Beyond Detection: Agentic Attack Synthesis and Simulation for Smart Contracts

arXiv:2607.15673 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-07-17 · Read on arXiv

Xianhao Zhang, Jing Sun, Zijian Zhang, Ye Liu, Zhe Hou, Jiaqi Gao, Yuqiang Sun

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-07-17

Code: https://github.com/ConsenSysDiligence/mythril

Project page: https://www.anthropic.com

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Automated Exploit Generation — 9× in this paper
• Verification — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge-Augmented Attack Synthesis and Simulation — 4× in this paper
• Analyzer — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Inference — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Information Gain — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Software Engineering — 3× in this paper
• Iterative Refinement — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-Agent Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Coding — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy — 2× in this paper
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Pruning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering — 1× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Formal Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaborative Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Smart Contract Weakness Classification — 1× in this paper
• Structured Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Prompt to Pwn: Automated Exploit Generation for Smart Contracts
• A Systematic Literature Review on Automated Exploit and Security Test Generation

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