Are you seriously trying to DoS someone through a proxy? You realize that you DoSing porxy first, right?

It's a pretty slick idea if he pulls off the DDoS. Having a lot of zombies initiating connections through TOR would be fun because it would be so fucking hard to trace the origins of infected machines. However, that hurts TOR. And we love TOR <3

I like my pineapple because it's just a fun toy. Sure you can do that all on your laptop but with the pineapple you can get a battery pack and stash it somewhere with script that automatically connects to a remote offshore VPS over SSH tunnel for remote administration. Or attach it to a quad copter and fly it over unsuspecting buildings to sniff precious packets.

Not only that, but the firmware is written in PHP, so it's easily customizable. They also have the bar which has all kinds of plugins the community has made. Sure you can do all of this on your own by getting a Raspberry pi and the antennas, plus a camouflage case for stashing -- but for the price and modular firmware it's not a bad deal. It's also REALLY hard to break. Like...damn near un-brickable.

Also, for lulz check this article:

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2462478/microsoft-subnet/hacker-hunts-and-pwns-wifi-pineapples-with-0-day-at-def-con.html

Strong understanding C++ means that you can flexibly jump to other languages with ease. You will find yourself becoming spoiled with scripting languages like Python, but when you need razor sharp performance the answer will be C++. But it also depends on what you'll be doing. Not like you'll want to design a web application in C++, but you can do that and more with something like Python.

Wide adoption of community tested and designed modules v.s. from the ground up and in most cases from scratch. Not like anybody ever got mad that they knew more than one programming language. Fuck it -- learn them all.

You should come try out some Golang. Syntax is simpler than even the python syntax, faster than python and nearly approximating the other C family langs.

But you have to declare types way more often D: Lazy people like me hate that. I do love me some golang though -- multi-platform for the win.

I would say move the binary over to a bash shell and use the string and file commands to get more information about the file. You can also use binwalk to try and extract more meta data / other information about the modified file:

http://binwalk.org/

http://malwaremusings.com/2012/09/07/the-usefulness-of-strings-during-static-malware-analysis/

http://linux.die.net/man/1/strings

Are you going to be using this for strictly HTTP? If so I would recommend using python's requests module with requesocks.

Here's an example:
https://gist.github.com/jefftriplett/9748036

I would recommend you implement functions for specific protocols for uber efficiency. Also, txtorcon (uses Twisted) can be used to interact directly with TOR.:

https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon

I encourage it!