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FRAGBENCH: CROSS-SESSION ATTACKS HIDDEN IN BENIGN-LOOKING FRAGMENTS

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+ Astha Mehta  ·  + Niruthiha Selvanayagam  ·  + Cedric Lam†  ·  + Hengxu Li  ·  + Phuc-Nguyen Nguyen†  ·  + Raymond Lee  ·  + Olivia McGoffin  ·  + My (Isabella) Luong†  ·  + Arthur Collé†  ·  + Jamie Johnson†  ·  + David Williams-King‡  ·  + Linh Le‡ +

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1. PROBLEM
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Attackers can bypass safety filters by decomposing malicious goals into sub-prompts or fragments that appear benign in isolation but become harmful when combined across sessions.

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This Task Decomposition is a documented tactic in several real-world cyber-incidents (Anthropic, Google GTIG, Microsoft MDDR, OpenAI reports, etc.), yet most classifiers fail to detect it because they analyze prompts individually and miss the overall malicious composition.

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Effectively defending against this misuse requires a shift from evaluating isolated prompts to modeling the entire cross-session interaction.

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CONTRIBUTIONS
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  • + Malicious Dataset
    + A corpus of fragmented cyberattacks derived from 24 real-world incident reports covering 22 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
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    Dataset Sources
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    Anthropic Threat Intel4
    Google GTIG7
    Microsoft Threat Intel5
    OpenAI Threat Intel3
    SentinelLABS / Unit 422
    Public incident reports3
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  • + Benign Dataset
    + Synthetic everyday workflows (admin, docs, IT support, etc.) matching malicious data style & length. +
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  • + FragBench-Attack
    + RL rewriter that optimizes fragments to bypass safety refusals + MCP validator to test whether the attack works end-to-end. +
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  • + FragBench-Defense
    + A user-level graph-based detector that links scattered attack fragments across sessions. +
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2. FRAGBENCH ATTACK
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2.1 FRAGMENT GENERATION
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Malicious DatasetSeed prompts from the 24 campaigns were parameterized, split into fragments by Claude Opus, and styled with 6 disguise styles.
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FRAGMENT STYLE DISGUISES
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DIRECT Tar & encrypt /home/jdoe.
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CMD_FORM One-liner to tar & AES encrypt.
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SYSADMIN Back up /home/jdoe — archival.
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EDUCATIONAL Demo AES-256 for crypto class.
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COMPLIANCE Red-team SOC-2: archive /home/jdoe.
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HELPDESK Ticket #4821: tar /home/jdoe.
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Benign DatasetSynthetic benign workflows generated using Claude Sonnet 4.5 to match the malicious data's characteristics.
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Both sets were merged into a unified schema to test against a safety judge via RL and validate end-to-end execution within an MCP sandbox.
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RL REWRITING FragBench-Attack
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RL rewriter optimized fragments to bypass safety guardrails. Raised the single-turn safety judge bypass from ~60% → ~100% within 10 RL rounds.

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Guardrail Bypass After RL Optimization
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Rewriter / JudgeOpus 4.6 /
Opus 4.6		Opus 4.6 /
Sonnet 4.6		Sonnet 4.6 /
Sonnet 4.6		DeepSeek /
Llama Guard 4
Bypass rate97.4%99.1%100.0%100.0%
Δ improvement+26.5%+18.0%+15.6%+5.6%
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2.2 MCP EXECUTION FragBench-Attack
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An actor model executed fragments via MCP tools and a checker model validated the attack chain. All activity occured within a sandboxed environment.

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3. FRAGBENCH DEFENSE
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FragBench-DefenseA graph-based classifier that identifies malicious intent by linking seemingly benign sessions.

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The graph consists of nodes representing individual tool calls—each embedded with 121-dimensional metadata features—which are connected by five edge types: data flow, temporal, shared session, shared resource, and argument similarity.

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By linking these tool calls using a weighted union-find algorithm, the system reconstructed the fragmented attack chain.

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FragBench Defense Detector Performance
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DetectorGCN
(sym-norm)		GraphSAGEGINGATMLP
(no graph)		SVM-RBFGBT
F10.9560.9480.9370.9360.9050.8810.878
Accuracy0.9470.9330.9160.9260.8610.8460.846
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Across all evaluated campaigns, the GNN-based approaches consistently achieved relatively high FI and accuracy scores, suggesting that modeling cross-session relationships is significantly more effective than analyzing prompts in isolation.

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RESULTS & DISCUSSION
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Our experiments spanned 24 campaigns and over 25,000 fragments (comprising 100 variations per campaign at ~10.6 fragments each), utilized an RL-driven pipeline that improved attack success rates to as high as 99.1%.

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This set of experiments involving over 640,000 tool calls in a sandboxed MCP environment, demonstrated that reinforcement learning effectively transforms rejected prompts into functional, evasive, decomposed attack chains.

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Defensively, GNN-based models successfully identified these hidden patterns, with the GCN achieving a leading F1 score of 0.956.

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LIMITATIONS & ETHICS
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Our benign dataset is generated by Claude Sonnet 4.5 and may possess unmeasured statistical differences from malicious data. We mitigate misuse risks by modeling only well-publicized attacks and limiting access to our RL-driven bypass prompts.

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+ GitHub: github.com/LidaSafety/fragbench  ·  + HuggingFace (public): huggingface.co/datasets/LidaSafety/fragbench  ·  + HuggingFace (gated): huggingface.co/datasets/LidaSafety/fragbench-restricted +
+ †External collaborators  ·  ‡SPAR mentors  ·  No mark: SPAR participants +
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