Tuesday 12 February 2013

Chaining The Proxies With ProxyChains

In this tutorial, we will learn to redirect our TCP traffics through the chain of proxies using a well known tool named ProxyChains.

ProxyChains is a tool for tunneling TCP and DNS traffics through chain of several proxy servers which supports HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 proxy servers. Hence, this tool leverages several usages such as anonymity, bypassing filters, running any program through proxy servers, etc.

You can DOWNLOAD proxychains from SourceForge. In ubuntu, you can directly install it from repos:

samar@samar-Techgaun:~$ sudo apt-get install proxychains


Once you have installed the proxychains, you need to configure this tool. The global configuration file is located at /etc/proxychains.conf so if you wish to have your own configuration file, you could either create the proxychains.conf file in the current working directory or at $HOME/.proxychains/proxychains.conf.

In my example, I'll edit the global configuration file by issuing the command:

samar@samar-Techgaun:~$ sudo nano /etc/proxychains.conf


First, we will have to select the kind of chaining option we want to use. We can use one of the dynamic_chain, strict_chain, and random_chain chaining options. In most cases, it is good to just use the dynamic_chain so we uncomment the line containing dynamic_chain and comment all other chaining options.



Then we need to grab some proxies and then insert at the end of our configuration file which would look like:

socks4 127.0.0.1 9050
socks5 192.168.2.90 3128
socks5 1**.1**.*.* 8080


You could add as much as proxy servers in the list. Btw, the asterisks in the above example do not mean wildcards, they are just there to symbolize some proxy server. There are free sites on the Internet which provide big database of different kinds of proxies. Even several proxy scrapers are available all over the internet and you could even write one on your own. So getting list of good proxies is not the difficult job. Once you finish the configuration, you can run any command through proxychains. The syntax is as simple as below:

samar@samar-Techgaun:~$ proxychains <any_command>


For example, below is the example nmap scan run through the proxychains:

samar@samar-Techgaun:~$ proxychains nmap -p 1-1000 -O victim.tld


P.S. If you are interested in some GUI for using proxychains, you can use ProxyChainsGUI. Lastly, the default package from Ubuntu repository seems to be missing the proxyresolv command so I would recommend to compile the source code locally.

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Thursday 7 February 2013

NCell Paisa Double For Prepaid and Pro Classic customers

Ncell has introduced yet another offer, the Paisa Double for all the prepaid and pro classic customers which will be available for next eight weeks.

With the Ncell's Paisa Double offer, you will be able to double the said amount. Ncell says that it is a new offer that acknowledges the loyalty of Ncell customers by providing them various amounts to double.

Once you have enough main balance, you can activate the offer by dialing 1212. In order to utilize the scheme, you have to follow the steps as below:

  • Dial 1212 and listen to find out what amount you can double. Then press 1 to get the double of the said amount. Alternatively, you can also dial *1212# and press 1.
  • After you press 1, the said amount will be deducted from your main balance and the double of it will be added as your Paisa Double balance.


While the offer sounds great, it is only applicable within Ncell network. You can use the Paisa Double balance to make calls, send SMS and MMS within Ncell network and even to access internet. You can subscribe Ncell Paisa Double offer only once and it will be auto-renewed every week until you deactivate or till the offer ends.

Dial *101# to know your remaining Paisa Double balance. If you wish to deactivate the service, type R and send it to 1212 through SMS. However, you can again activate if you wish within the offer period.


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