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TGCM: Topic-Guided Consistency Modeling for One-Step Disentanglement of Interleaved APT Technique Sequences
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arXiv:2606.18651v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multiple Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) campaigns may execute concurrently, producing audit logs whose events are interleaved without explicit campaign boundaries. We formulate this setting as Unknown-K Interleaved Sequence Demixing (UKISD): recovering coherent campaign episodes when the number of concurrent campaigns is unknown. Each episode is represented as a sequence of MITRE ATT&CK technique occurrences, and demixing is cast as occurrence-level assignment with sequence reconstruction. Existing methods often assume single-campaign observations or rely on local heuristics, limiting robustness to severe interleaving, repeated techniques, abstraction noise, and unknown mixture cardinality. We propose Topic-Guided Consistency Modeling (TGCM), a consistency-inspired one-step framework for UKISD. TGCM maps an interleaved technique sequence to campaign episodes, jointly performing occurrence assignment and sequence reconstruction in one forward pass. It combines topic guidance from ATT&CK narratives with an embedding-space self-consistency objective to improve semantic coherence and retain efficient inference. We evaluate TGCM on synthetic mixtures, mixed benchmarks, DARPA engagement traces, and CAPTure, an end-to-end benchmark containing 200 scenarios, 855 million audit events, and 25 ATT&CK-aligned attack profiles in single-host and multi-host settings. TGCM improves occurrence-level assignment under heavy interleaving, repeated technique reuse, symbolic extraction errors, and budgeted unknown-K inference. It also generalizes to unseen benchmarks without retraining and remains effective with practical ATT&CK extraction pipelines. These results establish TGCM as a practical post-abstraction framework for reasoning about concurrent APT campaigns. Code and artifacts are available at https://irish-kw.github.io/TGCM_Website/.
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