SqlNinja 0.2.3 released

It is released under the GPLv2 and it has been featured on SecurityHack’s Top 15 Free SQL Injection Scanners, which is a good result for something that started as a small script written on-the-fly during a pen-test.

Here’s a list of what the Ninja does:

 Fingerprint of the remote SQL Server (version, user performing the queries, user privileges, xp_cmdshell availability, DB authentication mode)
 Bruteforce of ’sa’ password (in 2 flavors: dictionary-based and incremental)
 Privilege escalation to sysadmin group if ’sa’ password has been found
 Creation of a custom xp_cmdshell if the original one has been removed
 Upload of netcat (or any other executable) using only normal HTTP requests (no FTP/TFTP needed)
 TCP/UDP portscan from the target SQL Server to the attacking machine, in order to find a port that is allowed by the firewall of the target network and use it for a reverse shell
 Direct and reverse bindshell, both TCP and UDP
 DNS-tunneled pseudo-shell, when no TCP/UDP ports are available for a direct/reverse shell, but the DB server can resolve external hostnames (check the documentation for details about how this works)
 Evasion techniques to confuse a few IDS/IPS/WAF
 Integration with Metasploit3, to obtain a graphical access to the remote DB server through a VNC server injection