00 — Overview

Pivoting & Tunnelling

Reach machines that shouldn't be reachable. Learn SSH port forwarding, SOCKS proxies, chisel tunnels, and socat relays — the techniques that turn one foothold into full network access.

Intermediate·60 min·6 tasks
// By the end of this module
Explain the pivot model and why direct access is often blocked
Set up SSH local port forwarding to reach an internal service
Route arbitrary TCP traffic through SOCKS5 with SSH dynamic forwarding
Build a fast TCP tunnel using Chisel and relay traffic with Socat