https://github.com/peterupfold/socky

Listen on TCP sockets to observe connection attempts to servers on the localhost.
https://github.com/peterupfold/socky

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Listen on TCP sockets to observe connection attempts to servers on the localhost.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/peterupfold/socky
• Owner: PeterUpfold
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2019-06-09T03:39:59.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2020-06-13T06:01:39.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-08T09:51:05.057Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: C
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• Size: 14.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Socky

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Listen on TCP sockets to observe connection attempts to servers on the local network.

This is designed to provide some level of visibility into any activities on your system where local servers

running on Well-Known (and merely well-known, if you catch my drift) ports are being enumerated.

Inspired by the proof of concept of this demonstrated by https://wybiral.github.io/wtf/

**Note:** that this is not particularly serious or practical, but I wanted a project that let me work directly

with the Core Foundation APIs in C, and this seemed a good opportunity.

Installation

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 * Build and copy `Socky` to `/usr/local/bin/Socky` (or another appropriate path).

 * Review `uk.org.upfold.Socky.plist`. In `ProgramArguments`, supply as many ports on which you wish Socky to bind and listen for incoming connections. Note that these ports must not be occupied (such as the `27060` port which appears to be used by Steam).

 * Copy `uk.org.upfold.Socky.plist` to `~/Library/LaunchAgents` to have Socky start on login. Remember that it will bind to the ports specified, so will stop any other application from binding to those ports!