通过注入语义级界面元素,黑盒攻击图形代理的视觉注意力。
Are GUI Agents Focused Enough? Automated Distraction via Semantic-level UI Element Injection

- 用可迭代优化的界面元素叠加法,黑盒误导代理视觉理解。
- 对19个模型攻击成功率提升3.5至6.9倍,且跨架构几乎完美迁移。
- 注入图标成持久吸引点,15%以上后续仍被误点击,适合安全测试者。
现有图形界面代理的红队测试面临两大局限:对抗扰动需白盒访问,而提示注入已被更强的安全对齐所抑制。为在更贴近实际的威胁模型下研究鲁棒性,我们提出语义级界面元素注入(Semantic-level UI Element Injection),通过在截图上叠加安全对齐且无害的界面元素,误导代理的视觉定位。该方法采用模块化编辑-覆盖-目标管道,结合迭代搜索策略,采样多个候选修改,保留最佳累积覆盖,并根据先前失败调整后续提示策略。在涵盖8个模型家族的19个目标模型上实验表明,策略性优化显著优于随机注入(最鲁棒受害者提升3.5–6.9倍),且跨架构迁移近乎完美,证实了模型无关的视觉-语义漏洞。首次攻击成功后,目标模型在超过15%的后续独立测试中仍会点击攻击者控制的图标,而随机注入低于1%,表明精心放置的图标具有持续吸引力,因果性地重定向视觉锚定而非仅引入偶然干扰。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Existing red-teaming studies on GUI agents face two fundamental limitations: adversarial perturbations require white-box access unavailable in commercial deployments, while prompt injection is increasingly neutralized by stronger safety alignment. To study robustness under a more practical threat model, we propose Semantic-level UI Element Injection, a black-box red-teaming paradigm that overlays safety-aligned and harmless UI elements onto screenshots to misdirect the agent's visual grounding. Our method couples a modular Editor--Overlapper--Victim pipeline with iterative search that samples multiple candidate edits, keeps the best cumulative overlay, and adapts future prompt strategies based on previous failures. Experiments across 19 victim models spanning 8 model families show that strategic optimization substantially outperforms random injection (3.5-6.9x on the most robust victims) and transfers near-perfectly across architectures, confirming model-agnostic visual-semantic vulnerabilities. After the first successful attack, the victim still clicks the attacker-controlled icon in over 15\% of subsequent independent trials versus below 1% for random injection, establishing that strategically placed icons act as persistent attractors that causally redirect grounding rather than introducing incidental clutter.
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