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Setting up shell completion had nothing to do with the acquisition of one platform, yet it was a command of mvt-ios and mvt-android, each generating the script of the program it ran under only. Completion now leaves the platform CLIs for mvt, which emits one script covering mvt, mvt-ios and mvt-android, installed as a single file loaded when the shell starts. Click names the completion function of each program after the program, so the three scripts concatenate without colliding, and fish takes the file in conf.d rather than one named after a single command. With one script there is nothing left for the platform commands to generate, so their completion command goes, and with it the banner suppression which was keyed on the command name: mvt-ios and mvt-android now print the banner for every command they have. The long help line says which commands the completion covers, so a short_help keeps "mvt --help" from truncating it.
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Mobile Verification Toolkit
Important
We recently merged the "v3" branch. This introduced breaking changes. If you relied on mvt output in other scripts They might have broken. More details: https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt/issues/757
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.
Note
MVT is a forensic research tool intended for technologists and investigators. It requires understanding digital forensics and using command-line tools. This is not intended for end-user self-assessment. If you are concerned with the security of your device please seek reputable expert assistance.
Indicators of Compromise
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.
Warning
Public indicators of compromise are insufficient to determine that a device is "clean", and not targeted with a particular spyware tool. Reliance on public indicators alone can miss recent forensic traces and give a false sense of security.
Reliable and comprehensive digital forensic support and triage requires access to non-public indicators, research and threat intelligence.
Such support is available to civil society through Amnesty International's Security Lab or through our forensic partnership with Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline.
More information about using indicators of compromise with MVT is available in the documentation.
Installation
MVT can be installed from sources or from PyPI (you will need some dependencies, check the documentation):
pip3 install mvt
You can also install MVT from PyPI with uv. First, install uv:
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
Then install MVT as a command-line tool:
uv tool install mvt
For alternative installation options and known issues, please refer to the documentation as well as GitHub Issues.
Usage
MVT provides three commands: mvt-ios and mvt-android analyse acquisitions from devices of that platform, and mvt hosts what belongs to neither: version, completion and download-iocs (version and download-iocs remain available on the platform commands for now). Running mvt on its own shows the installed version, update notices and the available commands. Check out the documentation to learn how to use them!
Shell completion
MVT can generate a shell completion script for Bash, Zsh, and Fish which covers mvt, mvt-ios and mvt-android:
mvt completion
The command prints setup instructions by default. To generate the completion script directly, pass the shell name:
mvt completion bash
MVT only writes completion files or shell configuration when --install is passed. See the command completion documentation for details.
Module-running check-* commands can load custom Python modules with
--load-module PATH or from a folder set in MVT_CUSTOM_MODULES. See the
development documentation for
details.
Users can also add top-level commands to mvt, mvt-ios and mvt-android
from installed Python packages or local files and folders. See the
custom CLI command documentation
for the plugin entry points and --load-command interface.
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. In order to achieve this, MVT is released under its own license. Read more here.