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Hiding Malicious Code in Smartcontract Solidity

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Intro

What is solidity? Solidity is an object-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts. Smartcontracts are programs which govern the behaviour of accounts within the Ethereum state.

Why did we need to hide our malicious code? this is because anyone can see your smartcontract source code by using etherscan including your malicious code, Since everyone can see your code, so you have to hide your malicious code to prevent someone read your malicious code.

Demo

for this demonstration, I will make a simple smartcontract script below

Token.sol

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.6.10;

contract LOG{
    event Log(string msg);
    function print() public{
        emit Log("Good code");
    }
}
contract Token{
    LOG log;
    constructor(address _log) public{
        log = LOG(_log); 
    }
    function infoVersion() external{
        log.print();
    }
}

Now our goal is to change info.print() function to do evil stuff, then I create another smartcontract file

Mal.sol

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.6.10;

contract Mal{
    event Log(string msg);

    function print() external {
        // malicious code will be here
        emit Log("evil code");
    }
}

in this Post I will just log the evil code string which will be executed by Token smartcontract. now we can compile our smartcontract and passing our Mal smartcontract address to Token smartcontract.

now we can just click infoVersion() function and these function will execute log.print() function from Mal smartcontract