How to get Ops and takeover a channel on IRC Hack Hacking

I’ve been spending a lot of time online lately reading all kinds of stupid text files on how to “Takeover Ops Boi!!!”, “eLeEt WaYs To gEt OpS!!!”, “HOW TO GET OPS ON SERVER SPLITS”, etc. We all know none of these things work, at least not for me. They’re either written by morons, or they were written like 10 years ago and don’t work anymore. The method I’m presenting here DOES work, but it takes practice, patience, and careful reading.

Tools needed

An IRC script that can do mass deops quickly and easily (preferibly one that lets you press an F# (function) key to do mass deops, or one that automatically mass deops once you gain ops). You don’t want to have to start going through popup menus since you have to do this quickly.

An IRC script that can do mass CTCP versioning. I’ll explain later.

A wingate scanner. These aren’t too hard to find. Check http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/wingate-scanner/

A few ‘war’ programs to exploit irc clients, nuke, flood, etc. When I say flood, I don’t mean like a ping flood in mIRC, I mean like a real ICMP flooder. Try to find Final Fortune, it’s a program I made myself… very effective.

A lot of patience.

A brain.

Process

Find a channel you want to takeover. This method will NOT work on Dalnet or any other networks with anything like ChanServ. Also, this won’t work if all of the ops in the channel are bots (unless they’re VERY badly programmed). OK, so once you’re in the channel, do a Version CTCP on all of the ops in there. Look for exploitable scripts (some versions of ircN, mIRC 5.3x, mIRC 5.4, etc.). Now, let’s say you find someone with nick ‘DumbOP’ and he’s using a script that you know you can exploit and disconnect him from IRC (but don’t crash him yet!).

/dns DumbOP to find his IP. Now take your handy wingate scanner. Plug in his IP and search for a similar one with the scanner. If you can’t find one in the same Class C range, try Class B if you have to, but make sure it resolves to something close to DumbOP’s IP.

Good, so now you have a wingate IP similar to DumbOP’s. If you couldn’t find an IP close to his, try this with another op with an exploitable script. Do a /whois DumbOP to find the IRC server he’s on and his ident (the thing before the @ip). So now that you have the wingate IP, what do you do with it? I’ll assume you never wingated before, and I’ll explain how to do it with mIRC. For
the example, let’s say the wingate IP is 1.2.3.4, DumbOP’s ident is ‘opident’, and DumbOP’s irc server is ‘irc.server.net’.

Open a new instance of mIRC, and in the status window, do the following:

/server 1.2.3.4 23

You’ll see it say “WinGate>NICK (some nick)”

Right after you see this, type:

/quote irc.server.net 6667

You’ll probably then see something like

“Connecting to host USER…Host name lookup for USER failedirc.server.net 6667
Connecting to host irc.server.net…connected”

You might see more than this, you might see less. The important thing to watch for is:

” -1.2.3.4- *** Looking up your hostname…
-1.2.3.4- *** Checking Ident
-1.2.3.4- *** Found your hostname
-1.2.3.4- *** Got Ident response ”

Once you see that, type:

/quote user opident opident opident opident
/quote nick DumbOP1

You don’t have to use ‘DumbOP1’, just use any temporary nick you want. Also, you can use ‘/raw’ instead of ‘/quote’ if you wish.

If you did everything correctly, you’ll see the MOTD for the irc server, and you’ll be connected. If by chance 1.2.3.4 is k-lined from irc.server.net, you’ll have to go through the whole process again with a different server. This makes your “spoofing” (it’s not REALLY spoofing) attempt less realistic looking, but if you have to use a different server, then do it.

Once you’re online, everything works like normal. Do a /whois DumbOP1 to see your info. It should be close to DumbOP’s.

You’re halfway there! The next thing to do (not necessary, but recommended) is to try to find out some info on DumbOP. I recommend trying “nbtstat -A ” at the dos prompt, that might provide you with a name or two if you’re lucky. This is just some useful information that might
come in handy. Also, try searching ICQ for his nick and check his info, you might find good stuff in there.

The next step is to disconnect DumbOP from IRC. Either use an exploit, or nuke him (Click is sometimes useful (if you don’t know what Click is, it’s a program made by Rhad to have an IRC server ‘nuke’ a person… it sometimes works)), or ICMP flood him. Do anything you have to to disconnect him. By the way, you should have your original IRC session still open, with your
wingated IRC session running as a different instance of mIRC (you should have 2 ‘versions’ of mIRC running at the same time now, one with your original nick, info, etc., and the other with the DumbOP1 stuff). While you’re attacking DumbOP, monitor the channel with your original session of mIRC and wait for DumbOP to disconnect. Immediately after you see that, rename DumbOP1 to DumbOP (/nick DumbOP) and join the channel! Don’t say anything! If you’re lucky, a stupid op will op you. Then mass deop. If nothing happens for about 5 or 6 minutes, mass message the ops, saying something like “what happened? why am I not opped?”. You might get into a conversation. Remember to keep calm, and talk like an op. Don’t freak out and demand for them to op you. The “useful information” might come in handy now. Often the ops will tell you to get ops from the bots. Just say something like you’re desynched from the bots because of your ping timeout.

If your impersonation is good enough, 9/10 times they’ll op you. Like I said before, IMMEDIATELY do a mass deop. If possible, bring AT LEAST two bots (real bots, not just simple clones) into the channel to hold it and protect it.

If you followed all these steps thoroughly, you should be able to takeover most channels as long as there are at least 2 human ops (1 of which you’ll be ‘spoofing’, the other you’ll be messaging to op you).

Good luck and have fun!

Originally by St0rmer from EFNet, updated by Darknet.