StarMan Hack
What happened
The $StarMan token was rugpulled by its team. The team created an StarMan/WBNB pair to make their token tradable and dumped the $StarMan token for a profit of 173.39 $BNB.
The creator of the token deployed the contract to the BNB network, where 10B tokens were sent to him.
Then he created a StarMan/BNB pair, 3B $StarMan and 300 $BNB:
After the community invested enough funds into the token, he removed lp, taking a profit of 173 $BNB:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xe2356bff…57e265
Stolen funds were transferred to scammer address (B): https://bscscan.com/tx/0xfb3fb8ee…f53110
Then the scammer address (B) laundered money through the Tornado.cash.
Involved addresses:
- Scammer address (A), token creator: https://bscscan.com/address/0xcbf5ac38…afaa89
- Scammer address (B): https://bscscan.com/address/0xcffe7b00…64bd44
Transactions:
- Token creation: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x808b6783…9cfb2f
- Creating lp:
- Remove lp: https://bscscan.com/tx/0xe2356bff…57e265
Smart-Contract Abilities
- Owner can open trading
- Hidden mechanism for pausing transfers openTrading() for non whitelisted users
- Hidden whitelist roles (_synced)
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report v2.tokeninsight.com
- report Report desk.lsr.finance
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