learning hacking? DON'T make this mistake!! (hide yourself with Kali Linux and ProxyChains)
About this video
He warns that running hacking tools directly exposes your public IP address in scan traffic, illustrated with an Nmap scan of David Bombal’s site that he says would be logged and blocked. He explains proxies as middlemen and proxy chaining as routing through several servers so tracing logs across all of them is difficult, while stressing it is not foolproof and framing the lesson for ethical hacking with permission. He then configures ProxyChains in Kali Linux by editing /etc/proxychains.conf, enabling dynamic chain instead of strict chain, leaving proxy DNS enabled so DNS requests also go through the proxy, and adding SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxies to the list, disabling the default Tor entry. He demonstrates prefixing commands with ‘proxychains’ for Firefox and for Nmap TCP connect scans, claiming the browser then showed Thailand as his location, and explains finding free proxies via lists such as spies.one. He ends with a multi-hop challenge requiring proxychains Nmap with -Pn to scan a private subnet for a web server.
Key takeaways
- Direct scans reveal your IP address to the target’s firewall and logs — a proxy hides it behind the proxy’s IP
- Chaining multiple proxies makes tracing harder because investigators would need logs from each hop
- In proxychains.conf he enables dynamic chain, disables strict chain, and keeps proxy_dns enabled
- Run any tool through the chain by prefixing it, e.g. proxychains firefox or proxychains nmap -sT
- For the challenge scan, use -Pn to skip host pinging and -sT for a TCP connect scan through the chain
Episode details: published August 2, 2020 · 12:49 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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