mvt-project/mvt

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps with conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise.

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[](https://pypi.org/project/mvt/) [](https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/?badge=latest) [](https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt/actions/workflows/tests.yml) [](https://pepy.tech/project/mvt) 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. It continues to be maintained by Amnesty International and other contributors. MVT supports using public indicators of compromise (IOCs) to scan mobile devices for potential traces of targeting or infection by known spyware campaigns. This includes IOCs published by Amnesty International and other research groups. More information about using indicators of compromise with MVT is available in the documentation. MVT can be installed from sources or from PyPI (you will need some dependencies, check the documentation): You can also install MVT from PyPI with uv. First, install uv:…

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  1. Mobile Verification Toolkit
  2. Indicators of Compromise
  3. Installation
  4. Usage
  5. Shell completion
  6. License

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MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps with conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise.

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Python
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Created
2021-07-16T05:50:44.000Z
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