We have featured some other database-fingerprinting tools before such as SQLmap the automated SQL injection tool, which also carries out fingerprinting and the Microsoft SQL Server Fingerprint Tool aimed specifically at MS-SQL installs similar to ESF.

The Exploit Next Generation SQL Fingerprint (ESF) is a powerful tool which performs version fingerprinting for:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000;
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005; and
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

The Exploit Next Generation SQL Fingerprint uses well-known techniques based on several public tools that are capable to identify the Microsoft SQL Server version (such as: SQLping and SQLver), but, instead of showing only the “raw version” (i.e., Microsoft SQL Version 10.00.2746), the Exploit Next Generation SQL Fingerprint shows the mapped Microsoft SQL Server version (i.e., Microsoft SQL 2008 SP1 (CU5)).

The strengths of Exploit Next Generation SQL Fingerprint are:

• It uses both TCP and UDP protocols to determine the Microsoft SQL Server version, making it much more reliable than any other public or commercial tool.
• It is capable to identify multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances and their TCP communication ports.
• It does not require any authentication method to identify the Microsoft SQL Server version.
• It uses probabilistic algorithm to identify the Microsoft SQL Server version, combining both TCP and UDP fingerprint.

The Exploit Next Generation SQL Fingerprint can also be used to identify vulnerable/unpatched Microsoft SQL Server version, and it is based on some techniques used by Exploit Next Generation Compliance Methodology to perform automated penetration testing.

SQL Server fingerprinting is necessary before performing any kind of penetration testing on database server and if you find its Microsoft SQL Server then this tool will surely help identifying granular level findings to further exploit database.

You can download ESF v1.10 here:

ESF.exe

Or read more here.

This is a tool that performs version fingerprinting on Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, using well known techniques based on several public tools that identifies the SQL Version. The strength of this tool is that it uses probabilistic algorithm to identify the version of the Microsoft SQL Server.

The “Microsoft SQL Server Fingerprint Tool” can also be used to identify vulnerable versions of Microsoft SQL Server – it is based on some techniques used by Exploit Next GenerationTM to perform automated penetration test.

This is a very new tool and is in the BETA stage, so please do download it, try it out and give some feedback to the author.

You can download mssqlfp here:

mssqlfp-BETA4.exe

Or read more here.

Features

• Full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server database management system back-end.
• Can also identify Microsoft Access, DB2, Informix and Sybase;
• Extensive database management system back-end fingerprint based upon:
• - Inband DBMS error messages
• – DBMS banner parsing
• – DBMS functions output comparison
• – DBMS specific features such as MySQL comment injection
• – Passive SQL injection fuzzing
• It fully supports two SQL injection techniques:
• – Blind SQL injection, also known as Inference SQL injection
• – Inband SQL injection, also known as UNION query SQL injection

You can find the documentation here:

sqlmap README (HTML and PDF)

You can download sqlmap 0.5 here:

sqlmap-0.5 (tar/zip)

Or read more here.