Skip to main content

Mobile Verification Toolkit

Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) is a collection of utilities to simplify and automate the process of gathering forensic traces helpful to identify a potential compromise of Android and iOS devices.

It has been developed and released by the Amnesty International Security Lab in July 2021 in the context of the Pegasus project along with a technical forensic methodology and forensic evidences.

Warning: this tool has been released as a forensic tool for a technical audience. Using it requires some technical skills such as understanding basics of forensic analysis and using command line tools.

Please check out the documentation.

Installation

MVT can be installed from sources or conveniently using:

pip3 install mvt.

You will need some dependencies, so please check the documentation.

Alternatively, you can decide to run MVT and all relevant tools through a Docker container

Usage

MVT provides two commands mvt-ios and mvt-android with the following subcommands available:

  • mvt-ios:
    • check-backup: Extract artifacts from an iTunes backup
    • check-fs: Extract artifacts from a full filesystem dump
    • check-iocs: Compare stored JSON results to provided indicators
    • decrypt-backup: Decrypt an encrypted iTunes backup
  • mvt-android:
    • check-backup: Check an Android Backup
    • download-apks: Download all or non-safelisted installed APKs

Check out the documentation to see how to use them.

License

The purpose of MVT is to facilitate the consensual forensic analysis of devices of those who might be targets of sophisticated mobile spyware attacks, especially members of civil society and marginalized communities. We do not want MVT to enable privacy violations of non-consenting individuals. Therefore, the goal of this license is to prohibit the use of MVT (and any other software licensed the same) for the purpose of adversarial forensics.

In order to achieve this, MVT is released under an adaptation of Mozilla Public License v2.0. This modified license includes a new clause 3.0, "Consensual Use Restriction" which permits the use of the licensed software (and any "Larger Work" derived from it) exclusively with the explicit consent of the person/s whose data is being extracted and/or analysed ("Data Owner").

Read the LICENSE

Metadata

Release files for mvt 1.0.12

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for mvt 1.0.12
File Size Uploaded
mvt-1.0.12.tar.gz 43.0 kB Details

Built distribution (wheel)

Table of built distributions (wheels) for mvt 1.0.12
File Interpreter ABI Platform
mvt-1.0.12-py3-none-any.whl Python 3 none any Details

Total release size: 196.5 kB

Release files / mvt-1.0.12.tar.gz

Download URL mvt-1.0.12.tar.gz
Size 43.0 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
c486006564b0c593cb5309891c5f33f042c556844bb695c0dbecfcf0e8de48cc
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
673c0181737310f0493201190a5a6053e0952a1934801d01c7d0ff85de8e7de5
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/3.4.2 importlib_metadata/4.6.1 pkginfo/1.7.1 requests/2.26.0 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.61.2 CPython/3.9.2

Release files / mvt-1.0.12-py3-none-any.whl

Download URL mvt-1.0.12-py3-none-any.whl
Size 153.5 kB
Tags Python 3
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
a3b7d0bc4aecb4163220e4a41cea5cfe7e68de0a5216a928175c1162d2a0bcff
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
b7d474a968c963de6dd95aa145d2e2d16c69055967b73c773a40a08deba2d9da
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/3.4.2 importlib_metadata/4.6.1 pkginfo/1.7.1 requests/2.26.0 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.61.2 CPython/3.9.2

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

2.7.0

2 release files

2.6.1

2 release files

2.6.0

2 release files

2.5.4

2 release files

2.5.3

2 release files

2.5.2

2 release files

2.5.1

2 release files

2.5.0

2 release files

2.4.5

2 release files

2.4.4

2 release files

2.4.3

2 release files

2.4.2

2 release files

2.4.1

2 release files

2.4.0

2 release files

2.3.0

2 release files

2.2.6

2 release files

2.2.5

2 release files

2.2.4

2 release files

2.2.3

2 release files

2.2.2

2 release files

2.2.1

2 release files

2.2

2 release files

2.1.6

2 release files

2.1.5

2 release files

2.1.4

2 release files

2.1.3

2 release files

2.1.2

2 release files

2.1.1

2 release files

2.1

2 release files

2.0.1

2 release files

2.0

2 release files

1.5.5

2 release files

1.5.4

2 release files

1.5.3

2 release files

1.5.2

2 release files

1.5.1

2 release files

1.4.9

2 release files

1.4.8

2 release files

1.4.7

2 release files

1.4.6

2 release files

1.4.5

2 release files

1.4.4

2 release files

1.4.3

2 release files

1.4.2

2 release files

1.4.1

2 release files

1.4.0

2 release files

1.2.14

2 release files

1.2.13

2 release files

1.2.12

2 release files

1.2.11

2 release files

1.2.10

2 release files

1.2.9

2 release files

1.2.8

2 release files

1.2.7

2 release files

1.2.6

2 release files

1.2.5

2 release files

1.2.4

2 release files

1.2.3

2 release files

1.2.2

2 release files

1.2.1

2 release files

1.2.0

2 release files

1.1.1

2 release files

1.1.0

2 release files

1.0.14

2 release files

1.0.13

2 release files

This release

1.0.12 This release

2 release files

1.0.11

2 release files

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page