Growth DeFi Hack
What happened
The attacker's address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x5e05bc89…21a04b
The attacker created a fake token called AXZ and supplied rAXZZ/GRO liquidity. He then staked it in the contract and pulled out the other pair.
The attacker:
- swapped 0.001 WETH for ~0.0148 GRO:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x97373e45…b304b5
- added ~0.0148 GRO and 100,000,000,000 AXXZ into Uniswap liquidity pair:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xa94c42b8…ea6247
- removed ~27,516 GRO and ~1,218 rAAVE liquidity from Uniswap:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x2152214a…a41a23
- swapped ~27,516 GRO for ~597 WETH and ~1,218 rAAVE on ~203 WETH:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xffef18b3…96797f
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xce020fab…757998
Stolen funds were distributed between 4 external wallets at:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0a6b5c92…f817eb
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xac4407bf…2ec2b4
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0391fa91…ece735
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb80894d7…9b680c
Case & protocol details
Security review history
- ConsenSys Diligence Report
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Post-mortem rekt.news
- report Post-mortem rekt.news
- analysis Website reference growthdefi.medium.com
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