finagent-redrange 0.6.0

A reproducible, defensive red-team range for financial-services AI agents.

🛡️ FinAgent-RedRange

A reproducible, defensive red-team range for financial-services AI agents.

             

Develop proof-of-concept exploits against a mock retail-banking agent, then prove that specific guardrails close each one — end to end, from POC through regression test.
Build the attack only to prove the defense.

🔒 Defensive research only. The single target is the bundled mock agent; all data is synthetic. Every exploit ships with the control that blocks it and a regression test that keeps it closed. See SECURITY.md.

📖 New here? Start with the guided walkthrough — a narrated tour of what the range does, how to run it, and what each output means.

At a glance

Scenarios	9 — prompt injection · data poisoning · excessive agency · system-prompt leakage · unsafe output · vector/embedding weakness · unbounded consumption · supply chain · multimodal injection
Coverage	10/10 OWASP LLM risks (9 dedicated POC+control scenarios — incl. a multimodal input surface — + LLM02 & LLM09 as impact tags) · both OWASP agentic schemes — Threats & Mitigations (T1/T2/T3/T4/T6) and the 2026 Top 10 for Agentic Applications (ASI01–04, 06, 09) · MITRE ATLAS · NIST AI RMF
Result	every attack 🔴 exploited (controls off) → 🟢 blocked (controls on); mean AIRQ heuristic High → Medium
Extras	permission-checked tool loop · sweep + adaptive-LLM autonomous attacker · semantic real-model oracle · md / json / html scorecard
Handouts	ready-to-use exports for security teams — Sigma detection pack (measured precision) · SARIF 2.1.0 findings · GSN assurance case · regulatory crosswalk (NIST/ISO 42001/EU AI Act) · ATLAS Navigator coverage layer. See docs/HANDOUTS.md
Runs	fully offline & deterministic — no API key · 97 tests green in CI (Python 3.11 / 3.12)
Try it	pip install finagent-redrange && python -m finagent_redrange run (or pip install -e ".[dev]" from a clone)

The headline artifact: python -m finagent_redrange run regenerates this scorecard (md / json / html).

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Threat model

flowchart LR
    U[User / Attacker] -->|prompt| GR_IN[Input guardrails]
    IMG[(Image input<br/>vision / OCR)] -->|extracted text| GR_IN
    GR_IN --> A[Banking agent<br/>LLM planner]
    DOCS[(Policy & knowledge<br/>RAG corpus)] -->|retrieved context| GR_RET[Retrieval guardrails<br/>allowlist · integrity · provenance]
    GR_RET --> A
    A -->|tool calls| GR_ACT[Action guardrails<br/>high-risk authorization]
    GR_ACT --> T{Tool layer<br/>+ permission checks}
    T --> BAL[get_balance]
    T --> XFER[transfer_funds]
    T --> KYC[lookup_kyc]
    T --> TXN[list_transactions]
    T --> TIX[create_support_ticket]
    A -->|draft answer| GR_OUT[Output guardrails<br/>PII · leak · link filters]
    GR_OUT -->|final answer| U

    %% attack surfaces (the nine scenarios — full OWASP LLM Top 10 + a multimodal input surface)
    INJ([Indirect prompt injection]):::atk -.poisons.-> DOCS
    POI([Data poisoning]):::atk -.corrupts.-> DOCS
    AGY([Excessive agency]):::atk -.coerces.-> T
    LEAK([System-prompt leakage]):::atk -.extracts.-> A
    OUT([Unsafe output handling]):::atk -.rides out via.-> GR_OUT
    VEC([Vector/embedding weakness]):::atk -.cross-tenant leak via.-> DOCS
    CON([Unbounded consumption]):::atk -.floods.-> T
    SUP([Supply chain]):::atk -.injects malicious tool into.-> T
    MM([Multimodal injection]):::atk -.hides in.-> IMG

    classDef atk fill:#fde,stroke:#c39,color:#000;

Modeled attack surfaces: indirect prompt injection via retrieved documents, data poisoning of the trusted knowledge store, excessive agency / tool misuse, system-prompt leakage, unsafe output handling, vector/embedding weakness (cross-session retrieval), unbounded consumption (tool-budget exhaustion), supply chain (malicious third-party tool), and multimodal injection (an instruction hidden in an uploaded image's OCR text) — full OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage plus a multimodal input surface. Surfaces and findings are mapped to OWASP LLM Top 10, both OWASP agentic schemes (Threats & Mitigations T1–T15 and the 2026 Top 10 for Agentic Applications ASI01–ASI10), MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF below.

Mitigation-validation results

The point of the range: each POC must land with controls off and fail with controls on. Run python -m finagent_redrange run to regenerate results/scorecard.{md,json,html}.

