proxychains VS impacket

Compare proxychains vs impacket and see what are their differences.

proxychains

proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP. (by haad)

impacket

Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. (by fortra)
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proxychains impacket
19 25
6,053 12,694
- 2.0%
7.0 8.2
4 months ago 5 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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proxychains

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxychains. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-08.

impacket

Posts with mentions or reviews of impacket. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proxychains and impacket you can also consider the following projects:

torsocks - Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

CrackMapExec - A swiss army knife for pentesting networks

Rubeus - Trying to tame the three-headed dog.

Tor - Tor protects your privacy on the Internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. (This is *not* the official repository.)

impacket - Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. [Moved to: https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket]

nipe - An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

ms08_067 - Updating MS08-067 Python exploit script

sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

Win7Blue - Scan/Exploit - EternalBlue MS17-010 - Windows 7 32/64 Bits

ansible-squid - Ansible Squid role

FreeIPA - Mirror of FreeIPA, an integrated security information management solution