What Is A Proxy? Quick Explanation

This is intended for people who are very new to this and have no clue about proxies, so what is a proxy? Artificial Geek explans:

Proxy Servers

What is a proxy server? A proxy server is essentially a private version of a VPN, VPNs often track what you search and it can be used against you. Proxies have thousands of uses which include: Changing your device’s location, se-ing from a different country/area, ordering country-specific items, signing up to services and offers, checking accounts, and much more.

How to use a Proxy

There are lots of different ways to connect to a proxy and it depends on the operating system you run. If its windows you can either use the inbuilt proxy connector or find one that is better suited to the task which you take on (Like a proxy switcher or manager). Proxies can be bought from sites, given for free (beware that free proxies tend to give bad performance compared to paid proxies). Here is a website I use for buying proxies: https://fineproxy.org/eng/. Also, a few VPN’s I recommend are NordVPN, ProtonVPN, and ExpressVPN.

Tools you can use for things related to proxies with: BlackArch

3proxy	0.8.13	Tiny free proxy server.
bdfproxy	104.3a4d7ba	Patch Binaries via MITM: BackdoorFactory + mitmProxy
binproxy	8.d02fce9	A proxy for arbitrary TCP connections.
cntlm	4.b35d55c	An NTLM, NTLM2SR, and NTLMv2 authenticating HTTP proxy.
datajackproxy	42.f75f3a3	A proxy which allows you to intercept TLS traffic in native x86 applications across platform.
dns-reverse-proxy	25.ed6127e	A reverse DNS proxy written in Go.
dnschef	17.a395411	A highly configurable DNS proxy for pentesters.
elite-proxy-finder	51.1ced3be	Finds public elite anonymity proxies and concurrently tests them.
fakedns	105.5cdba81	A regular-expression based python MITM DNS server with correct DNS request passthrough and “Not Found” responses.
mallory	132.8db35b9	HTTP/HTTPS proxy over SSH.
mitm-relay	29.9f34e23	Hackish way to intercept and modify non-HTTP protocols through Burp & others.
mitmproxy	5.1.1	SSL-capable man-in-the-middle HTTP proxy
obfs4proxy	0.0.11	A pluggable transport proxy written in Go.
obfsproxy	0.2.13	A pluggable transport proxy written in Python
pr0cks	20.c98188b	python script setting up a transparent proxy to forward all TCP and DNS traffic through a SOCKS / SOCKS5 or HTTP(CONNECT) proxy using iptables -j REDIRECT target.
proxychains-ng	4.14	A hook preloader that allows to redirect TCP traffic of existing dynamically linked programs through one or more SOCKS or HTTP proxies
proxyp	2013	Small multithreaded Perl script written to enumerate latency, port numbers, server names, & geolocations of proxy IP addresses.
redsocks	211.19b822e	Transparent redirector of any TCP connection to proxy.
rpivot	5.4963487	Socks4 reverse proxy for penetration testing.
sergio-proxy	0.2.1	A multi-threaded transparent HTTP proxy for manipulating web traffic
soapui	5.5.0	The Swiss-Army Knife for SOAP Testing.
sshuttle	1.0.2	Transparent proxy server that forwards all TCP packets over ssh
ssrf-proxy	293.e79da7a	Facilitates tunneling HTTP communications through servers vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery.
starttls-mitm	7.b257756	A mitm proxy that will transparently proxy and dump both plaintext and TLS traffic.
striptls	53.eff1d59	Proxy PoC implementation of STARTTLS stripping attacks.
tftp-proxy	0.1	This tool accepts connection on tftp and reloads requested content from an upstream tftp server. Meanwhile modifications to the content can be done by pluggable modules. So this one’s nice if your mitm with some embedded devices.
tinyproxy	1.10.0	A light-weight HTTP proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems.
tor	0.4.3.5	Anonymizing overlay network.
torsocks	2.3.0	Wrapper to safely torify applications
webfixy	25.5d477b0	On-the-fly decryption proxy for MikroTik RouterOS WebFig sessions.