I am running nmap through proxychains using this command:
proxychains nmap -v scanme.namp.org
This produced an error:
root@kali:~# proxychains nmap -v scanme.nmap.org
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
Starting Nmap 6.49BETA4 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2016-05-07 17:23 IST
|DNS-request| scanme.nmap.org
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<--denied
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-4.2.2.2:53-<><>-OK
|DNS-response| scanme.nmap.org is 45.33.32.156
45.33.32.156/0 looks like an IPv6 target specification -- you have to use the -6 option.
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned.
Nmap done: 0 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.94 seconds
Then I went to this question (here) and I tried this:
to the solution was, that I disabled the DNS through socks:
in /etc/proxychains.conf file, just add a # before the line "proxy_dns"
But when I ran nmap through proxychains the nmap scan was running, but the proxychains proxy is not working which gave me the following verbose output:
root@kali:~# proxychains nmap -v scanme.nmap.org
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
Starting Nmap 6.49BETA4 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2016-05-07 17:26 IST
Initiating Ping Scan at 17:26
Scanning scanme.nmap.org (45.33.32.156) [4 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 17:26, 0.20s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:26
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:26, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 17:26
Scanning scanme.nmap.org (45.33.32.156) [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 45.33.32.156
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 45.33.32.156
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 0 to 5 due to 11 out of 31 dropped probes since last increase.
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 5 to 10 due to 59 out of 196 dropped probes since last increase.
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 10 to 20 due to max_successful_tryno increase to 4
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 20 to 40 due to max_successful_tryno increase to 5
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 40 to 80 due to 28 out of 92 dropped probes since last increase.
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 80 to 160 due to max_successful_tryno increase to 6
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 160 to 320 due to max_successful_tryno increase to 7
SYN Stealth Scan Timing: About 24.82% done; ETC: 17:28 (0:01:34 remaining)
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 320 to 640 due to 11 out of 21 dropped probes since last increase.
Increasing send delay for 45.33.32.156 from 640 to 1000 due to max_successful_tryno increase to 8
SYN Stealth Scan Timing: About 24.66% done; ETC: 17:30 (0:03:06 remaining)
Discovered open port 31337/tcp on 45.33.32.156
Discovered open port 9929/tcp on 45.33.32.156
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 17:28, 97.38s elapsed (1000 total ports)
Nmap scan report for scanme.nmap.org (45.33.32.156)
Host is up (0.23s latency).
Other addresses for scanme.nmap.org (not scanned): 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe18:bb2f
Not shown: 992 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
514/tcp filtered shell
1434/tcp filtered ms-sql-m
9929/tcp open nping-echo
31337/tcp open Elite
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 97.65 seconds
Raw packets sent: 1477 (64.936KB) | Rcvd: 1457 (58.288KB)
From this we can see that the nmap works fine, but my question is why did nmap start as soon as the command was executed without tunneling itself through the proxies?, but if I ran a command like this:
proxychains firefox www.google.com
I got the following verbose output which shows the tunneling of proxies.
root@kali:~# proxychains firefox www.duckduckgo.com
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
(process:6159): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
console.error:
[CustomizableUI]
Custom widget with id loop-button does not return a valid node
console.error:
[CustomizableUI]
Custom widget with id loop-button does not return a valid node
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<--denied
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-46.51.216.186:80-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-46.51.216.186:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-52.19.3.28:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-117.18.237.29:80-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-74.125.130.91:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-216.58.199.174:80-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-74.125.130.102:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-46.51.216.186:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-46.51.216.186:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-46.51.216.186:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-46.51.216.186:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-46.51.216.186:443-<><>-OK
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<><>-54.251.178.52:443-<><>-OK