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AI Agent Smart Contract Exploit Generation

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  • Haebom

Author

Arthur Gervais, Liyi Zhou

Outline

To address the challenges of smart contract vulnerability discovery, this paper proposes an agent system, A1, based on a large-scale language model (LLM). Leveraging LLM, A1 autonomously discovers vulnerabilities in smart contracts and generates exploits by testing them on real blockchains. Evaluation results on 36 real-world vulnerable smart contracts demonstrate a 63% success rate on the VERITE benchmark, with a potential profit of up to $8.59 million for a successful attack. Furthermore, the paper highlights the importance of rapid vulnerability discovery and the economic imbalance between attackers and defenders.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We demonstrate that LLM-based agent systems can be used to effectively discover and exploit smart contract vulnerabilities.
Emphasizes that rapid vulnerability discovery has a significant impact on economic benefits.
Raises concerns about the potential for AI agents to engage in attacks and suggests the need for further research.
A new approach to strengthening smart contract security.
Limitations:
A1's success rate is not perfect at 63%.
Economic analysis is based on certain conditions and assumptions.
A more in-depth analysis of the attack bias of AI agents is needed.
Testing of more diverse and complex smart contracts is needed.
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