Copying files over Tor using torsocks and scp

If you haven’t setup a Tor service on machine follow the link below.

Setting up Tor on your machine on Torproject.org

Setting up Tor hidden service

We’ll take advantage on port forwarding your ssh port 22 using a Tor hidden service.

To copy files or directories over Tor we need to use torsocks to communicate with the remote machine.

For files

torsocks scp file kbeflo@hostname.onion:/home/kbeflo/

For directories

torsocks scp -r directory/ kbeflo@hostname.onion:/home/kbeflo/

The hidden service will show password prompt for your username and will copy the files after.

Note that you have to change the username and hostname on your side. As an example I used my username and placeholder hostname.onion.