Lifecycle-Aware Dynamic Analysis for Secure ML Model Execution

Francesco Pastore; Gabriele Digregorio; Marco Di Gennaro; Michele Carminati; Stefano Longari; Stefano Zanero

arxiv: 2606.19023 · v1 · pith:LD6ROLWLnew · submitted 2026-06-17 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.LG

Lifecycle-Aware Dynamic Analysis for Secure ML Model Execution

Gabriele Digregorio , Marco Di Gennaro , Francesco Pastore , Stefano Zanero , Stefano Longari , Michele Carminati This is my paper

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keywords dynamic analysisML model securitylifecycle phasesattack detectionfalse positive ratemodel executionsecure MLhost system monitoring

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The pith

Dynamic monitoring of structured host interactions during ML model lifecycle phases detects every evaluated attack class with near-zero false positives.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that ML models follow predictable patterns of system interaction within distinct lifecycle phases, so attacks that embed malicious behavior can be caught by watching deviations from those patterns rather than by inspecting model files statically. This dynamic method is implemented as Moat and its reference tool Re-Moat, which was tested on nearly 78,000 real models from Hugging Face, dozens of CVE proofs-of-concept, and hundreds of additional artifacts. A sympathetic reader would care because existing scanners rely on format-specific rules or known signatures that fail to generalize across frameworks or spot novel attacks. If the claim holds, dynamic lifecycle monitoring becomes a practical way to secure the expanding use of pre-trained models without needing to update rules for every new threat.

Core claim

By translating the observation that ML models operate in well-defined lifecycle phases with highly structured and predictable host-system interactions into a dynamic analysis design, the approach detects all evaluated attack classes while maintaining a close-to-zero false-positive rate across multiple frameworks, real-world model collections, and known attack proofs-of-concept.

What carries the argument

Moat, the dynamic lifecycle-aware monitor that observes effects on the host system during each execution phase instead of relying on static signatures.

If this is right

All tested attack classes are detected regardless of the ML framework used.
False-positive rate stays close to zero on large collections of real-world models.
The method generalizes beyond the limitations of static, format-specific scanners.
Dynamic analysis is motivated as a viable direction for securing ML model execution.
Evaluation covers 77,974 Hugging Face models plus CVE PoCs and an established attack dataset.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same phase-based monitoring idea could be applied to other executable artifacts whose runtime behavior follows repeatable stages.
Runtime security layers in ML serving platforms might adopt similar checks without requiring per-framework static parsers.
Extending the approach to track additional host resources such as network or GPU activity could catch a broader range of side effects.
Organizations hosting model repositories could integrate the monitor into upload pipelines to flag suspicious artifacts before distribution.

Load-bearing premise

ML models operate within well-defined lifecycle phases and within each phase their interactions with the host system are highly structured and predictable.

What would settle it

A single CVE-style attack that alters model behavior without producing detectable deviations from the expected host-system interactions in any lifecycle phase, or a set of legitimate models that trigger repeated false positives under the same monitoring rules.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.19023 by Francesco Pastore, Gabriele Digregorio, Marco Di Gennaro, Michele Carminati, Stefano Longari, Stefano Zanero.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Lifecycle of an ML model, from artifact retrieval to prediction. • We design and implement RE-MOAT, a syscall-based reference implementation of MOAT that traces system calls at runtime and maps them to security-relevant actions. REMOAT supports multiple ML frameworks and file formats. • We empirically validate our intuitions by evaluating REMOAT on 77,974 real-world models, 31 PoCs, and 334 models from … view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of the core intuitions behind lifecycle [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Overview of the action-space abstraction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Offline definitions of RE-MOAT, showing the Action Abstraction and the Execution Boundaries Definition. Runtime Implementation ML Execution Environment 4 Û Tracer Physical Host 3 X Orchestrator Lifecycle Management · Boundary Selection · Monitoring Setup j Inference K Loading Ô Training Intercepts Syscalls · Resolves Arguments · Applies Syscall-to-Action Z NETWORK > DEVICE ¾ FILESYS X PROCESS _ SYSTEM Boun… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Runtime architecture of RE-MOAT, showing the Orchestrator and the Tracer. either anonymous memory allocation or access to a file, depending on whether a file descriptor is provided and on flags such as MAP_ANONYMOUS. Similarly, clone and clone3 may correspond to thread creation or process creation depending on flags such as CLONE_THREAD [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Categories of actions used in the reference imple [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_6.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

