CLIProv: A Contrastive Log-to-Intelligence Multimodal Approach for Threat Detection and Provenance Analysis

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Autores principales: Li, Jingwen, Zhang, Ru, Liu, Jianyi, Zhao, Wanguo
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Publicado: 2025
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author Li, Jingwen
Zhang, Ru
Liu, Jianyi
Zhao, Wanguo
author_facet Li, Jingwen
Zhang, Ru
Liu, Jianyi
Zhao, Wanguo
contents With the increasing complexity of cyberattacks, the proactive and forward-looking nature of threat intelligence has become more crucial for threat detection and provenance analysis. However, translating high-level attack patterns described in Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) intelligence into actionable security policies remains a significant challenge. This challenge arises from the semantic gap between high-level threat intelligence and low-level provenance log. To address this issue, this paper introduces CLIProv, a novel approach for detecting threat behaviors in a host system. CLIProv employs a multimodal framework that leverages contrastive learning to align the semantics of provenance logs with threat intelligence, effectively correlating system intrusion activities with attack patterns. Furthermore, CLIProv formulates threat detection as a semantic search problem, identifying attack behaviors by searching for threat intelligence that is most semantically similar to the log sequence. By leveraging attack pattern information in threat intelligence, CLIProv identifies TTPs and generates complete and concise attack scenarios. Experimental evaluations on standard datasets show that CLIProv effectively identifies attack behaviors in system provenance logs, offering valuable references for potential techniques. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, CLIProv achieves higher precision and significantly improved detection efficiency.
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spellingShingle CLIProv: A Contrastive Log-to-Intelligence Multimodal Approach for Threat Detection and Provenance Analysis
Li, Jingwen
Zhang, Ru
Liu, Jianyi
Zhao, Wanguo
Cryptography and Security
With the increasing complexity of cyberattacks, the proactive and forward-looking nature of threat intelligence has become more crucial for threat detection and provenance analysis. However, translating high-level attack patterns described in Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) intelligence into actionable security policies remains a significant challenge. This challenge arises from the semantic gap between high-level threat intelligence and low-level provenance log. To address this issue, this paper introduces CLIProv, a novel approach for detecting threat behaviors in a host system. CLIProv employs a multimodal framework that leverages contrastive learning to align the semantics of provenance logs with threat intelligence, effectively correlating system intrusion activities with attack patterns. Furthermore, CLIProv formulates threat detection as a semantic search problem, identifying attack behaviors by searching for threat intelligence that is most semantically similar to the log sequence. By leveraging attack pattern information in threat intelligence, CLIProv identifies TTPs and generates complete and concise attack scenarios. Experimental evaluations on standard datasets show that CLIProv effectively identifies attack behaviors in system provenance logs, offering valuable references for potential techniques. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, CLIProv achieves higher precision and significantly improved detection efficiency.
title CLIProv: A Contrastive Log-to-Intelligence Multimodal Approach for Threat Detection and Provenance Analysis
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09133