Forwarding Traffic Through SSH
Summary
This article is a how-to guide on forwarding traffic through SSH, based on a detailed review of OpenSSH manual pages. It aims to provide practical insights into utilizing SSH for traffic redirection and related functionalities.
IFF Assessment
FRIEND
This article describes a defensive technique that can be used by security professionals to understand and secure network traffic.
Defender Context
Understanding how to forward traffic via SSH is a valuable technique for defenders, enabling secure remote access, tunneling for sensitive operations, and potentially obfuscating network activity. Knowledge of these capabilities can also help in detecting and analyzing malicious use of SSH for command and control or data exfiltration.