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MITS - 5004 IT Security
Introduction of the tool
SqlMap is a Kali Linux tool to find out vulnerability using SQL injection into the website. An SQL injection is a code technique which attacker perform on the website. SqlMap is an open source tool to find out the vulnerability inthe database and get access tothe database and retrieve data from it. First SqlMap detects the vulnerability in SQL Database and then exploit it using SQL malicious queries. First, we need to find out the vulnerable website and then using Kali Linux tool we can perform the experiment. SqlMap uses with kali Linux in the terminal, and it is in built tool when we install kali Linux.
Kali Linux is an open source operating system which used of penetration testing and finding vulnerability into system or network using different tools. It provides various types of tools to perform testing. The most know tools are SqlMap, Nmap, Burp suite, Metaslpoit framework. SqlMap is a tool which use SQL Injection method to find out vulnerability into the website and backend works on databases. Kali Linux is a tool which uses Linux distribution, we can install Kali Linux on the virtualized environment to perform testing. To install Kali Linux need to download from its official website and then install in Virtual Machine. (Sinha, 2018, p. xx)