The idea is simple: Taof is functioning as an ordinary proxy server now, handling our traffic to and from the remote service on our behalf. This is so Taof can learn what expected traffic looks like before the mutation fuzzing phase. Now, we simply connect to the proxy with any FTP client—this includes Internet Explorer, by the way. Just specify ftp as the protocol when you punch in the address. In our example, typing ftp://127.0.0.1:1066 into IE allowed me to access the FTP server listening at 192.168.63.130 on port 21.
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