit]
- Create a profile [1] to display profile image, username, followers, following, most read sources, number of Fluded and Reading List articles.
- Activity Feed [2] shows what a user's followers are reading and fluding.
- Add, reorder, edit category, or remove feeds.
- Pre-loaded featured feeds for adding and browsing.
- Connect to other users [3] with similar interests in news, blogs and topics.
- Flud [4] favorite articles.
- Most Fluded feed displays the articles most fluded by users.
- Connect to Tumblr, Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, Read It Later, Instapaper and email.
- Create a Reading List of interesting headlines.
- Access to Reading List when offline.
- Play video, view images, read stories.
- Account preferences transfer across devices.
History[edit]
Flud started as a secret sauce project in the summer of 2010 between Bobby Ghoshal and Matthew Ausonio, cofounders of Made By Rabbit, Inc., a startup out of San Diego, California. Flud 1.0 for the iPad hit the iOS App Store in August 2010 and was made available for the iPhone in the following months.
Soon after the initial launch of Flud 1.0, Fast Company distinguished Flud's iPad user interface as the "Best UI Design of 2010",[4] NBC called Flud the “future of news[5]” and Mashable distinguished Flud as 1 of 3 news readers actively changing and innovating the news industry.
Flud received $1 million in seed funding in April 2011 and became available on Android mobile devices in August 2011.[6]
In December 2011, Flud 2.0 hit the App Store as a new type of social news reader, allowing users to create their own news personalities and become a trusted source on topical interests. Major changes included the addition of social features, an updated user interface design, and Tumblr support. Flud 2.0 launched on Windows Phone and Android devices in March 2012.
On August 8, 2013, the Flud service was discontinued.[3] Users had until that date to download all their data.
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