What is “sqlmap” Package?

sqlmap is a Penetration testing tool for finding SQL injection flaws. sqlmap  comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections. sqlmap is an open source software that is used to detect and exploit database vulnerabilities and provides options for injecting malicious codes into them. sqlmap tests whether a ‘GET’ parameter is vulnerable to SQL Injection. sqlmap comes pre – installed with kali linux, which is the preferred choice of most penetration testers. However, you can install sqlmap on other debian based linux systems using the command which is shown in this post. In addition to mapping and detecting vulnerabilities, the sqlmap enables access to the database, editing and deleting data, and viewing data in tables such as users, passwords, backups, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, credit cards and other confidential and sensitive information. In this post you will learn to install sqlmap on Mac using brew. For more details: http://sqlmap.org

Installation

• Open Terminal by pressing command+space then type terminal and hit Enter key.
• Install homebrew first.

  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

• Install sqlmap.

  brew install sqlmap

Now, use sqlmap!

Features:

• Support for varieties of databases like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, IBM DB2, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase, SAP MaxDB, Informix, HSQLDB and H2.
• It gives  support for six SQL injection techniques: boolean-based blind, time-based blind, error-based, UNION query-based, stacked queries and out-of-band.
• Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, by providing DBMS credentials, IP address, port and database name.
• Support to enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, roles, databases, tables and columns.
• Automatic recognition of password hash formats and support for cracking them using a dictionary-based attack.
• Support to dump database tables entirely, a range of entries or specific columns as per user’s choice. The user can also choose to dump only a range of characters from each column’s entry.
• Support to search for specific database names, specific tables across all databases or specific columns across all database’s tables. This is useful, for instance, to identify tables containing custom application credentials where relevant columns’ names contain string like name and pass.
• Support to download and upload any file from the database server underlying file system when the database software is MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Support to execute arbitrary commands and retrieve their standard output on the database server underlying operating system when the database software is MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Support to establish an out-of-band stateful TCP connection between the attacker machine and the database server underlying operating system. This channel can be an interactive command prompt, a Meterpreter session or a graphical user interface (VNC) session as per user’s choice.
• Support for database process’ user privilege escalation via Metasploit’s Meterpreter getsystem command.