Towards Next-Generation Steganalysis: LLMs Unleash the Power of Detecting Steganography

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Main Authors: Yang, Minhao Bai. Jinshuai, Pang, Kaiyi, Wang, Huili, Huang, Yongfeng
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author Yang, Minhao Bai. Jinshuai
Pang, Kaiyi
Wang, Huili
Huang, Yongfeng
author_facet Yang, Minhao Bai. Jinshuai
Pang, Kaiyi
Wang, Huili
Huang, Yongfeng
contents Linguistic steganography provides convenient implementation to hide messages, particularly with the emergence of AI generation technology. The potential abuse of this technology raises security concerns within societies, calling for powerful linguistic steganalysis to detect carrier containing steganographic messages. Existing methods are limited to finding distribution differences between steganographic texts and normal texts from the aspect of symbolic statistics. However, the distribution differences of both kinds of texts are hard to build precisely, which heavily hurts the detection ability of the existing methods in realistic scenarios. To seek a feasible way to construct practical steganalysis in real world, this paper propose to employ human-like text processing abilities of large language models (LLMs) to realize the difference from the aspect of human perception, addition to traditional statistic aspect. Specifically, we systematically investigate the performance of LLMs in this task by modeling it as a generative paradigm, instead of traditional classification paradigm. Extensive experiment results reveal that generative LLMs exhibit significant advantages in linguistic steganalysis and demonstrate performance trends distinct from traditional approaches. Results also reveal that LLMs outperform existing baselines by a wide margin, and the domain-agnostic ability of LLMs makes it possible to train a generic steganalysis model (Both codes and trained models are openly available in https://github.com/ba0z1/Linguistic-Steganalysis-with-LLMs).
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spellingShingle Towards Next-Generation Steganalysis: LLMs Unleash the Power of Detecting Steganography
Yang, Minhao Bai. Jinshuai
Pang, Kaiyi
Wang, Huili
Huang, Yongfeng
Cryptography and Security
Linguistic steganography provides convenient implementation to hide messages, particularly with the emergence of AI generation technology. The potential abuse of this technology raises security concerns within societies, calling for powerful linguistic steganalysis to detect carrier containing steganographic messages. Existing methods are limited to finding distribution differences between steganographic texts and normal texts from the aspect of symbolic statistics. However, the distribution differences of both kinds of texts are hard to build precisely, which heavily hurts the detection ability of the existing methods in realistic scenarios. To seek a feasible way to construct practical steganalysis in real world, this paper propose to employ human-like text processing abilities of large language models (LLMs) to realize the difference from the aspect of human perception, addition to traditional statistic aspect. Specifically, we systematically investigate the performance of LLMs in this task by modeling it as a generative paradigm, instead of traditional classification paradigm. Extensive experiment results reveal that generative LLMs exhibit significant advantages in linguistic steganalysis and demonstrate performance trends distinct from traditional approaches. Results also reveal that LLMs outperform existing baselines by a wide margin, and the domain-agnostic ability of LLMs makes it possible to train a generic steganalysis model (Both codes and trained models are openly available in https://github.com/ba0z1/Linguistic-Steganalysis-with-LLMs).
title Towards Next-Generation Steganalysis: LLMs Unleash the Power of Detecting Steganography
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09090