The Anatomy of Address Poisoning on Ethereum: Funding Mechanisms, Scam Signatures, and Laundering via Tornado Cash

2026-09-20

AI Summary

本文研究了以太坊地址中毒问题，通过分析资金机制、诈骗特征及Tornado Cash洗钱途径，提出五种诈骗签名方法用于地址聚类。

Abstract

Address-Poisoning Transfer (APT) is a prevalent blockchain phishing scam in which a scammer poisons a victim's address book by generating a transfer with a phishing address that looks similar to a benign address that the victim has previously interacted with. Although simple, APT phishing attacks have cost users millions of dollars in recent years, which has captured the attention of the research community (Ye et al. WWW'24, Guan-Li CCS'24, Chen et al. NDSS'25, Tsuchiya et al. USENIX'25). In this work, we go beyond detection and investigate three important and underexplored aspects of APT: scam funding mechanisms, scam signatures, and scam proceeds laundering via public services. In particular, we propose five families of scam signatures that capture key aspects of APT operations, which are useful for address clustering. We also conduct the first investigation into usage of Tornado Cash for funding APTs and laundering scam proceeds.

Problem

• Address-Poisoning Transfer
• Ethereum
• Tornado Cash

Innovation

• Address-Poisoning Transfer (APT)
• scam signatures
• Tornado Cash