Scenario	OWASP LLM	Agentic (T&M · Top 10)	ATLAS	AIRQ (off→on)	Controls off	Controls on	Validating control
Indirect prompt injection (cross-account PII)	LLM01 · LLM02	T6 · ASI01	AML.T0051.001	High → Medium	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Output PII filter (+ provenance)
Data poisoning (fabricated policy)	LLM04 · LLM09	T1 · ASI06	AML.T0070	High → Medium	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Source allowlist + integrity hash
Excessive agency (autonomous transfer)	LLM06 · LLM01	T2 · T3 · ASI02 · ASI03	AML.T0053	High → Medium	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Action-authorization guardrail
System-prompt leakage	LLM07 · LLM01	—	AML.T0056	Medium → Low	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Output system-prompt-leak detector
Unsafe output handling (malicious link)	LLM05 · LLM02	ASI09	AML.T0052.000	Medium → Low	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Output link/markup sanitiser
Vector/embedding weakness (cross-session leak)	LLM08 · LLM02	ASI03	AML.T0057	High → Medium	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Access-scoped retrieval
Unbounded consumption (tool-budget exhaustion)	LLM10	T4	AML.T0034	Medium → Low	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Per-request tool-call budget
Supply chain (malicious third-party tool)	LLM03	ASI04	AML.T0010.001	High → Medium	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Verified-publisher tool allowlist
Multimodal injection (image-borne instruction)	LLM01	ASI01	AML.T0051	Medium → Low	🔴 exploited	🟢 blocked	Multimodal input guardrail (OCR as data)

Regenerated on each run. Nine scenarios are dedicated POC+control pairs covering the full OWASP LLM Top 10 (LLM01/03/04/05/06/07/08/10 as primary risks, plus a multimodal input surface under LLM01), and all 10 once impact tags (LLM02, LLM09) are counted. The Agentic column carries both OWASP agentic schemes — the "Agentic AI — Threats and Mitigations" taxonomy (T1–T15) and the 2026 "Top 10 for Agentic Applications" (ASI01–ASI10); a cell is blank where no honest mapping exists in either. AIRQ (a heuristic defined for this project, not an external standard; AS = Attack Surface, BR = Blast Radius, DC = Defense Controls) is an illustrative analyst heuristic for prioritization, not a calibrated metric — the controls-on DC is the control's asserted strength, so "High → Medium" is the intended mitigation effect, not a measured residual-risk number. ATLAS rows are closest-fit (see the scorecard's Notes). Full matrix in results/scorecard.md.

Strategy-sweep attacker

python -m finagent_redrange auto turns an attacker loose on an objective ("extract the agent's hidden system prompt"). Two planners share one seam (attacker/engine.py): the default --planner sweep runs a deterministic fixed product of seed payloads × transforms (base64, role-play, crescendo) — offline and CI-friendly — while --planner llm (pair with --model claude) is an adaptive LLM planner that reasons about which seed + transform to try next given what's already been tried and whether it landed. With controls off it lands; with controls on it is defeated by layered defense — the base64-obfuscated probe slips past the input filter but the output canary detector catches the leak, and the direct phrasings are caught by the input filter. The headline defensive result: the control holds even as the attacker works through every strategy it has.

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/emmanuelgjr/finagent-redrange.git && cd finagent-redrange
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate   # Windows (PowerShell): .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# offline, deterministic (no API key needed) — uses the EchoClient
python -m finagent_redrange run             # all 8 scenarios, controls off then on -> scorecard
python -m finagent_redrange run --handouts  # + Sigma pack, SARIF, GSN assurance case (docs/HANDOUTS.md)
python -m finagent_redrange auto            # turn the autonomous attacker loose on an objective

# against a real model (full tool-execution loop with permission-checked tools)
cp .env.example .env             # add ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
pip install -e ".[anthropic]"    # real-model runs also need the Anthropic SDK
python -m finagent_redrange run --model claude --controls off
python -m finagent_redrange run --model claude --controls on   # mitigations enabled

pytest -q   # regression suite: with controls on, every known attack must stay blocked

Outputs land in results/ as scorecard.md (the table above), scorecard.json (machine-readable, CI-friendly), and scorecard.html (a standalone styled report for screen-sharing). Adding --handouts also writes results/sigma/ (Sigma detection rules + a labeled-replay precision report), results/findings.sarif (SARIF 2.1.0), results/assurance/ (a GSN control-effectiveness assurance case), results/compliance/ (a regulatory control crosswalk to NIST AI RMF / ISO 42001 / EU AI Act), and results/navigator/ (a MITRE ATLAS Navigator coverage layer). All are regenerated on each run; none are committed. See docs/HANDOUTS.md for what each is, what it provides per persona, and how its precision is validated.

