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Extract all messages from SMS and WhatsApp (#337)

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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Some recent phones will enforce the utilisation of a password to encrypt the bac
## Unpack and check the backup
MVT includes a partial implementation of the Android Backup parsing, because of the implementation difference in the compression algorithm between Java and Python. The `-nocompress` option passed to adb in the section above allows to avoid this issue. You can analyse and extract SMSs containing links from the backup directly with MVT:
MVT includes a partial implementation of the Android Backup parsing, because of the implementation difference in the compression algorithm between Java and Python. The `-nocompress` option passed to adb in the section above allows to avoid this issue. You can analyse and extract SMSs from the backup directly with MVT:
```bash
$ mvt-android check-backup --output /path/to/results/ /path/to/backup.ab
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ $ mvt-android check-backup --output /path/to/results/ /path/to/backup.ab
INFO [mvt.android.modules.backup.sms] Running module SMS...
INFO [mvt.android.modules.backup.sms] Processing SMS backup file at
apps/com.android.providers.telephony/d_f/000000_sms_backup
INFO [mvt.android.modules.backup.sms] Extracted a total of 64 SMS messages containing links
INFO [mvt.android.modules.backup.sms] Extracted a total of 64 SMS messages
```
If the backup is encrypted, MVT will prompt you to enter the password.
@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ If the backup is encrypted, ABE will prompt you to enter the password.
Alternatively, [ab-decrypt](https://github.com/joernheissler/ab-decrypt) can be used for that purpose.
You can then extract SMSs containing links with MVT by passing the folder path as parameter instead of the `.ab` file: `mvt-android check-backup --output /path/to/results/ /path/to/backup/` (the path to backup given should be the folder containing the `apps` folder).
You can then extract SMSs with MVT by passing the folder path as parameter instead of the `.ab` file: `mvt-android check-backup --output /path/to/results/ /path/to/backup/` (the path to backup given should be the folder containing the `apps` folder).