Small tool to display chats from the Android WhatsApp database.

1. You need root access to your phone, at least for get the key. If you don't know what it is: Wikipedia
2. 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

3. Open WhatsApp Viewer
4. If you aren't root but you have your key file, you can try to use your encrypted database from /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases/mgstore.db.crypt*, and in Whatsapp Viewer, go to File -> Decrypt (your database extension) and follow the steps
5. File -> Open -> Select file
6. Select msgstore.db in the folder "extracted"
7. Leave account name empty, is was used for older versions of WhatsApp (crypt5)
8. Optional: If you want, you can import contact names from the wa.db file

"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.

• 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
• Visual Leak Detector https://kinddragon.github.io/vld/

• Andreas-mausch
• zmeyc