WhatsApp Viewer
Small tool to display chats from the Android msgstore.db database.
How to use
- You need root access to your phone. If you don't know what it is: Wikipedia
- Download your WhatsApp database and key files:
- /data/data/com.whatsapp/files/key
- /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases/msgstore.db
- /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases/wa.db
- Open WhatsApp Viewer
- File -> Open -> Select file
- Select msgstore.db in the folder "extracted"
- Leave account name empty, is was used for older versions of WhatsApp (crypt5)
- Optional: If you want, you can import contact names from the wa.db file
Command line support
"WhatsApp Viewer.exe" -decrypt12 msgstore-2016-10-22.1.db.crypt12 whatsapp.cryptkey12 decrypted.db
You cannot see bigger images because only thumbnails are stored in the database.
Build (using Bazel)
# Replace with your Visual Studio installation directory
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64
# Unfortunately, I don't know a way to handle resource files inside the bazel script yet
rc.exe -fo resources\Resources.res resources\Resources.rc
bazel build //:whatsapp-viewer
Credits:
- TripCode for crypt12 support https://github.com/EliteAndroidApps/WhatsApp-Crypt12-Decrypter
- Whatsapp Xtract
- pwncrypt5.py https://github.com/aramosf/pwncrypt5/blob/master/pwncrypt5.py
- SQLite
- MD5 http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/md5-c-implementation/
- UTF8 http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/
- AES https://polarssl.org/aes-source-code
- Base64 http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/cpp/common/base64.html
- Zlib http://www.zlib.net/
- RapidJSON http://rapidjson.org/
- mbedtls https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls