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Advanced sqlmap features – eval

July 21st, 2014 / / 0 Comments

I was always sad when I couldn’t use sqlmap when the injection was not very simple. Of course I always expected that to be my fault, that I didn’t spent enough time to configure sqlmap properly. So the other day when I tested an application and found an sql injection which was a pain in the neck to exploit manually, I rolled up my sleeves and started to look at source code of sqlmap to figure out some parameters which I never knew what they did. This blog post is about the --eval parameter which allows you to manipulate the requests before sending them.
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Stack Adjustment by hand

June 23rd, 2013 / / 2 Comments

When you are developing an exploit and you have very limited space for your payload you might need to adjust the stack to be able to use staged exploits. The problem, in case of a multi-stage payload, is that when the first stage that you send in your exploit payload starts to download the second stage, the stack pointer (ESP) might point to a place which is not far enough from the first stage in the memory; hence, the second stage might corrupt the code that you are executing. Stack adjustment is a technique that tries to solve this problem by setting the ESP to create more space for the second stage.
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