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WireSocks for Easy Proxied Routing

ID: 25449982-57c8-59b1-8468-cf36ef4c30b2

STIX ID: report--25449982-57c8-59b1-8468-cf36ef4c30b2

Feed Name: SensePost Blog

Date Published: 2022-09-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

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The report introduces WireSocks, a Dockerized approach that fuses WireGuard VPN and tun2socks to enable transparent, network-level tunneling of TCP traffic through a SOCKS proxy—useful for red-team pivoting and reaching internal networks with working DNS. It outlines the architecture, container namespace sharing, route configuration via environment variables, and a CoreDNS workaround that forces TCP for DNS to address SOCKS/UDP limitations, and provides a quick-start using docker-compose with generated client configurations.

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