The growing reliance on pre-trained Machine Learning (ML) models has introduced new attack surfaces. Recent vulnerabilities demonstrate that malicious behavior can be embedded within model artifacts, often bypassing existing defenses. Current model-scanning solutions primarily rely on static, format-specific rules or known attack signatures, which limit their ability to generalize across frameworks and to detect novel exploitation paths. In contrast, we propose a solution that focuses on the effects an attack has on the host system executing the model and builds on foundational intuitions about ML model execution. In particular, we observe that ML models operate within well-defined lifecycle phases and that, within each phase, interactions with the host system are highly structured and predictable. We translate these intuitions into Moat, a dynamic lifecycle-aware approach for securing ML model execution, and instantiate this design in Re-Moat, our reference implementation. We evaluate Re-Moat across multiple ML frameworks using 77,974 real-world model artifacts from the Hugging Face Hub, 31 Proofs-of-Concept (PoCs) from CVEs, and 334 models from a state-of-the-art dataset, and compare it against state-of-the-art model-scanning solutions. Our results show that our approach detects all evaluated attack classes while maintaining a close-to-zero false-positive rate, validating our intuitions and motivating dynamic analysis for securing ML model execution.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

Re-Moat shows a workable dynamic monitoring approach for catching malicious ML models via lifecycle-phase system effects, but the strong detection claims rest on an assumption about predictable interactions that needs more scrutiny.

read the letter

The paper's core offering is Re-Moat, a dynamic analysis system that tracks how models interact with the host during defined lifecycle phases instead of relying on static signatures. It reports catching every tested attack class across 77k+ Hugging Face models, 31 CVE PoCs, and 334 dataset models while keeping false positives near zero.

The evaluation scale is the clearest strength. Running against real artifacts from a major hub and actual vulnerability proofs gives the results more weight than typical small-scale tests. The contrast with existing static scanners is also drawn clearly, and the phase-based intuition is stated upfront as the foundation.

The main soft spot is the assumption that interactions stay highly structured and predictable within each phase. If that does not hold for all frameworks or for models with unusual loading patterns, the low false-positive claim could shrink. The abstract gives no error bars, exclusion criteria, or phase-definition details, so it is difficult to judge how much the results depend on the specific test distribution.

No obvious circularity or invented entities appear in the reported work. The citation pattern stays within the expected security and ML literature without over-relying on self-citation.

This paper is aimed at security engineers and researchers who handle third-party models in production pipelines. Anyone already looking at supply-chain risks for ML would find the evaluation numbers and the dynamic angle useful to examine.

It deserves a serious referee. The problem is timely, the test volume is substantial, and the central claim is falsifiable even if the phase assumption turns out to be narrower than presented.

Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Moat, a dynamic lifecycle-aware approach for securing ML model execution by monitoring the effects of model interactions with the host system during well-defined lifecycle phases, where such interactions are assumed to be structured and predictable. It is instantiated as Re-Moat and evaluated on 77,974 real-world models from the Hugging Face Hub, 31 CVE PoCs, and 334 models from a state-of-the-art dataset, claiming to detect all evaluated attack classes with a close-to-zero false-positive rate while outperforming static, signature-based scanners.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under scrutiny, the work would be significant for ML security by shifting focus from static format-specific rules to dynamic, framework-agnostic analysis of runtime effects. The large-scale evaluation on real-world artifacts and CVE PoCs is a strength that supports claims of generalizability to novel attacks.

major comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that the approach 'detects all evaluated attack classes while maintaining a close-to-zero false-positive rate' on 77,974 models, 31 CVEs, and 334 dataset models cannot be assessed because the provided text contains no description of the detection mechanism, phase definitions, dynamic features monitored, statistical methods, error bars, or exclusion criteria used to support this result.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the review and the opportunity to clarify the presentation of our results. We address the single major comment below.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that the approach 'detects all evaluated attack classes while maintaining a close-to-zero false-positive rate' on 77,974 models, 31 CVEs, and 334 dataset models cannot be assessed because the provided text contains no description of the detection mechanism, phase definitions, dynamic features monitored, statistical methods, error bars, or exclusion criteria used to support this result.

Authors: We agree the abstract is too terse to allow standalone assessment of the central claim. The full manuscript defines the three lifecycle phases (loading, initialization, inference) and the monitored dynamic features (file-system writes/reads, process creation, network sockets, and memory mappings) in Section 3; the detection logic (phase-specific behavioral baselines derived from 1,000 benign models, followed by per-phase deviation scoring with a fixed threshold) is in Section 4. No error bars appear because each model produces a deterministic outcome under our sandboxed execution. We will revise the abstract to add one sentence summarizing the phase definitions, the dynamic features, and the deviation-based detection rule, while preserving the length constraint. This change will make the claim evaluable from the abstract alone. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper states its foundational intuitions explicitly (ML models have well-defined lifecycle phases with predictable host interactions), translates them into the Moat design and Re-Moat implementation, then reports an empirical evaluation on 77,974 real-world models, 31 CVEs, and 334 dataset models that measures detection of attack classes against a near-zero false-positive baseline. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations appear as load-bearing steps in the provided material; the central claim is presented as an external validation of the stated assumptions rather than a reduction to those assumptions by construction. The evaluation design directly tests the claimed distinction between attack effects and normal behavior, rendering the derivation self-contained against the reported benchmarks.

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