Tunneling & Port Forwarding

A list of useful tools and command to create tunnels and forward ports.

Table of Content

• SSH

  • Local Port Forwarding

  • Remote Port Forwarding

  • Dynamic Port Forwarding

• chisel

• socat

  • Local Port forwarding

  • Quiet port forwarding

• shuttle

• Metasploit

• proxychains

Summary:

• Proxychains and FoxyProxy are used to access a proxy created with one of the other tools

• SSH can be used to create both port forwards, and proxies

• plink.exe is an SSH client for Windows, allowing you to create reverse SSH connections on Windows

• Socat is a good option for redirecting connections, and can be used to create port forwards in a variety of different ways

• Chisel can do the exact same thing as with SSH portforwarding/tunneling, but doesn't require SSH access on the box

• sshuttle is a nicer way to create a proxy when we have SSH access on a target