Beyond Heavy Log Curation: Perplexity-Based APT Detection via Unsupervised, Context-Augmented Language Models

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.20832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) remain difficult to detect because only a small fraction of events in large-scale logs are attack-related, and investigation is expensive and hard to scale. Prior machine-learning approaches can reduce analyst workload, but they often rely on heavily curated training data and sophisticated preprocessing pipelines. Building and maintaining such pipelines require substantial domain expertise and engineering cost. Motivated by insights from a study of a strong APT detection baseline, we propose CAPTAIN (Context-Augmented Perplexity-based Threat Activity log detectIoN), a perplexity-based detector that leverages general, pre-trained language models with minimal, domain-agnostic preprocessing, enabling robust s