Incident Overview
Agent Smith project was exploited in a rugpull incident, resulting in a loss of 226,545 $USD.
Agent Smith (SMITH), an ERC20 token trading on UniSwap, fell victim to a rugpull operation by its deployer who removed liquidity from the LP pool. After the liquidity removal, the stolen funds were transferred to another EOA address, and then further distributed among multiple other addresses. The total financial loss from this event is calculated to be 226,545 $USD, equivalent to 120 ETH.
Deployer Address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x1b8d1feD…Dfb07B
Scammer's Address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x0c46deb2…8fe918
Liquidity Removal Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x9b88f32f…5ae4c6
Incident Report
Protocol Information
Market Context at Time of Hack
What the Attacker Needed to Succeed
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What Auditors Should Check
If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to Agent Smith, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (July 2023).
- Verify all logic paths related to Rugpull are guarded by proper access controls and input validation
- Review privileged functions (owner, admin, governance) for potential abuse vectors - centralization risks should be documented and bounded with timelocks or multi-sigs
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