* Run bugreport and backup modules during check-androidqf
Adding support to automatically run ADB backup and bugreport modules
automatically when running the check-androidqf command. This is a first
step to deduplicate the code for Android modules.
* Deduplicate modules which are run by the sub-commands.
* Raise the proper NoAndroidQFBackup exception when a back-up isn't found
* Remove check-adb command and update docs
* Remove check-apk code and old dependencies
* Major refactor to add structured alerting and typed indicators
This commit makes a structural change to MVT by changing binary
detected/not detected logic into a structured multi-level system
of alerts. This gives far more power to extend MVT and manage
alerts.
This commit also begins the process of adding proper typing for
key objects used in MVT including Indicators, IndicatorMatches,
and ModuleResults. This will also be keep to programmatically using
the output of MVT.
* Fix up, remove ADB module base
* Rework old detections tracking into stuctured alert levels
* Quote STIX path in log line
* Fix profile events log line
* Close open archive (zip/tar) file handles
* Fix root_binaries and mounts modules to use alertstore
* Update tests to use alertstore instead of detected attribute
* Fix alertstore method calls - use high() instead of warning()
* Fix remaining test errors
- Add log_latest() call in root_binaries to log each alert
- Fix UnboundLocalError in cmd_check_androidqf by initializing bugreport variable
- Remove incorrect backup.close() call since load_backup() returns bytes
- Remove duplicate from_ab method in cmd_check_backup that was using old attributes
* Log alerts on add
* Remove slug from alertstore calls
* update alerts.py
* update alerts.py
* move indicator_match to alert object
* .
* - Remove timeline_detected and route to alertstore
* fix typing for mypy
* Remove unused type imports
* Fix check_receiver_prefix and check_android_property_name
- check_receiver_prefix() used dict syntax (ioc["value"]) on Indicator
dataclass objects from get_iocs(). Changed to ioc.value/ioc.name.
- check_receiver_prefix() returned raw ioc instead of IndicatorMatch.
Now returns IndicatorMatch with descriptive message.
- Fixed return type annotations on both methods to Optional[IndicatorMatch].
- Removed unused Union import.
* Fix residual self.detected usage in packages and dumpsys_receivers
These modules still used self.detected.append() which no longer exists
after the alertstore migration. Converted to alertstore calls:
- packages.py: ROOT_PACKAGES detection → alertstore.high()
- dumpsys_receivers.py: receiver IOC match → alertstore.critical()
* Fix SMS module alertstore.high() call passing slug as message
The first argument was self.get_slug() (module slug) instead of a
human-readable message. The module is already auto-detected via
AlertStore._get_calling_module(). Also removed redundant log_latest().
* Apply suggestions from code review
Fix JSON serialization in `module.save_to_json` and fix argument order in iOS alertstore calls.
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* Remove unsupported ADB modules
* Fail removed check-adb command
* Fix alert serialization and logging
* Close sqlite connections in iOS modules
* Fix DEBUG messages not reaching handlers, save_to_json for dictionary results and TypeError on mixed event_time types in safary_history
* add matched_indicator via alertstore instead of directly modifying json objects
* Alert on battery daily uninstall and downgrade
* Lower alert severity to medium for suspicious items
* Switch version to 2026.4.28 CalVer
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Co-authored-by: Donncha Ó Cearbhaill <donncha.ocearbhaill@amnesty.org>
Co-authored-by: tes <tesitura@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Janik Besendorf <janik.besendorf@reporter-ohne-grenzen.de>
* Abort analysis and warn user when backup is encrypted
When `check-backup` is run against an encrypted backup, Manifest.db
cannot be opened as a plain SQLite database. Previously this caused
a flood of confusing "file is not a database" errors across all modules.
Now the Manifest module detects the sqlite3.DatabaseError on its first
query and raises a new EncryptedBackupError. This exception propagates
out of run_module() and is caught in Command.run(), which logs a clear
critical message instructing the user to decrypt the backup first with
`mvt-ios decrypt-backup`, then stops the analysis immediately.
Fixes#769
* Fix ruff F821: use self.log instead of undefined log
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Co-authored-by: Janik Besendorf <janik.besendorf@reporter-ohne-grenzen.de>
* Fix betterproto2 migration: update generated proto code and callers
The dependency switch from betterproto to betterproto2 was incomplete.
This updates all affected files to use the betterproto2 API:
- tombstone.py: rewrite generated code to use betterproto2.field() with
explicit TYPE_* constants, repeated/optional/group flags, and map_meta()
for map fields
- tombstone_crashes.py: update import and fix to_dict() call to use
keyword-only casing= argument required by betterproto2
- pyproject.toml: replace betterproto[compiler] dev dep with betterproto2-compiler
- Makefile: update protoc plugin flag to --python_betterproto2_out
* Fix STIX2 hash key parsing to accept spec-compliant algorithm names
The STIX2 specification requires single quotes around hash algorithm
names that contain hyphens (e.g. file:hashes.'SHA-256'). MVT only
accepted a non-standard lowercase form (file:hashes.sha256), silently
dropping any indicators using the spec-correct spelling.
Normalize hash algorithm keys in _process_indicator by stripping quotes
and hyphens from the algorithm portion before matching, so all of the
following are accepted for SHA-256, SHA-1 and MD5:
file:hashes.'SHA-256' (STIX2 spec)
file:hashes.SHA-256
file:hashes.SHA256
file:hashes.sha256 (previously the only accepted form)
The same normalization is applied to app:cert.* keys.
Update generate_stix.py to use the spec-compliant quoted forms, and add
test_parse_stix2_hash_key_variants to cover all spelling variants.
The dependency switch from betterproto to betterproto2 was incomplete.
This updates all affected files to use the betterproto2 API:
- tombstone.py: rewrite generated code to use betterproto2.field() with
explicit TYPE_* constants, repeated/optional/group flags, and map_meta()
for map fields
- tombstone_crashes.py: update import and fix to_dict() call to use
keyword-only casing= argument required by betterproto2
- pyproject.toml: replace betterproto[compiler] dev dep with betterproto2-compiler
- Makefile: update protoc plugin flag to --python_betterproto2_out
* receiver names are checked if a known malicious app id is a substring
* ruff syntax fixes
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Co-authored-by: Viktor <vik@tor.me>
Co-authored-by: besendorf <janik@besendorf.org>
* Run bugreport and backup modules during check-androidqf
Adding support to automatically run ADB backup and bugreport modules
automatically when running the check-androidqf command. This is a first
step to deduplicate the code for Android modules.
* Deduplicate modules which are run by the sub-commands.
* Raise the proper NoAndroidQFBackup exception when a back-up isn't found
* add missing import
* Fix imports and remove duplicate hashes param
* Rename from_folder to from_dir in tests
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Co-authored-by: besendorf <janik@besendorf.org>
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