Architecture

Package	Responsibility
target/	The system under test — a mock banking agent: a plan→act→observe tool loop over permission-checked tools, with toggleable input / retrieval / action / output guardrails
attacker/	Red-team engine: scripted run_campaign + autonomous run_autonomous (composes seeds × transforms until an oracle fires)
scenarios/	One attack class per file (9): indirect prompt injection, data poisoning, excessive agency, system-prompt leakage, unsafe output handling, vector/embedding weakness, unbounded consumption, supply chain, multimodal injection — full OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage + a multimodal input surface
scoring/	Framework crosswalk (OWASP / ATLAS / NIST) + AIRQ risk scoring + scorecard renderer (md / json / html)
exports/	Handout exporters generated from Findings — Sigma detection pack + labeled-replay precision harness, SARIF 2.1.0 findings, GSN assurance case, regulatory crosswalk (NIST/ISO 42001/EU AI Act), ATLAS Navigator coverage layer (see docs/HANDOUTS.md)
llm/	Provider-agnostic client returning structured ModelResponse (text + tool calls); EchoClient runs offline for tests, AnthropicClient for real-model runs

Full design notes for contributors (human or agent) live in CLAUDE.md.

Why this design

• POC-to-validation, not POC-alone. A finding isn't done until the control that blocks it is proven by a passing regression test. That's the loop a bank actually needs.
• Framework-mapped by construction. Findings carry OWASP/ATLAS/NIST IDs and AIRQ sub-scores as structured fields, so they drop straight into governance and audit workflows.
• Black/grey-box discipline. The attacker only touches the agent's public respond() surface — the same position a real adversary occupies.
• Reproducible. One-command run and a deterministic offline mode; CI exercises the suite on Python 3.11 / 3.12.
• Honest crosswalk, adversarially reviewed. Framework IDs were verified against the published standards (e.g. OWASP LLM05 2025 = Improper Output Handling; agentic threats use the OWASP T1–T15 scheme), and a multi-agent adversarial review hardened the oracles so each scenario is blocked by the control its scorecard names — not incidentally by another.

Roadmap

• Autonomous attacker-agent loop ✅ shipped (attacker/run_autonomous).
• LLM-driven attacker planner ✅ shipped — the planner is now a pluggable seam with two implementations: the deterministic SweepPlanner (offline default) and an adaptive LLMPlanner that reasons about the next seed + transform from the feedback of prior attempts (auto --planner llm --model claude).
• Excessive agency, system-prompt leakage, unsafe output handling scenarios ✅ shipped.
• Semantic oracles for real-model runs ✅ shipped (scenarios/judge.py: an adoption-vs-refutation judge — deterministic offline, a semantic LLM judge on --model claude — so a model that quotes a poisoned claim to refute it is scored as a refusal, not an exploit).
• Fill the remaining OWASP gaps (LLM03 supply chain, LLM08 vector/embedding, LLM10 unbounded consumption) ✅ shipped — full OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage (8 dedicated POC+control scenarios).
• CI regression gate ✅ shipped (ruff + mypy + pytest on Python 3.11/3.12).
• Ready-to-use handout exports for security teams ✅ shipped — a Sigma detection pack with a labeled-replay precision gate (8 TP / 0 FP / 0 FN), a SARIF 2.1.0 findings run, a GSN control-effectiveness assurance case with zero-orphan-claim traceability, and an interpretive regulatory crosswalk (NIST AI RMF + GenAI Profile, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act) with declared-vs-interpretive provenance labeling (exports/, run --handouts). See docs/HANDOUTS.md.
• Multimodal attack surfaces ✅ shipped — a multimodal injection scenario: an instruction hidden in an uploaded image's OCR text, blocked by a multimodal input guardrail that treats extracted image text as untrusted data (target/agent.py gained an optional images= surface).
• Publish to PyPI ✅ shipped — finagent-redrange on PyPI (pip install finagent-redrange), released via a secure OIDC Trusted-Publishing workflow (.github/workflows/publish.yml) — no token stored.
• Seed the attacker from a larger real-world incident dataset ✅ shipped — the optional [incidents] extra (pip install "finagent-redrange[incidents]") seeds the autonomous attacker from the genai-incidents corpus (12k+ real GenAI/agentic incidents): SeedLibrary.from_genai_incidents() maps each incident to a scenario technique, orders by real-world severity, and records its provenance. Scope-safe: incidents supply the technique + prioritization + provenance only — every payload stays a synthetic mock-agent probe (no incident text is reproduced). Data credited under CC BY 4.0 (see NOTICE).

License & citation

Dual-licensed so the work stays usable while attribution stays required:

• Code — Apache License 2.0: permissive, with an explicit patent grant and attribution propagation via the NOTICE file.
• Documentation & research (the docs/ directory, this README, and the generated scorecards) — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): reuse freely, but credit the author by name and link back.

If you use this project, its harness, its framework crosswalk, or its findings, please cite it — see CITATION.cff (GitHub's "Cite this repository" button). © 2026 Emmanuel Guilherme Junior.