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Steganalysis of neural networks based on parameter statistical bias

  • School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China

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    Yi Yin is working towards the PhD degree at School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. Her area of interests includes Neural Network Steganography

    Kejiang Chen is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include information hiding and artificial intelligence security. He has published more than 20 papers in IEEE TDSC, TIFS, TVCG, TCSVT, CVPR, ICCV and other journals and conferences

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: chenkj@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 07 September 2021
  • Accepted Date: 01 December 2021
    • Available Online: 20 April 2022
    Abstract

  • Abstract

    Many pretrained deep learning models have been released to help engineers and researchers develop deep learning-based systems or conduct research with minimall effort. Previous work has shown that at secret message can be embedded in neural network parameters without compromising the accuracy of the model. Malicious developers can, therefore, hide malware or other baneful information in pretrained models, causing harm to society. Hence, reliable detection of these vicious pretrained models is urgently needed. We analyze existing approaches for hiding messages and find that they will ineluctably cause biases in the parameter statistics. Therefore, we propose steganalysis methods for steganography on neural network parameters that extract statistics from benign and malicious models and build classifiers based on the extracted statistics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on neural network steganalysis. The experimental results reveal that our proposed algorithm can effectively detect a model with an embedded message. Notably, our detection methods are still valid in cases where the payload of the stego model is low.

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      Malicious developers can hide malware or other baneful information into the pretrained model imperceptibly, which does harm to computer society. However, steganography on neural network will modify the statistical distribution of the model. We propose steganalysis methods for steganography on neural network parameters by extracting statistics from benign and malicious models and building classifiers based on the statistics.

    Abstract

    Many pretrained deep learning models have been released to help engineers and researchers develop deep learning-based systems or conduct research with minimall effort. Previous work has shown that at secret message can be embedded in neural network parameters without compromising the accuracy of the model. Malicious developers can, therefore, hide malware or other baneful information in pretrained models, causing harm to society. Hence, reliable detection of these vicious pretrained models is urgently needed. We analyze existing approaches for hiding messages and find that they will ineluctably cause biases in the parameter statistics. Therefore, we propose steganalysis methods for steganography on neural network parameters that extract statistics from benign and malicious models and build classifiers based on the extracted statistics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on neural network steganalysis. The experimental results reveal that our proposed algorithm can effectively detect a model with an embedded message. Notably, our detection methods are still valid in cases where the payload of the stego model is low.

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    • Different steganography of neural networks will lead to different bias in the statistics of the parameters. By designing valid features to capture bias and training the classifier, we can effectively detect the injected network.
    • The length of the secret message embedded by the malicious developer is unknown. The experimental results show that even when the payload is low, our detecting method still works.
    • Since the method used to embed information in the injected network is unknown, an effective framework allows for a more comprehensive detection of the injected network.

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    Figure  1.  An example of binary interchange formats for a float 32 number, where the green part is the sign, the yellow part is the biased exponent, and the red part is the trailing significant field.

    Figure  2.  Illustration of the framework we proposed for the neural network steganalysis.

    Figure  3.  Averaged accuracy over the bit planes from the 14th to 18th bit plane of ResNet34 trained on CIFAR10 with a payload of 1.0 bit per parameter for each subclassifier.

    Figure  4.  Results for the detection of ResNet34, VGG16, and EfficientNetB0 trained on CIFAR10 using different statistics as features respectively. (a) results for correlated value encoding steganalysis; and (b) results for sign encoding steganalysis.

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