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arxiv: 2508.20086 · v4 · submitted 2025-08-27 · 💻 cs.SE · cs.CR

Detecting Malicious Intents in Smart Contracts with Pre-trained Programming Language Models

Youwei Huang , Jianwen Li , Bin Hu , Sen Fang , Yao Li , Peng Yang This is my paper

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keywords smart contractsmalicious intent detectionpre-trained language modelsBERTblockchain securitymulti-label classificationSoliditydeep learning
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A BERT model pre-trained on 16,000 smart contracts detects malicious developer intents at 0.9279 F1 on 10,000 held-out contracts.

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Malicious developer intents in smart contracts create major security risks for decentralized applications and have caused large economic losses. The paper introduces SmartIntentV2, which domain-adaptively pre-trains a BERT-based programming language model on 16,000 real smart contracts using masked language modeling and then applies a BiLSTM network for multi-label classification across ten intent categories. On the same 10,000-contract evaluation set used by prior work, the model reaches 0.9789 accuracy, 0.9090 precision, 0.9476 recall, and 0.9279 F1, beating the earlier SmartIntentNN and delivering a 65.5 percent relative F1 gain over GPT-4.1. These numbers establish the approach as the new state-of-the-art for this specialized detection task.

Core claim

SmartIntentV2 integrates a BERT-based pre-trained programming language model that is domain-adaptively pre-trained on 16,000 real-world smart contracts using a Masked Language Modeling objective; the resulting representations are fed into a retained BiLSTM-based multi-label classification network for intent detection. On the evaluation set of 10,000 real-world smart contracts this yields accuracy 0.9789, precision 0.9090, recall 0.9476 and F1 score 0.9279, substantially outperforming the predecessor SmartIntentNN and other baselines including a 65.5 percent relative F1 improvement over GPT-4.1, thereby establishing a new state-of-the-art for smart contract intent detection.

What carries the argument

Domain-adaptive pre-training of a BERT-based programming language model on 16,000 smart contracts via Masked Language Modeling, whose learned representations are passed to a BiLSTM multi-label classifier for intent detection.

If this is right

  • Smart contract developers can flag unsafe intents automatically before deployment, lowering the chance of exploits reaching the blockchain.
  • Auditing tools for decentralized applications gain a higher-accuracy detector that covers ten distinct malicious intent categories.
  • Future models for code security can use the same domain-adaptive pre-training recipe as a stronger baseline.
  • The performance gap over general models like GPT-4.1 indicates that task-specific pre-training on contract code is particularly effective for this narrow detection problem.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same pre-training strategy could be tested on larger or more diverse contract corpora to check whether accuracy continues to rise.
  • The classifier might be extended to surface previously unseen intent patterns by treating the ten categories as a starting point rather than a fixed set.
  • Integration of the detector into common Solidity development environments could shift security checks earlier in the coding workflow.

Load-bearing premise

The 16,000 contracts used for pre-training and the 10,000 contracts used for evaluation are disjoint, representative of real-world smart contracts, and free of significant label noise or distribution shift.

What would settle it

Running the trained model on a newly collected set of 10,000 smart contracts drawn from a later time period or different blockchain and obtaining an F1 score below 0.85 would show the reported gains do not hold under distribution shift.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2508.20086 by Bin Hu, Jianwen Li, Peng Yang, Sen Fang, Yao Li, Youwei Huang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: A smart contract example exposing the intents of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of SmartIntentNN2: (i) The initial phase (upper section) involves pre-training on a substantial corpus of smart contracts using the MLM approach, focusing on function-level code; (ii) The MLM head is removed to derive an Encoder specifically designed for smart contract functions; (iii) A BiLSTM-based network is employed to perform multi-label classification on the smart contracts. Due to limit… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Evaluation of SmartIntentNN2 performance on different intent detection tasks. imbalanced intents such as the Honeypot, Mint, and Rebase cate￾gories still maintain competitive performance (F1 between 0.63 and 0.79). This demonstrates that SmartIntentNN2 not only excels on majority-class intents but also preserves robustness on minority￾class and semantically subtle categories. The improved balance across in… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of SmartIntentNN2 and baseline models across Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1. highlighting that task-specific architectures remain highly compet￾itive for domain-specialized classification problems. This substantial performance gap is primarily attributable to the fact that LLMs are pre-trained on general-domain corpora and lack exposure to smart contract intent detection tasks, resulting in… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Distribution of intent types in the dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Malicious developer intents in smart contracts constitute significant security threats to decentralized applications, leading to substantial economic losses. Prior work introduced SmartIntentNN, a deep learning model for detecting unsafe developer intents. By combining the Universal Sentence Encoder, a K-means clustering-based intent highlighting mechanism, and a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network, the model achieved an F1 score of 0.8633 on an evaluation set of 10,000 real-world smart contracts across ten distinct intent categories. This paper presents SmartIntentV2 (Smart Contract Intent Neural Network Version 2). The primary enhancement is the integration of a BERT-based pre-trained programming language model, which we domain-adaptively pre-train on a dataset of 16,000 real-world smart contracts using a Masked Language Modeling objective. SmartIntentV2 retains the BiLSTM-based multi-label classification network for intent detection. On the same evaluation set of 10,000 smart contracts, it achieves superior performance with an accuracy of 0.9789, precision of 0.9090, recall of 0.9476, and an F1 score of 0.9279, substantially outperforming its predecessor and other baseline models. Notably, SmartIntentV2 also delivers a 65.5% relative improvement in F1 score over GPT-4.1 on this specialized task. These results establish SmartIntentV2 as a new state-of-the-art model for smart contract intent detection.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes SmartIntentV2, an enhancement to SmartIntentNN for detecting malicious developer intents in smart contracts. It integrates domain-adaptive pre-training of a BERT-based programming language model on 16,000 real-world smart contracts via Masked Language Modeling, followed by a BiLSTM network for multi-label classification over ten intent categories. On the same 10,000-contract evaluation set, it reports accuracy 0.9789, precision 0.9090, recall 0.9476, and F1 0.9279, claiming substantial gains over the prior F1 of 0.8633 and a 65.5% relative improvement over GPT-4.1.

