Questions tagged [proxychains]
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nmap does not work through proxychains
Despite the already existing answers about this topic, I am still unable to use nmap through proxychains. I would like to scan the port 80 of a machine I can connect using SSH. To do so, I enabled ...
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Double pivoting - proxychains.conf - why should I use 2 entries?
I am studying pivoting and I had a question related to double pivoting. Reading various blogs, I read that it is a common (but not always used) practice to define two entries in the /etc/proxychains....
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Proxychains fails but foxyproxy works?
Here's a proxy problem I am trying to understand. There's a http squid proxy in 192.168.215.189:3128 . No other ports of the specified IP is exposed externally. I created a foxyproxy proxy and used ...
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Run Responder using proxychains on a remote network
Is it possible to run Responder as a flag in the proxychains program when I do some penetration testing activities, such as nmap and crackmapexec in the enumeration process? Responder command example :...
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does Nmap automatically use proxychains if configured?
I have configured my proxy chains in /etc/proxychains.conf. Then when just run nmap or even nc without the proxychains prefix, it automatically uses the proxy chains and routes the traffic through the ...
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False positives (port scanning) when using proxychains-ng with nmap [closed]
I get false positive ports that are marked open when using nmap with proxychains-ng (Using a proxy list that contains socks5 proxies). I've tried a couple of techniques to debug this strange behavior (...
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What’s the point in using proxychains for an nmap scan when you could use Tor?
I always hear on YouTube and other places on the internet that Tor is the best option to stay anonymous. Tor is used by many activists, journalists etc. hiding from oppressive governments and so on. ...
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call http-webpage in local browser, where the webserver is only reachable through proxychains (as it sits in a different network)
I have the following proxychains.conf [...] [ProxyList] # add proxy here ... # meanwile # defaults set to "tor" #socks4 127.0.0.1 9050 # <ip_prox_1> http 10.10.10.100 3128 # ...
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Hiding client IP from a VPN server
VPNs can often be useful for obscuring personably identifying information (IP, geolocation, etc.) from remote destination servers. Traffic is routed through a VPN server and forwarded to the ...
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Help understanding pivoting and port forwading
I am trying to learn about pivoting/port forwarding and how to take full advantage of it. If I am connected to a network with the ip 192.168.0.10 and can see that 192.168.0.11 has access to a website ...
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How many proxy_len is good in proxychains?
How many chains are the best? chain_len = ? I read somewhere at tor browser, that more than 4 is not good so I guess it applies the same to proxychains? the default setting is chain_len = 2.
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How does proxychains avoid DNS leaks?
Also directly related, how are the DNS servers queried when using proxychains? Assume I'm using Tor for proxychains. If I uncomment the DNS part of proxychains.conf, my requests supposedly get sent ...
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Proxychains to access ports on the same host
This might be an incredible dumb question but I need to know if this concept is even possible. I have obtained a low privileged shell on a target machine. After doing some enumeration I know the host ...
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nmap through proxychains fails
Why can I not do the following with nmap over proxychains? proxychains nmap -A -v 10.185.11.0/24 Output: ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net) Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-...
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Error on Proxychains + Tor
I'm trying to connect through Proxychains and nc to a website but I get this error: myip.gelma.net:23: forward host lookup failed: Unknown host Previously, I was reciving this error: |DNS-request|...
