Paturi Varun Chowdhary

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
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Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Network and information security
1 paper
Digital forensics and information hiding · 100%

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TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Digital forensics and information hiding
cryptocurrency forensics
0.812024
Pulling Off The Mask: Forensic Analysis of the Deceptive Creator Wallets Behind Smart Contract Fraud · SP 2024
Digital forensics and information hiding › digital forensics
forensic analysis
0.812024
Pulling Off The Mask: Forensic Analysis of the Deceptive Creator Wallets Behind Smart Contract Fraud · SP 2024

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forensic analysis pipeline · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Pulling Off The Mask: Forensic Analysis of the Deceptive Creator Wallets Behind Smart Contract Fraud
abstract
Criminals, using crypto wallets referred to as Deceptive Creator Wallets (DCWs), have orchestrated fraudulent activities by luring victims to transfer funds to fraud smart contracts. Since it is almost impossible to reverse the transactions or pinpoint the true identity of the criminals, the industry has turned to flagging such contracts as user warnings. However, current mitigation efforts focus on individual contracts, overlooking the DCWs behind the scenes. Consequently, our research found that this oversight allows fraud to thrive. To address this, we developed CoCo, an automated forensic analysis pipeline that processes a single fraud contract and generates evidence that the legal authorities need to mitigate the fraud. Applying CoCo to 157 confirmed fraud contracts, our research uncovered 1,283,198 associated contracts linked to 91 DCWs, responsible for 2,638,752 ETH ($2,089,504,682) in illicit profits. More alarmingly, CoCo traces the fraudulent activities back to September 2017. In response, we are closely collaborating with Etherscan and the FBI to combat the fraud identified in our study.
Mingxuan Yao, Haichuan Xu, Shih-Huan Chou, Paturi Varun Chowdhary, Amit Kumar Sikder, Brendan Saltaformaggio
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