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← back to feed·FLASHLOAN2022-04-13 · 4y ago
Incident · SLOWMIST

Elephant Money

Flash loan attack
Estimated loss
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
FLASHLOAN
FLASHLOANBYTECODE CATCHABLEAI SCANNABLE
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

▰ PROOF OF CONCEPT
DEFIHACKLABS
src/test/2022-04/Elephant_Money_exp.sol
view forked test on github ↗

Reproducible Foundry test fork from SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs. Clone the repo, run forge test against the file path above, and replay the exploit against a mainnet fork at the historical block. Use for reproduction only — not for live targets.

Forensic narrative

Elephant Money was attacked, resulting in the loss of 27,416.46 BNB. The attacker first used WBNB to buy a large amount of ELEPHANT, and then used BUSD to mint the TRUNK stablecoin. During the minting process, the Elephant contract will convert BUSD to WBNB and then back to ELEPHANT to drive up the ELEPHANT price. The attacker then sells ELEPHANT at a profit. Attack method (per SlowMist): Flash loan attack. Reported loss: 27,416.46 BNB.

Primary source
https://twitter.com/BlockSecTeam/status/1512832398643265537
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
Elephant Money
bug_class
flashloan
date_occurred
2022-04-13
loss_usd
source_id
sm:elephant-money::2022-04-13
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