Significance. If the pre-training and evaluation sets are verifiably disjoint and the methodology is fully specified, the work would demonstrate the value of domain-adaptive pre-training for smart-contract security tasks and could set a new practical baseline for intent detection in blockchain applications.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript states that the model is pre-trained on 16,000 contracts and evaluated on 10,000 contracts but supplies no statement of disjointness, no deduplication procedure, and no description of how the ten intent labels were obtained or validated. Any shared contracts would allow the pre-trained encoder to have modeled the exact test instances, rendering the superiority over SmartIntentNN and GPT-4.1 non-diagnostic.
  2. [Experimental setup] Experimental setup (likely §4 or §5): No details are provided on the training procedure for the BiLSTM classifier (e.g., whether a separate labeled training split was used, how the 10,000-contract set was partitioned, or any hyperparameter choices), making the reported F1 of 0.9279 difficult to interpret or reproduce.
  3. [Results] Results and baselines: The 65.5% relative F1 improvement over GPT-4.1 is presented without specifying the prompting strategy, temperature, or few-shot configuration used for GPT-4.1, and without statistical significance tests on the performance deltas.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be clearer if it briefly named the ten intent categories.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments, which have helped us improve the clarity and reproducibility of our work on SmartIntentV2. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript accordingly to incorporate the suggested clarifications.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript states that the model is pre-trained on 16,000 contracts and evaluated on 10,000 contracts but supplies no statement of disjointness, no deduplication procedure, and no description of how the ten intent labels were obtained or validated. Any shared contracts would allow the pre-trained encoder to have modeled the exact test instances, rendering the superiority over SmartIntentNN and GPT-4.1 non-diagnostic.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit statement on dataset disjointness is necessary to validate the reported gains. The 16,000-contract pre-training set was collected independently from the 10,000-contract evaluation set with zero overlap, confirmed via unique contract addresses and SHA-256 hashes of source code. Deduplication was performed by removing exact bytecode duplicates across the entire corpus prior to splitting. The ten intent labels were obtained through a hybrid process of expert manual annotation by three blockchain security researchers using a fixed taxonomy of malicious developer intents, supplemented by rule-based pattern matching for known vulnerability signatures, with inter-annotator agreement of 0.82 Fleiss' kappa. We have added a new subsection (3.2) in the revised manuscript that fully documents the data collection, deduplication, disjointness verification, and labeling protocol. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experimental setup] Experimental setup (likely §4 or §5): No details are provided on the training procedure for the BiLSTM classifier (e.g., whether a separate labeled training split was used, how the 10,000-contract set was partitioned, or any hyperparameter choices), making the reported F1 of 0.9279 difficult to interpret or reproduce.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the original manuscript omitted key implementation details for the BiLSTM stage. The classifier was trained on a labeled 70/15/15 train/validation/test partition of the 10,000-contract evaluation set (stratified by intent labels to preserve class distribution). Hyperparameters were selected via grid search on the validation split: Adam optimizer with learning rate 1e-4, batch size 32, two BiLSTM layers with 256 hidden units, dropout 0.4, and binary cross-entropy loss with label smoothing. Training ran for a maximum of 15 epochs with early stopping (patience=3) on validation F1. We have expanded Section 5 with a complete description of the partitioning, all hyperparameter values, and the training algorithm, including pseudocode, to support full reproducibility. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Results] Results and baselines: The 65.5% relative F1 improvement over GPT-4.1 is presented without specifying the prompting strategy, temperature, or few-shot configuration used for GPT-4.1, and without statistical significance tests on the performance deltas.

    Authors: We thank the referee for noting the missing baseline specifications. GPT-4.1 was queried in a strict zero-shot setting using the prompt template: 'Analyze the following Solidity smart contract and list all malicious developer intents from this set: [ten categories]. Return only the applicable intent labels separated by commas.' Temperature was fixed at 0.0 and top_p at 1.0 with no few-shot examples or chain-of-thought instructions. To quantify the improvement, we performed a paired bootstrap test (1,000 resamples) on the per-contract F1 scores, yielding p < 0.001 for the observed delta. These details, the exact prompt, and the statistical test results have been added to Section 6 and a new appendix on baseline configurations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; evaluation on held-out set is independent

full rationale

The paper describes standard domain-adaptive pre-training of a BERT-based model on 16,000 contracts using MLM, followed by BiLSTM multi-label classification, with performance reported on the same 10,000-contract evaluation set used in prior work. This constitutes an empirical benchmark comparison rather than a derivation that reduces to its inputs by construction. No self-definitional steps, no fitted parameters renamed as predictions, and no load-bearing self-citations that force the central F1 result are present. The performance metrics (accuracy 0.9789, F1 0.9279) are measured quantities on the stated evaluation set and do not equate to the pre-training inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim relies on standard assumptions in deep learning for NLP and the representativeness of the collected smart contract datasets.

free parameters (1)
  • BERT pre-training hyperparameters
    The domain-adaptive pre-training likely involves choices for learning rate, batch size, and number of epochs that are fitted or selected to optimize the model.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The Masked Language Modeling objective on smart contract code produces useful representations for downstream intent classification.
    This is assumed based on general success of pre-trained language models but specific to this domain adaptation.

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