Proxychains configuration file

Could not load tags. Latest commit. Update mac os build. Git stats commits. Failed to load latest commit information. Sep 10, Dec 10, Jul 15, Feb 8, Test build on osx too. Feb 14, Add more documentation updates about BSD support and using pkgsrc to …. How to configure proxychains properly? Ask Question. Asked 1 year ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 10k times. The option below identifies how the ProxyList is treated.

Improve this question. Zoan Zoan 1 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Also check if tor is running on port systemctl status tor You can follow this guide. Improve this answer. Dynamic chaining will enable us to run our traffic through every proxy on our list, and if one of the proxies is down or not responding, the dead proxies are skipped, it will automatically go to the next proxy in the list without throwing an error. Each connection will be done via chained proxies.

All proxies will be chained in the order as they appear in the list. Activating dynamic chaining allows for greater anonymity and trouble-free hacking experience. Random chaining will allow proxychains to randomly choose IP addresses from our list and each time we use proxychains, the chain of proxy will look different to the target, making it harder to track our traffic from its source.

Since we can only use one of these options at a time, make certain that you comment out the other options in this section before using proxychains. This option will determine how many of the IP addresses in your chain will be used in creating your random proxy chain.

Ok, now you know how hackers use proxychains to cover their identity and stay anonymous without worrying about being detected by target IDS or forensic investigators. Once we have proxychains configured, now we will have to run the web browser using proxychains, for example, we could execute the following command to open a specific website through the Tor network:. And check from which-es-my-ip. From now on, all the traffic that we generate in the browser window opened from the previous command will be totally anonymous, being able to establish a direct non-anonymous connection from any other window that we open manually from the same browser.

For example, proxychains is widely used by pentesters to perform port scanning remotely anonymously, in this way, if we execute:. We can perform a port scan based on the proxy that we have configured, in this way, our real public IP address will not appear, but the one of the configured proxy.

We hope that with this tutorial you can browse and perform different actions on the Internet anonymously, making use of the Tor network or any other anonymous proxy server that we can configure in this powerful and easy-to-use Proxychains program.