Copying SAM and SYSTEM hives (Or locked files) from a running system by directly dumping sectors.

My Kali installation did not have a copy of fgdump.exe, therefore while googling to download fgdump utility for a friend who is currently doing PWB from offensive security,  I stumbled upon a post which mentioned about dumping the sectors occupied by a file in order to copy a locked file from file system.

Thanks to my fat fingers.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/32169/FDump-Dumping-File-Sectors-Directly-from-Disk-usin

One needs to have administrative privileges on system in order to achieve this but using this, the local SAM and SYSTEM hive can be copied from a running system without a need to reboot the system using linux bootable cd to free file locks.

The author Armen Hakobyan explains the implementation nicely with all the source codes listed. The list also holds a precompiled binary for 32 bit OS which is compatible with windows 7 as a demo project. 64 bit version can be compiled from sources.

Fdump-demo.exe binary in action.

FDUMP in Action.

Double Query Injections: Writeup

DOUBLE QUERY SQL INJECTIONS OR SUBQUERY SQL INJECTIONS

Continuing from my last writeup, discussing about the basics of SQL INJECTIONS, its classifications, and how to approach them during a pen test, in this article I have tried to cover the concepts of double query injections. What they are and how they work behind the scene for MYSQL database.

You can follow up the article at infosec institute site at following link http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/double-query-injections-demystified/

Less-5 and Less-6 are discussed in this writeup.

the first part of the series can be accessed at http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/sql-injections-introduction/

more writeups to follow......