Vision-Based Learning for Cyberattack Detection in Blockchain Smart Contracts and Transactions

Do Hai Son; Le Vu Hieu; Tran Viet Khoa; Yibeltal F. Alem; Hoang Trong Minh; Tran Thi Thuy Quynh; Nguyen Viet Ha; Nguyen Linh Trung

Paper

Vision-Based Learning for Cyberattack Detection in Blockchain Smart Contracts and Transactions

Abstract

Blockchain technology has experienced rapid growth and has been widely adopted across various sectors, including healthcare, finance, and energy. However, blockchain platforms remain vulnerable to a broad range of cyberattacks, particularly those aimed at exploiting transactions and smart contracts (SCs) to steal digital assets or compromise system integrity. To address this issue, we propose a novel and effective framework for detecting cyberattacks within blockchain systems. Our framework begins with a preprocessing tool that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to transform key features of blockchain transactions into image representations. These images are then analyzed through vision-based analysis using Vision Transformers (ViT), a recent advancement in computer vision known for its superior ability to capture complex patterns and semantic relationships. By integrating NLP-based preprocessing with vision-based learning, our framework can detect a wide variety of attack types. Experimental evaluations on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of both accuracy (achieving 99.5%) and robustness in cyberattack detection for blockchain transactions and SCs.