Hacking website with Havij

Havij is an automated SQL Injection tool that helps penetration testers to find and exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web page.

It can take advantage of a vulnerable web application. By using this software user can perform back-end database fingerprint, retrieve DBMS users and  password hashes, dump tables and columns, fetching data from the database, running SQL  statements and even accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the  operating system.

Preparation :

• Download Free edition fromHavij (In the same page, you can see the difference between free and professional edition). It is matter of what your target is.
• Now you google with below options to find websites  vulnerable for targetting SQL Injection with Havij

                 inurl:index.php?id=
                 inurl:article.php?id=

Once you choose a website, type ‘ at the end like shown below and press enter. If you get an error, then the website is vulnerable to SQL Injection. 

http://www.hackinvasion/site/content.php?vn=3&id=77′

1. Retrieve DB Information:

Copy and paste the target url in ‘Target’ column and click ‘Analyze’

                           

Once Havij is successful in retrieving DB name, it will stop and you can see the database details either at the log window or ‘Info’ option. Havij will retrieve Web Server Type (Apache, IIS or other), DB Type (My SQL, MS SQL or other) and DB Name

Once this is successful, you can make sure that you are in right path i.e; your target is vulnerable to SQL Injection Attack

2. Retrieve Tables:

Now you need to retrieve all table that contains user name and password to login to the website. Choose the db and Click ‘Get Tables’ option.

                                 

Here you go, now all the tables are retrieved from DB. You can either wait till it retrieves all the tables or you can just stop the top when you see any suspected table like one below. I stopped the processing when Havij found a table that I suspected to be containing user names and passwords for the website.
                                    

3. Retrieve Table Columns:

Before you start retrieving data of a specific table, you need to get the columns. So mark the suspected password table and click ‘Get Columns’ 

I am really sorry for marking all website specific details with red mark, I must do that to safeguard.

  

4. Retrieve User name and Password:

You are at final stage of hacking . Mark the database, table and columns to be retrieved and you have option of retrieving only one row. Choose ‘Get Data’  to let Havij give you member access to the site.

I am done now, luckily my target website didn’t store passwords encrypted and I have their website’s admin password. That’s it!

 If the password is encrypted, Havij has inbuilt MD5 option where you can specify the MD5 hash to be cracked.  Havij will look for hash in several sites in mul thread mode and displays the result.