Due to the anonymity of blockchain,frequent security incidents and attacks occur through it,among which the Ponzi scheme smart contract is a classic type of fraud resulting in huge economic losses.Machine learningbase...Due to the anonymity of blockchain,frequent security incidents and attacks occur through it,among which the Ponzi scheme smart contract is a classic type of fraud resulting in huge economic losses.Machine learningbased methods are believed to be promising for detecting ethereum Ponzi schemes.However,there are still some flaws in current research,e.g.,insufficient feature extraction of Ponzi scheme smart contracts,without considering class imbalance.In addition,there is room for improvement in detection precision.Aiming at the above problems,this paper proposes an ethereum Ponzi scheme detection scheme through opcode context analysis and adaptive boosting(AdaBoost)algorithm.Firstly,this paper uses the n-gram algorithm to extract more comprehensive contract opcode features and combine them with contract account features,which helps to improve the feature extraction effect.Meanwhile,adaptive synthetic sampling(ADASYN)is introduced to deal with class imbalanced data,and integrated with the Adaboost classifier.Finally,this paper uses the improved AdaBoost classifier for the identification of Ponzi scheme contracts.Experimentally,this paper tests our model in real-world smart contracts and compares it with representative methods in the aspect of F1-score and precision.Moreover,this article compares and discusses the state of art methods with our method in four aspects:data acquisition,data preprocessing,feature extraction,and classifier design.Both experiment and discussion validate the effectiveness of our model.展开更多
The emergence of smart contracts has increased the attention of industry and academia to blockchain technology,which is tamper-proofing,decentralized,autonomous,and enables decentralized applications to operate in unt...The emergence of smart contracts has increased the attention of industry and academia to blockchain technology,which is tamper-proofing,decentralized,autonomous,and enables decentralized applications to operate in untrustworthy environments.However,these features of this technology are also easily exploited by unscrupulous individuals,a typical example of which is the Ponzi scheme in Ethereum.The negative effect of unscrupulous individuals writing Ponzi scheme-type smart contracts in Ethereum and then using these contracts to scam large amounts of money has been significant.To solve this problem,we propose a detection model for detecting Ponzi schemes in smart contracts using bytecode.In this model,our innovation is shown in two aspects:We first propose to use two bytes as one characteristic,which can quickly transform the bytecode into a high-dimensional matrix,and this matrix contains all the implied characteristics in the bytecode.Then,We innovatively transformed the Ponzi schemes detection into an anomaly detection problem.Finally,an anomaly detection algorithm is used to identify Ponzi schemes in smart contracts.Experimental results show that the proposed detection model can greatly improve the accuracy of the detection of the Ponzi scheme contracts.Moreover,the F1-score of this model can reach 0.88,which is far better than those of other traditional detection models.展开更多
基金This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China(Grant Numbers 2020YFB1005900,2022YFB3305802).
文摘Due to the anonymity of blockchain,frequent security incidents and attacks occur through it,among which the Ponzi scheme smart contract is a classic type of fraud resulting in huge economic losses.Machine learningbased methods are believed to be promising for detecting ethereum Ponzi schemes.However,there are still some flaws in current research,e.g.,insufficient feature extraction of Ponzi scheme smart contracts,without considering class imbalance.In addition,there is room for improvement in detection precision.Aiming at the above problems,this paper proposes an ethereum Ponzi scheme detection scheme through opcode context analysis and adaptive boosting(AdaBoost)algorithm.Firstly,this paper uses the n-gram algorithm to extract more comprehensive contract opcode features and combine them with contract account features,which helps to improve the feature extraction effect.Meanwhile,adaptive synthetic sampling(ADASYN)is introduced to deal with class imbalanced data,and integrated with the Adaboost classifier.Finally,this paper uses the improved AdaBoost classifier for the identification of Ponzi scheme contracts.Experimentally,this paper tests our model in real-world smart contracts and compares it with representative methods in the aspect of F1-score and precision.Moreover,this article compares and discusses the state of art methods with our method in four aspects:data acquisition,data preprocessing,feature extraction,and classifier design.Both experiment and discussion validate the effectiveness of our model.
基金This work was supported by the Scientific and Technological Project of Henan Province(Grant No.202102310340)Foundation of University Young Key Teacher of Henan Province(Grant Nos.2019GGJS040,2020GGJS027)+1 种基金Key Scientific Research Projects of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province(Grant No.21A110005)National Natual Science Foundation of China(61701170).
文摘The emergence of smart contracts has increased the attention of industry and academia to blockchain technology,which is tamper-proofing,decentralized,autonomous,and enables decentralized applications to operate in untrustworthy environments.However,these features of this technology are also easily exploited by unscrupulous individuals,a typical example of which is the Ponzi scheme in Ethereum.The negative effect of unscrupulous individuals writing Ponzi scheme-type smart contracts in Ethereum and then using these contracts to scam large amounts of money has been significant.To solve this problem,we propose a detection model for detecting Ponzi schemes in smart contracts using bytecode.In this model,our innovation is shown in two aspects:We first propose to use two bytes as one characteristic,which can quickly transform the bytecode into a high-dimensional matrix,and this matrix contains all the implied characteristics in the bytecode.Then,We innovatively transformed the Ponzi schemes detection into an anomaly detection problem.Finally,an anomaly detection algorithm is used to identify Ponzi schemes in smart contracts.Experimental results show that the proposed detection model can greatly improve the accuracy of the detection of the Ponzi scheme contracts.Moreover,the F1-score of this model can reach 0.88,which is far better than those of other traditional detection models.
