AI & ML
BypassGym: A Benchmark for Evaluating AI Agents' Endpoint Defense Evasion Capabilities
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arXiv:2611.13684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence agents increasingly automate cybersecurity tasks, including offensive operations. Frequent attacks across the web make endpoint detection and response (EDR) a critical defense, but whether AI agents can evade it remains unclear. Benchmarks evaluate the offensive capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents in areas such as penetration testing and vulnerability discovery. One important capability that these benchmarks do not address is defense evasion, specifically whether an agent can develop a program that executes a payload without being blocked or terminated by a deployed EDR. We introduce BypassGym, to our knowledge the first benchmark to systematically evaluate this capability on real endpoints. Given command-and-control (C2) shellcode, an agent must generate and compile a loader that executes the payload without being blocked or terminated. A supplementary evasion knowledge skill provides domain knowledge and supports comparisons with and without this input. BypassGym is built on Proxmox VE(PVE), so the evaluation environment runs real Windows systems and EDR products inside virtual machines and returns structured detection feedback to the agent. We evaluate 5 lightweight model backends against 6 EDR products and 3 payloads, and find that even these simple models generate successful submissions, with DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash reaching 17/18 successful runs and Bitdefender allowing only 5 of 15 runs to pass. These results provide a systematic measurement of current AI agents' endpoint defense evasion capabilities and identify areas for defenders to investigate.
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