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failed to process resources.arsc #4453

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@philipsoutham

Hello, i have face an issue while scanning APK files of company such as Spotify and i encounter the following error

TruffleHog failed with return code 1
{"level":"info-0","ts":"2025-09-06T15:46:56-07:00","logger":"trufflehog","msg":"Setting detector timeout","timeout":"10m0s"}
{"level":"info-0","ts":"2025-09-06T15:46:56-07:00","logger":"trufflehog","msg":"running source","source_manager_worker_id":"9bufa","with_units":true}
{"level":"error","ts":"2025-09-06T15:46:57-07:00","logger":"trufflehog","msg":"failed to process resources.arsc","source_manager_worker_id":"9bufa","unit_kind":"unit","unit":"anchor.apk","path":"anchor.apk","mime":"application/vnd.android.package-archive","timeout":600,"error":"failed to parse strings from resources.arsc: Unknown resource data type"}

I think its facing some issues while decoding certain strings , can you please further clarify what this issue is and how to avoid it

Note : I am using the latest version of trufflehog as of now

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