Openfabric AI Hack

TOTAL LOST $59K
Low Rugpull

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Affected Chain 2023 Incident surface
Recovered - No recovery reported
All-Time Rank #1685 By amount stolen
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull Target category

Incident Overview

OFN token project experienced a rugpull exit scam, resulting in a loss of 58,644 USD worth 278.40 WBNB on Oct 19, 2023.

OFN is a BEP20 token trading on PancakeSwap. The deployer and scammer addresses had previously sent funds from Binance to themselves. The deployer then renounced ownership of the token contract, possibly to facilitate the later hack.

The scammer mint 1.Q OFN tokens and sell them. The stolen funds, amounting to 58,644 USD worth 278.40 WBNB, were transferred to another EOA and then distributed between multiple addresses.

Deployer Address:

https://bscscan.com/address/0x975bf151…8a463C

Scammer Addresses:

https://bscscan.com/address/0x76fA0caE…d841C5

https://bscscan.com/address/0xFcCe0c3B…8FD2d4

https://bscscan.com/address/0x17F06EC1…a47831

Draining Transaction:

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x310ef4d1…91db07

Incident Report

Protocol / Project Openfabric AI
Date of Incident
Attack Technique Rugpull
Classification Token
Primary Source View Post-Mortem

Protocol Information

Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected Token OFN
Official Website openfabric.ai/
Protocol Twitter/X @openfabricai
Team Anonymous
Source Code Verified On-Chain

Market Context at Time of Hack

Token Categories
Marketplace AI & Big Data DeFi IoT DAO Binance Chain Governance Seedify

What the Attacker Needed to Succeed

Understanding the prerequisites for this type of attack helps auditors identify protocols that are most at risk and helps developers build better defenses.

Technical Knowledge Deep understanding of rugpull and Solidity and EVM internals
Capital Required Seed capital to cover gas and initial position setup
On-Chain Access Ability to interact with smart contracts and deploy a custom exploit contract
Protocol Analysis Identification of the exploitable vulnerability in Openfabric AI's contract logic - root cause: token
Execution Speed Precise transaction ordering and timing to exploit the vulnerability within a single atomic block
Obfuscation Plan A strategy to launder and move stolen funds - typically through mixers, cross-chain bridges, or decentralized DEX swaps to resist tracing

What Auditors Should Check

Could this have been caught in audit? Hard to catch — private key / OpSec failures are outside smart contract audit scope

If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to Openfabric AI, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (October 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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Sources & References

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