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arxiv: 2506.06226 · v3 · submitted 2025-06-06 · 💻 cs.CR

No Data? No Problem: Synthesizing Security Graphs for Better Intrusion Detection

Yi Huang , Shaofei Li , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen , Ding Li , Wajih Ul Hassan This is my paper

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keywords provenance graphsintrusion detectionAPT detectiongraph synthesisdata augmentationlarge language modelsgraph neural networkssecurity graphs
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PROVSYN synthesizes high-fidelity provenance graphs to improve intrusion detection accuracy by up to 38 percent

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Provenance graphs help expose attack patterns in intrusion detection systems but real-world collections suffer from severe class imbalance that weakens training. The paper introduces PROVSYN, a hybrid framework that creates new graphs by generating their structure with heterogeneous graph models and filling in textual attributes with fine-tuned large language models. It then scores the results on five fidelity dimensions and compares them against four existing synthesis methods across six benchmark datasets. When the synthetic graphs are added to training data, they reduce imbalance and raise the accuracy of downstream detection models by as much as 38 percent. This matters because it offers a direct way to build stronger detectors without waiting for more real attack traces to appear.

Core claim

PROVSYN is a hybrid provenance graph synthesis framework comprising graph structure synthesis via heterogeneous graph generation models, textual attribute synthesis via fine-tuned large language models, and five-dimensional fidelity evaluation. On six benchmark datasets the method produces higher-fidelity graphs than four strong baselines; when the resulting graphs augment training sets they improve normalized entropy by up to 35 percent and raise downstream APT detection accuracy by up to 38 percent.

What carries the argument

PROVSYN, the three-part hybrid framework that pairs heterogeneous graph generation models for structure, fine-tuned LLMs for textual attributes, and a five-dimensional fidelity evaluation to verify quality before use in augmentation.

If this is right

  • Augmented training sets allow graph neural networks combined with NLP to learn rare APT patterns that were previously under-represented.
  • Higher-fidelity synthetic graphs reduce the chance that models learn spurious features introduced by poor synthesis.
  • Improved normalized entropy directly supports more balanced class distributions across multiple existing benchmark collections.
  • Downstream models become more generalizable, performing better on attack variants not seen during original data collection.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • The same structure-plus-attribute synthesis approach could be tested on other scarce security graphs such as those used for malware or fraud detection.
  • Embedding the synthesis step inside an online monitoring system might let detectors adapt continuously as new threat patterns emerge.
  • Measuring how each of the five fidelity dimensions correlates with specific detection-error reductions could guide more targeted synthesis improvements.

Load-bearing premise

That gains measured on benchmark datasets and five fidelity metrics will carry over to real-world networks without introducing misleading artifacts or harmful distribution shifts.

