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Introduction

Ligolo-ng is a simple, lightweight and fast tool that allows pentesters to establish tunnels from a reverse TCP/TLS connection using a tun interface (without the need of SOCKS).

Features

• Tun interface (No more SOCKS!)
• Simple UI with agent selection and network information
• Easy to use and setup
• Automatic certificate configuration with Let's Encrypt
• Performant (Multiplexing)
• Does not require high privileges
• Socket listening/binding on the agent
• Multiple platforms supported for the agent
• Can handle multiple tunnels
• Reverse/Bind Connection

How is this different from Ligolo/Chisel/Meterpreter... ?

Instead of using a SOCKS proxy or TCP/UDP forwarders, Ligolo-ng creates a userland network stack using Gvisor.

When running the relay/proxy server, a tun interface is used, packets sent to this interface are translated, and then transmitted to the agent remote network.

As an example, for a TCP connection:

• SYN are translated to connect() on remote
• SYN-ACK is sent back if connect() succeed
• RST is sent if ECONNRESET, ECONNABORTED or ECONNREFUSED syscall are returned after connect
• Nothing is sent if timeout

This allows running tools like nmap without the use of proxychains (simpler and faster).