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← back to feed·TRONLOGIC2019-05-03 · 7y ago
Incident · SLOWMIST

TronBank

Contract Vulnerability
Estimated loss
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
LOGIC
LOGICBYTECODE 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.

Forensic narrative

At 4:12 AM on May 3, Beijing time, a contract call transferred 26.73 million TRX (valued at RMB 4.27 million) from the TronBank contract, and the contract balance returned to zero. About two hours after the theft, wojak, the owner of THeRTT**, who transferred the 26.73 million TRX address, appeared. According to wojak, he wrote a script to analyze the bytecode of the TRON virtual machine, scan the contracts in batches and initiate transactions to see if there is any way to make money, but accidentally hit a bug in the Tronbank contract. At first he didn't even know that the money came from Tronbank. Some people in the community suggested that wojak return the money to the Tronbank developers, but wojak believes that this is not his problem. Developers should write test examples, do audits, and at least run some formal verifications (obviously they didn’t do anything). He is willing to return the money intact to every investor in Tronbank, not the developer of the project. Based on the available information, it is still too early to conclude that "the developer placed a backdoor in the contract". There are only two objective conclusions that can be drawn at present: 1. TRX Pro has a backdoor in the contract on the main network; 2. The code certified on TSC does not match the actual contract operation logic. Attack method (per SlowMist): Contract Vulnerability. Reported loss: 26,730,000 TRX.

Primary source
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aInEaYdS9X7HP7FbzWl6AQ
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
tron
protocol
TronBank
bug_class
logic
date_occurred
2019-05-03
loss_usd
source_id
sm:tronbank::2019-05-03
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