What would settle it

Train detection models on original data versus original-plus-synthetic data, then measure accuracy and false-positive rates on a fresh, previously unseen real-world network trace containing actual APT activity.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.06226 by Ding Li, Shaofei Li, Wajih Ul Hassan, Xiangqun Chen, Yao Guo, Yi Huang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: PROVSYN Architecture. First, a heterogeneous graph generation model is employed to generate the initial structure of a provenance graph. Subsequently, the topology of the graph is refined according to predefined rules. Finally, a large language model is used to synthesize the textual attributes of the nodes within the provenance graph. Here, femb is the embedding function that maps edge tu￾ples to a vector… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison of semantic accurary across different models and datasets. Higher values indicate better performance. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Entity Type and Event Type Distribution in Provenance Dataset including Nodlink, Cadets, Theia and Trace. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Hidden size setting in Nodlink dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Inference temperature setting in Nodlink dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Ablation Study. 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
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Provenance graph analysis plays a vital role in intrusion detection, particularly against Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), by exposing complex attack patterns. While recent systems combine graph neural networks (GNNs) with natural language processing (NLP) to capture structural and semantic features, their effectiveness is limited by class imbalance in real-world data. To address this, we introduce PROVSYN, a novel hybrid provenance graph synthesis framework, which comprises three components: (1) graph structure synthesis via heterogeneous graph generation models, (2) textual attribute synthesis via fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs), and (3) five-dimensional fidelity evaluation. Experiments on six benchmark datasets demonstrate that PROVSYN consistently produces higher-fidelity graphs across the five evaluation dimensions compared to four strong baselines. To further demonstrate the practical utility of PROVSYN, we utilize the synthesized graphs to augment training datasets for downstream APT detection models. The results show that PROVSYN effectively mitigates data imbalance, improving normalized entropy by up to 35%, and enhances the generalizability of downstream detection models, achieving an accuracy improvement of up to 38%.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces PROVSYN, a hybrid provenance graph synthesis framework with three components: heterogeneous graph generation for structure, fine-tuned LLMs for textual attribute synthesis, and five-dimensional fidelity evaluation. Experiments on six benchmark datasets claim that PROVSYN produces higher-fidelity graphs than four baselines across the five dimensions; augmenting training data with the synthesized graphs is reported to mitigate imbalance (normalized entropy gains up to 35%) and improve downstream APT detection accuracy by up to 38%.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold under rigorous controls, the work could help address data scarcity and imbalance in provenance-based intrusion detection, a practical bottleneck for GNN+NLP models targeting APTs. The hybrid graph-plus-LLM synthesis approach is a reasonable direction, though its value depends on whether fidelity metrics translate to real-world robustness.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4 and §5] §4 (Experiments) and §5 (Results): the abstract and results sections report quantitative gains on six datasets and four baselines but supply no details on experimental controls, statistical testing, exact definitions or formulas for the five fidelity dimensions, or how baselines were re-implemented. This absence prevents verification that the reported fidelity and accuracy improvements (up to 38%) are not artifacts of uncontrolled variables.
  2. [§5.3] §5.3 (Downstream evaluation): the claim that synthesized graphs enhance generalizability rests on accuracy lifts measured within the same benchmark distributions used for synthesis. No cross-distribution or out-of-distribution test on live enterprise APT traces is presented, leaving the transfer assumption—that high five-dimensional fidelity preserves causal/temporal invariants and avoids harmful distribution shifts—untested and load-bearing for the practical-utility conclusion.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the five evaluation dimensions are referenced but never enumerated; a single sentence listing them would improve readability.
  2. [Figures/Tables] Figure and table captions throughout: ensure each explicitly states the five fidelity metrics, the four baselines, and the exact datasets so that results can be interpreted without cross-referencing the text.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thorough review and constructive comments on our paper. We address each major comment below, providing clarifications and indicating the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§4 and §5] §4 (Experiments) and §5 (Results): the abstract and results sections report quantitative gains on six datasets and four baselines but supply no details on experimental controls, statistical testing, exact definitions or formulas for the five fidelity dimensions, or how baselines were re-implemented. This absence prevents verification that the reported fidelity and accuracy improvements (up to 38%) are not artifacts of uncontrolled variables.

    Authors: We agree that additional details are necessary for reproducibility and verification. In the revised manuscript, we will expand Sections 4 and 5 to include comprehensive descriptions of experimental controls (e.g., random seeds, data splits, and environment specifications), statistical significance testing with p-values and confidence intervals for all reported metrics, precise mathematical definitions and formulas for the five fidelity dimensions, and detailed re-implementation procedures for the four baselines, including any modifications or hyperparameters used. This will enable independent verification of the results. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5.3] §5.3 (Downstream evaluation): the claim that synthesized graphs enhance generalizability rests on accuracy lifts measured within the same benchmark distributions used for synthesis. No cross-distribution or out-of-distribution test on live enterprise APT traces is presented, leaving the transfer assumption—that high five-dimensional fidelity preserves causal/temporal invariants and avoids harmful distribution shifts—untested and load-bearing for the practical-utility conclusion.

    Authors: The six benchmark datasets are widely used in the field and cover a range of scenarios, allowing us to demonstrate consistent improvements. The five-dimensional fidelity evaluation is intended to ensure that key invariants are preserved. However, we acknowledge the value of OOD testing. Due to the sensitive nature of real enterprise APT traces, such data is not publicly available, which limited our ability to perform cross-distribution tests in this work. We will add a discussion of this limitation and the assumptions made in the revised version. Future extensions could involve synthetic OOD scenarios or collaborations for real traces. revision: partial

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  • Access to live enterprise APT traces for out-of-distribution testing is restricted due to privacy and security concerns, preventing direct empirical validation of transfer to real-world distributions in the current study.

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full rationale

The paper introduces PROVSYN as a three-component synthesis framework and reports measured improvements in fidelity metrics and downstream accuracy on six independent benchmark datasets. No equations, parameter-fitting steps, or self-citation chains are described that would reduce any claimed result to a tautology or to the authors' own inputs by construction. All reported gains (entropy, accuracy) are presented as experimental outcomes rather than predictions derived from fitted parameters within the same work. The evaluation therefore remains self-contained against external data.

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Only the abstract is available, so no specific free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be extracted. The approach implicitly assumes that current graph generation models and fine-tuned LLMs can faithfully reproduce the joint structural-semantic distribution of real provenance graphs without systematic bias.

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