Hugging Face Daily PapersZhuoXin Liu, Zhiming Ma, Ying Zhang1 min readpaperadvanced
RiskChainBench: A Benchmark for Obfuscated Platform Message Restoration and Evidence-Grounded Web Investigation
Summary
RiskChainBench is a new benchmark that pairs synthetic obfuscated message restoration inputs with human‑labeled local web environments, requiring models to both decode malicious instructions and investigate the linked site. Across ten models, restoration accuracy varies widely and web‑agent failures dominate the error budget.
- The benchmark provides 3,600 synthetic restoration examples linked to 600 human‑annotated sandboxed web sessions.
- Evaluation is split: Task 1 restores message intent and destination; Task 2 runs a VLM‑driven web agent to produce an evidence‑cited risk report.
- Top‑1 entry recovery ranges from 35.2% to 95.2%; downstream web decision accuracy is only 26.3%–62.8%, highlighting a large gap.
- 31.9% of web runs fail due to exploration errors, while post‑decision typing errors are under 1%, pinpointing exploration as the main bottleneck.
Anyone building multimodal LLM agents for detecting malicious content needs an end‑to‑end benchmark that measures both decoding of obfuscated instructions and safe web investigation.
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