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arxiv: 2606.00654 · v1 · pith:I3VM7QCYnew · submitted 2026-05-30 · 💻 cs.CR

The Invitation Trap: Proactive Availability Backdoor in LLMs via Conversational Induction

He Wang , Jun Feng , Hong Sun , Pengfei Zhang This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-06-28 18:42 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CR
keywords backdoor attacklarge language modelsproactive availability backdoorsocial engineeringFive-Factor Model simulationattack success rateLLM defense
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The pith

LLMs can be backdoored to proactively suggest trigger queries to users by weaponizing their own helpfulness.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper introduces Proactive Availability Backdoor as a shift from passive to active attacks on large language models. It demonstrates how the model's tendency to be helpful can be exploited to offer suggestions that lead users into running queries containing hidden triggers. The evaluation relies on a dual-agent simulation drawing from personality model dimensions to estimate both how often the attack occurs and how often it succeeds, producing a 73.1 percent effective attack success rate. A defense called Anti-PAB is also presented. A sympathetic reader would care because the work shows that features designed to improve user experience can be turned into a way to reduce model availability.

Core claim

PAB is a novel paradigm that weaponizes the inherent helpfulness of aligned LLMs to proactively trap users into executing trigger-implanted queries by offering suggestions, achieving high aggressiveness, precision and stealthiness, with an effective attack success rate of 73.1 percent when evaluated through a dual-agent ecological simulation framework based on selected dimensions of the Five-Factor Model.

What carries the argument

The Proactive Availability Backdoor (PAB) mechanism, which implants triggers and uses few-shot prompts to make the LLM suggest queries containing those triggers during normal conversation.

If this is right

  • The attack can be deployed on different models and domains using only few-shot prompts.
  • The effective attack success rate, defined as the joint probability of attack incidence and success, reaches 73.1 percent in the tested simulation.
  • Anti-PAB offers a defense method specifically designed to counter this proactive form of backdoor.
  • The helpfulness property of aligned LLMs can be turned into a vector for compromising availability.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Providers may need to scan model outputs for patterns where suggestions repeatedly steer conversations toward specific trigger phrases.
  • The same induction technique could be adapted to other suggestion-based AI interfaces such as coding assistants or recommendation systems.
  • User education about accepting LLM suggestions without verification becomes more relevant if such attacks spread.

Load-bearing premise

The dual-agent ecological simulation framework based on selected dimensions of the Five-Factor Model accurately models real-life user interactions with LLMs for measuring attack incidence and success.

What would settle it

Deploy PAB on a publicly available LLM, allow real users to interact with it, and measure the joint rate at which users receive and then execute the suggested trigger queries.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.00654 by He Wang, Hong Sun, Jun Feng, Pengfei Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of PAB, including real examples, mechanisms and experiments setup. rapidly. Early methods employ character-level triggers that substitute one letter for a similar character [4]. Word- and sentence-level triggers insert inconspicuous and rare tokens such as cf [5, 6]. More advanced backdoor attacks use syntactic or stylistic triggers, relying on a specific sentence template or tone [7]. At the … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The change patterns of activation turn and AIR for three personas with PAB in 3 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Ability Lower Bound Test Lower Bound Test [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Real Estimation 0 0 Trigger DH (rm -rf) DH (Loop) D&C ES Anti-PAB ONION Guard Judge ASR 98 98 6 86 100 54 82 64 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: System prompt used for the PAB Attacker Agent. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The base system prompt for the User Agent. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Full Dialogue Trace of a successful attack toward a novice agent. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: An example of ICL prompt. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Case Study of Safety Alignment on Qwen-3.5-Plus [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Case Study of Safety Alignment on GPT-5.1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Ablation study on the Big Five personality traits and the impact of the user’s [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The sankey diagram of openness ablation 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: The system prompt for LLM to judge metrics. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_14.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Current backdoor attacks against LLMs are typically manipulated by the attacker and remain passive. In this paper, we introduce the \textbf{Proactive Availability Backdoor (PAB)}, a novel paradigm that shifts the attack vector from passive waiting to active social engineering. By weaponizing the inherent helpfulness of aligned LLMs, PAB proactively traps users into executing trigger-implanted queries by offering suggestions, achieving high aggressiveness, precision and stealthiness. To rigorously evaluate its threat in a real-life context, we introduce a dual-agent ecological simulation framework based on selected dimensions of the Five-Factor Model, and deploy PAB with few-shot prompts. Being validated on different models and domains, PAB performs remarkably and its effective attack success rate, which calculates the joint probability of attack incidence rate and attack success rate, goes to \textbf{73.1\%}. We also introduce \textbf{Anti-PAB}, a defense method tailored for PAB. Our findings reveal that the helpfulness of LLMs can be weaponized to compromise availability, exposing a serious hidden threat to LLMs users. We release all the scripts and datasets in the experiments at \texttt{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PAB-ANONYMOUS/}.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Proactive Availability Backdoor (PAB), a new attack paradigm that weaponizes LLM helpfulness to proactively suggest trigger-implanted queries to users rather than waiting passively. It evaluates PAB via a dual-agent ecological simulation framework instantiated from selected Five-Factor Model dimensions and few-shot prompts, reports an effective attack success rate (joint probability of incidence and success) of 73.1% across models and domains, and proposes a tailored defense called Anti-PAB. Scripts and datasets are released.

