proxychains VS ProxyMan

Fun fact: proxychains uses LD_PRELOAD [0] to hook the necessary syscalls [1] for setting up a "proxy environment" for the wrapped program, e.g. `connect`, `gethostbyname`, `gethostbyaddr`, etc. Note this also implies that it could be leaky in some cases when applied to a program that uses alternative syscalls to make an external connection.

[0] https://github.com/haad/proxychains/blob/master/src/proxycha...

[1] https://github.com/haad/proxychains/blob/master/src/libproxy...

You can use ProxyChains in order to use the SOCKS5 proxy with any application, depending on the OS you are using.

I assume that https://github.com/haad/proxychains is the project in question. At https://github.com/haad/proxychains/blob/master/src/proxychains.conf you can view the contents of the configuration file and then save it in /etc/proxychains.conf.

That is weird. However, missing configs are usually an easy problem to solve - simply find one online and copy it (once you understand it). Here is the one from the proxy chains repo. Lastly, be careful with Kali, it's definitely not suited to beginners (you're doing the right thing running it in a VM at least).

ntlmrelayx2proxychains aims to connect the tool of the SecureAuthCorps' impacket suite, ntlmrelayx.py (hereafter referred to as "ntlmrelayx"), along with @byt3bl33d3r's tool, CrackMapExec (hereafter referred to as "CME"), over proxychains, developped by haad.

You can go even further with tools like proxychains that let you chain multiple proxies. This is used while setting up tor and comes pre-installed with pentesting distros like Kali and ParrotOS.

Bonus If you feel like all this is too much, you can use a tool like (ProxyMan)[https://github.com/himanshub16/ProxyMan/] that is a lightweight shell script with a simple interface to both set and unset these variables.

I use PDANET because my ISP will slow down certain connections when using the built in wifi hotspot on the phone. I use this script to set the proxy globally github ("./main.sh set")