NAME : MAHIN SABA MOHAMMAD EJAZ

Class : BE-A

Subject : Cyber Security Lab

Roll No : 57

Aim: Study of Database Assessment Tools in Kali Linux

Sqlmap

sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It 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.

it Supports to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, by providing DBMS credentials, IP address, port and database name and 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.

To open sqlmap

Step 1 − To open sqlmap, go to Applications → 04-Database Assessment → sqlmap.

Step 2 − To start the sql injection testing, type “sqlmap – u URL of victim”

Step 3 − From the results, you will see that some variable are vulnerable.

References:

1. https://tools.kali.org/vulnerability-analysis/sqlmap

2. https://sqlmap.org/

3. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/kali_linux/index.html