ph4ntonn/Stowaway

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Stowaway is a multi-hop proxy tool written in Go, designed for penetration testers to route external traffic through chains of nodes into restricted internal networks. It builds a tree of admin/agent nodes with encrypted communication, SOCKS5 proxying, port forwarding, remote shells, and file transfer.

Use cases

• proxy traffic through multiple compromised hosts into an internal network
• set up a multi-level SOCKS5 proxy chain during a pentest
• forward local and remote ports across a node chain
• get a remote shell on an agent behind a firewall
• tunnel node-to-node traffic over SSH or through SOCKS5/HTTP proxies
• transfer files to and from machines inside a segmented network
• reuse an existing open port to covertly accept agent connections

When to choose

• you need multi-hop pivoting with a tree of nodes during an authorized red-team engagement
• you want encrypted (TLS/AES-256-GCM) node-to-node traffic with forward and reverse connections
• you need cross-platform agents including MIPS/ARM embedded devices
• you want an interactive admin console with node tree management, shell, and file upload/download

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose VPN or full network-layer tunnel rather than proxy-style pivoting
• your use case is not an authorized security assessment - unauthorized use is illegal
• you need a GUI-managed enterprise proxy solution
• you only need simple single-hop port forwarding, where ssh -L or socat suffices

Facets

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proxy networking security cryptography ssh security penetration-testing networking windows cross-platform cli multi-hop-proxy socks5 port-forwarding red-team tunneling pentesting reverse-connection traffic-encryption command-line linux macos

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