DistillGuard: Malicious NPM Package Detection and API Attack Chain Analysis via Static Graph and LLM Distillation

arXiv:2609.28996 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/microsoft/OSSGadget

Terminology

• Distillation — 21× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 15× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 12× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Accuracy — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• F1 Score — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 8× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Analyzer — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Feature Extraction — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Software Engineering — 3× in this paper
• Semantic Understanding — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Concept Drift — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Feature Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Information Leakage — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Automated Software Engineering — 2× in this paper
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LoRA Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
• Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• OpenAI GPT-5 System Card
• How Effective Are NPM Malicious Package Detectors? A Large-Scale Empirical Study
• PoCGen: Generating Proof-of-Concept Exploits for Vulnerabilities in Npm Packages

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