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Investigating Android Yandex Mail

07/07/2023 Friday

Yandex Mail is an email service provider which provides its mailing services for free and it has been developed by a Russian company. This email service comes with a built-in translator as well as an antivirus protector and a spam blocker. It also provides its users with 5 GB of free cloud storage on its disk. Yandex Mail is considered to be one of the three largest email service providers in Runet.

Digital Forensics Value of Android Yandex Mail


Nowadays, email can be considered to be one of the most important modes of communication. Almost every person in the world is a technology user and every technology user has to have an email account. Therefore, analyzing the left-behind artifacts by an email service provider is a key tool that helps in tracking the outlaws.


Location of Android Yandex Mail Artifacts


Android Yandex Mail artifacts can be found at the following locations:
ru.yandex.mail /databases/accounts2.db
ru.yandex.mail /databases/PassportInternal.db
ru.yandex.mail /databases/account_%User Email Address%_nano.db
ru.yandex.mail /databases/ fts_%10-digits User ID%
ru.yandex.mail /cache/avatar/


Analyzing Android Yandex Mail Artifacts with ArtiFast

This section will discuss how to use ArtiFast to extract Android Yandex Mail artifacts from Android machines files and what kind of digital forensics insights we can gain from the artifacts.

After you have created your case and added evidence for the investigation, at the Artifact Selection phase, you can select Android Yandex Mail artifacts:






Once ArtiFast parser plugins complete processing the artifact for analysis, it can be reviewed via “Artifact View” or “Timeline View,” with indexing, filtering, and searching capabilities. Below is a detailed description of Android Yandex Mail artifacts in ArtiFast.


Yandex Mail Accounts

Yandex Mail Attachment

Yandex Mail Contacts

Yandex Mail Emails

Yandex Mail Attachment Pictures

Yandex Mail Profile Pictures



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