Confire and Using Proxychains in Backtrack 5

How to configure and use Proxychains in Backtrack 5

There are a lot of ways to hide your identity , either by single proxy or by multiple proxies like TOR which Xeo Hacker explained in a recent post.

But if u have BackTrack then nothing to worry about you can use proxy very easily and u can use multilple proxies also.

Well its called proxychains .. So lets get started

◘What it does?

Well proxychains is a inbuilt tool in backtrack to let u use proxy very easily. It uses proxy according to the configuration file , which we gonna config and it takes u to any address or url via multiple proxies

◘Introduction to Proxy chains.

well actually there is a configuration (.conf) file in etc folder . its named proxychains.conf . This is the file where u will do all ur stuffs and u'll hide your identity just by typing a single command once you configure.

Go to terminal and type following command then hit enter

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gedit /etc/proxychains.conf ♦
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◘Modes or types of proxychains

There are 3 modes of proxychains

☻dynamic_chain:This uses the list of proxies in the same order as u placed
☻strict_chain:almost similar to previous one except it will not work if it gets any dead proxy server
☻random_chain:this is the best .. this chooses and uses proxies randomly

◘Configuration of the file.

u have to open that file with root privilege to edit that file so first issue following command

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sudo su ♦
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then issue this command

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gedit /etc/proxychains.conf ♦
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now you have to follow these steps

comment out the mode u want to use

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strict_chain
#
#Strict-each connection will be done via chained proxies
#all proxies chained in order as they appear in the list
#all proxies must be online to play in chain
#Otherwise EINTR is returned to the app
#
//#random chain
#each connection will be done via random proxy
# (or proxy chain, see chain_len) from the list
#this option is good to test your IDS
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as u can see i have commented out random_chain by "//" .
now go to any proxy server list .. just google it .. i'll be using socks4 proxy servers so search on google .. then copy some IPs and their port no. and then paste it where it says add proxy here . refer the pic at last i have added some IPs.

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[ProxyList]
#add proxy here
#meanwhile
#defaults set to "tor"
socks4 127.0.0.1 9550
socks4 xxx.xx.xx.xxx ****
socks4 xxx.xx.xx.xxx ****
socks4 xxx.xx.xx.xxx ****

Now your configuration is done …..

◘How to use proxychains

to use proxychains just have to issue some commands as listed below.

proxyresolv [the site u want to open]
proxychains firefox [the site u want to open ] (for firefox)

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(For those willing to ask stupid questions)

NOTE: xxx.xx.xx.xxx = IP address (of the socks4)
NOTE: **** ports

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