## Verification Steps 1. Start `msfconsole` 2. Do: `use auxiliary/server/socks4a` 3. Do: `run` 4. Do: `curl --proxy socks4a://localhost:1080 https://github.com` 5. You should see the source for the Github homepage ## Options **SRVHOST** The local IP address to bind the proxy to. The default value of `0.0.0.0` will expose the proxy to everything on the attacker's network. **SRVPORT** The local port to bind the proxy to. The default value is `1080`, the standard port for a socks4a proxy. ## Scenarios This module is great when pivoting across a network. Suppose we have two machines: 1. Attacker's machine, on the `192.168.1.0/24` subnet. 2. Victim machine with two network interfaces, one attached to the `192.168.1.0/24` subnet and the other attached to the non-routable `10.0.0.0/24` subnet. We'll begin by starting the socks4a proxy: ``` msf > use auxiliary/server/socks4a msf auxiliary(socks4a) > run [*] Auxiliary module execution completed [*] Starting the socks4a proxy server msf auxiliary(socks4a) > ``` Preparing to pivot across a network requires us to first establish a Meterpreter session on the victim machine. From there, we can use the `autoroute` script to enable access to the non-routable subnet: ``` meterpreter > run autoroute -s 10.0.0.0/24 ``` The `autoroute` module will enable our local socks4a proxy to direct all traffic to the `10.0.0.0/24` subnet through our Meterpreter session, causing it to emerge from the victim's machine and thus giving us access to the non-routable subnet. We can now use `curl` to connect to a machine on the non-routable subnet via the socks4a proxy: ``` curl --proxy socks4a://localhost:1080 http://10.0.0.15:8080/robots.txt ``` We can take this a step further and use proxychains to enable other tools that don't have built-in support for proxies to access the non-routable subnet. The short-and-sweet guide to installing and configuring proxychains looks something like this: ``` # apt-get install proxychains # cp /etc/proxychains.conf /etc/proxychains.conf.backup # echo "socks4 127.0.0.1 8080" > /etc/proxychains.conf ``` From there, we can use our other tools by simply prefixing them with `proxychains`: ``` # proxychains curl http://10.0.0.15:8080/robots.txt # proxychains nmap -sT -Pn -n -p 22 10.0.0.15 # proxychains firefox ```