[sqlmap-users] Data dump gives me garbage values

[Bruno F. <ch...@ch...>]

Hello everyone,

I just started using sqlmap and it detects basic stuff fine so far
(database, operative system, php version, ...) but when it comes to
retrieving information I get a lot of garbage that I can't make sense of.
An example of this 'garbage text' can be seen in the attached screenshot.

For those wondering, this is for a security challenge (that is one of many
things that happened as part of the computer science week in the
university) and my final goal is to be able to list files in the server
(and if they are out of the www folder, I should still be able to read them
somehow).

But my question is about all those strange characters that can be seen in
the attached picture and how to convert them to something useful.

Thank you.

Bruno Ferreira