Taken from the Tor website, the Tor network is: This is where Tor becomes very useful, and so in this post I will explain a little bit about Tor, how SpiderFoot integrates with it, and how you can use this new capability in SpierFoot 2.5.0 to improve your reconnaisance results. Tor’s users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than making a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy… … a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Using the Tor network is as simple as installing the client software, which basically acts as a SOCKS-compatible proxy, and proxying TCP connections from your SOCKS-capable client (e.g. The target server you are connecting to does not see your IP address, but instead the IP address of the Tor “exit node” your connection is routed through after having hopped through other nodes within the Tor network (even the Tor exit node doesn’t know your IP address). That set of hops through the Tor network is known as your “Tor circuit” and is automatically changed every ten minutes.ĭepending on your Tor configuration, the Tor client will listen on two ports – one for proxying connectivity and the other for accepting control commands. The control port is used by SpiderFoot to request refreshing the circuit (what I refer to as “re-circuiting”). Running TorĪ wealth of information about installing and configuring Tor is available on the web, but for your purposes with SpiderFoot, you simply need to download and run the Tor client and enable control connections so that SpiderFoot can control it. Go to the Tor download page and download the package for your platform.NOTE: Tor offer a “Tor Browser” which is NOT what you must use with SpiderFoot – you need the Tor “stand-alone” client. Compile/Install the package as per the instructions provided.Output from the process should indicate any errors and general status updates, but a message like this would indicate you are successfully set up: Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working. Go to the Tor download page click Windows and then download the Expert Bundle.Unzip the package to a directory of your choice, open the Windows command line and change to the unzipped package “Tor” directory.Ĭheck that it is running and listening on both ports using Task Manager and then netstat should also indicate it is listening on both ports: C:\Tor>netstat /na | findstr 905.
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