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1. Introduction:
Proxychains is 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.

2. What is SOCKS?
SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server.

Requirements:

1. Tor

2. Proxychains

Installation & Setup Guide:

Step 1: 1st install tor with below command:

sudo apt install tor

Step 2: Proxychains install with below command

sudo apt install proxychains   

Step 3: Now enable tor service with below command

sudo systemctl enable tor service

Step 4: Fixed Tor service issue with below command

sudo service tor start

Step 5 : Now check tor service status

sudo service tor status

  Till now disable

Step 6: Lets go now fixed this issue

sudo systemctl enable tor.service

sudo systemctl enable tor

Step 7: Now configure Proxychains.conf file

 sudo nano /etc/proxychains.conf

Remove & Replace comment from chain

 #Dynamic Chain -----> Dynamic Chain

 Strict Chain -------> #Strict Chain

 #Random Chain -------> Random Chain 

 ##Proxy DNS requests - no leak for DNS data ---> Proxy DNS requests - no leak for DNS data

Step 8: Also add Mention IP & PORT at the end of proxychains.conf file

  socks5  127.0.0.1 9050

Step 8: Now reboot your system

   reboot

Step 9: Check Tor Proxychains with below command

   proxychains firefox whatismyipaddress.com

POC : https://youtu.be/Mwss2iY3nOQ