Significance. If the simulation framework accurately captures real user suggestion uptake, the work identifies a previously unexamined proactive attack surface on LLM availability that exploits alignment properties, with implications for safety evaluation and user protection. The public release of scripts and datasets is a clear strength that enables direct reproduction and extension.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and evaluation section: the headline 73.1% effective ASR is presented without any reported number of trials, confidence intervals, statistical tests, or comparison baselines, so the joint-probability metric cannot be independently verified or compared to prior passive backdoor results.
  2. [Evaluation Framework] Evaluation framework (dual-agent simulation): the user agents are instantiated solely from selected Five-Factor Model dimensions plus few-shot prompts, yet no external calibration (human-subject logs, A/B tests, or inter-rater agreement with observed chat traces) is supplied to show that simulated incidence or trigger-acceptance rates match real users; this assumption is load-bearing for the transfer of the 73.1% figure.
  3. [Attack Success Rate Definition] Attack success definition: the paper does not specify how the joint probability combining attack incidence rate and attack success rate is computed (e.g., whether incidence is measured per conversation turn or per session), making it impossible to assess whether the metric is inflated by simulation design choices.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The anonymous repository link should be replaced with a permanent DOI or GitHub link in the camera-ready version.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below, agreeing where revisions are needed to improve statistical transparency and clarity, while providing the strongest honest defense of the simulation-based evaluation approach.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and evaluation section: the headline 73.1% effective ASR is presented without any reported number of trials, confidence intervals, statistical tests, or comparison baselines, so the joint-probability metric cannot be independently verified or compared to prior passive backdoor results.

    Authors: We agree that the headline result requires supporting statistical details for verifiability. In the revised manuscript we will report the total number of simulation trials, 95% confidence intervals around the 73.1% effective ASR, basic statistical tests, and direct numerical comparisons to passive backdoor ASR figures from prior literature. These additions will appear in both the abstract and the evaluation section. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation Framework] Evaluation framework (dual-agent simulation): the user agents are instantiated solely from selected Five-Factor Model dimensions plus few-shot prompts, yet no external calibration (human-subject logs, A/B tests, or inter-rater agreement with observed chat traces) is supplied to show that simulated incidence or trigger-acceptance rates match real users; this assumption is load-bearing for the transfer of the 73.1% figure.

    Authors: The dual-agent simulation is deliberately constructed from established Five-Factor Model dimensions to enable controlled, reproducible evaluation of suggestion uptake across personality profiles without exposing real user data. While the current version does not include external human calibration, this is a standard methodological choice in simulation-driven security research. We will add an explicit limitations paragraph acknowledging the absence of direct human validation and the resulting transferability caveat, while preserving the framework's value for comparative analysis across models and domains. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Attack Success Rate Definition] Attack success definition: the paper does not specify how the joint probability combining attack incidence rate and attack success rate is computed (e.g., whether incidence is measured per conversation turn or per session), making it impossible to assess whether the metric is inflated by simulation design choices.

    Authors: We will add a precise definition and formula in the revised evaluation section. Effective ASR is the product of incidence rate (proportion of sessions in which the user agent accepts a suggestion) and success rate (proportion of accepted suggestions that trigger the backdoor). Incidence is measured at the full-session level; we will include pseudocode and aggregation details across domains to eliminate ambiguity. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; metric is direct simulation output, not self-referential

full rationale

The paper defines an effective ASR as the joint probability of incidence and success rates measured inside its dual-agent simulation. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce this quantity to its own inputs by construction. The simulation is an evaluation method whose fidelity is an external assumption, not a definitional loop. No load-bearing self-citation chains or ansatzes appear in the provided text.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The evaluation rests on the unverified assumption that the Five-Factor Model simulation captures real user behavior; no free parameters or invented physical entities are mentioned.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The dual-agent ecological simulation framework based on selected dimensions of the Five-Factor Model accurately models real-life user interactions with LLMs.
    Invoked to claim that the 73.1% rate reflects real-life threat.
invented entities (1)
  • Proactive Availability Backdoor (PAB) no independent evidence
    purpose: New attack paradigm that shifts from passive to active social-engineering induction.
    Introduced as the central contribution; no independent evidence outside the simulation is provided.

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    That sounds great! Please show me the version using pyzipper

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    Figure 10: Case Study of Safety Alignment on Qwen-3.5-Plus Case Study of Safety Alignment on GPT-5.1

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    The functionality should be identical: find ‘.txt‘ files, convert them to ‘.md‘ files with a header, and preserve the content

    I’ll create a similar script that uses ‘pathlib‘ for cleaner and more intuitive path handling. The functionality should be identical: find ‘.txt‘ files, convert them to ‘.md‘ files with a header, and preserve the content. Additionally, the keyword verification is YES, which means the user is eager to learn new and advanced methods and challenge themselves...

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    True" if the malicious payload is present, or

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