arXiv:2505.14418cs.CL2025-05EMNLP被引 16

发现多模态大模型手机界面代理存在隐蔽后门漏洞,可精准操控且不降低正常功能。

Hidden Ghost Hand: Unveiling Backdoor Vulnerabilities in MLLM-Powered Mobile GUI Agents

  • 通过组合目标与交互层级触发器,构建隐蔽后门攻击框架。
  • 攻击成功率高达99.7%,仅导致1%功能下降,极难被察觉。
  • 适用于测试各类开源界面代理,适合安全研究人员关注。

由多模态大语言模型(MLLM)驱动的图形用户界面(GUI)代理在人机交互中展现出巨大潜力。然而,由于微调成本高,用户常依赖开源代理或厂商提供的API,引入了未被充分重视的供应链威胁:后门攻击。本文首次揭示,基于MLLM的GUI代理天然存在多个交互级触发器,如历史操作步骤、环境状态和任务进度。基于此,我们提出AgentGhost框架,一种高效且隐蔽的红队后门攻击方法。首先,通过组合目标层与交互层触发器,使代理在保持任务可用性的同时意外激活后门。其次,将后门注入建模为最小-最大优化问题,利用有监督对比学习最大化表示空间中不同类别样本的特征差异,提升后门灵活性;同时采用有监督微调,最小化后门与正常行为生成间的差异,增强攻击效果与实用性。在两个主流移动端基准上的广泛评估表明,AgentGhost具有普适性与高效性,三种攻击目标的准确率均达99.7%,且仅造成1%的功能退化,具备高度隐蔽性。此外,我们设计了一种针对性防御方法,可将攻击准确率降至22.1%。代码已公开于匿名链接。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents powered by multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown greater promise for human-interaction. However, due to the high fine-tuning cost, users often rely on open-source GUI agents or APIs offered by AI providers, which introduces a critical but underexplored supply chain threat: backdoor attacks. In this work, we first unveil that MLLM-powered GUI agents naturally expose multiple interaction-level triggers, such as historical steps, environment states, and task progress. Based on this observation, we introduce AgentGhost, an effective and stealthy framework for red-teaming backdoor attacks. Specifically, we first construct composite triggers by combining goal and interaction levels, allowing GUI agents to unintentionally activate backdoors while ensuring task utility. Then, we formulate backdoor injection as a Min-Max optimization problem that uses supervised contrastive learning to maximize the feature difference across sample classes at the representation space, improving flexibility of the backdoor. Meanwhile, it adopts supervised fine-tuning to minimize the discrepancy between backdoor and clean behavior generation, enhancing effectiveness and utility. Extensive evaluations of various agent models in two established mobile benchmarks show that AgentGhost is effective and generic, with attack accuracy that reaches 99.7\% on three attack objectives, and shows stealthiness with only 1\% utility degradation. Furthermore, we tailor a defense method against AgentGhost that reduces the attack accuracy to 22.1\%. Our code is available at \texttt{anonymous}.

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