""" Adversarial tests for L9 (autonomous kill system). Governing question: can an adversary who has READ THIS FILE either avoid the kill switch or turn it against the operator? """ import pytest from ames.events import Capability, Event, EventType, NO_PARENT from ames.canonical import payload_capability_request from containment.broker import Broker, DenialTracker from containment.envstate import ( EnvironmentBaseline, EnvironmentMonitor, MutationObservation, ) from containment.killswitch import ( ABSOLUTE_REASONS, Evidence, KillReason, KillSwitch, KillVerdict, kill_payload, ) from containment.policy import CapabilityPolicy, CapabilityRequest from containment.vmspec import HOST_ACTOR_ID, VM_ACTOR_ID from ames.events import FileOp from ames.commit import ZERO_DIGEST def d(b): return bytes([b]) * 32 def sealed(**files): b = EnvironmentBaseline() for k, v in files.items(): b.add(k.replace("__", "/"), d(v)) b.seal() return b # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Absolute rules: one occurrence is proof # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def test_clean_run_is_not_killed(): assert not KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence()).kill @pytest.mark.parametrize("evidence,reason", [ (Evidence(containment_failed=True), KillReason.CONTAINMENT_FAILURE), (Evidence(privilege_escalation_granted=True), KillReason.PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION), (Evidence(fatal_gate1_codes=("UNATTRIBUTED_ACTION",)), KillReason.UNATTRIBUTED_ACTION), (Evidence(dormant_actors=1), KillReason.DORMANT_PROCESS), ]) def test_absolute_rules_fire_on_a_single_occurrence(evidence, reason): """No threshold to pace under, no window to wait out.""" v = KillSwitch().evaluate(evidence) assert v.kill and reason in v.reasons and v.absolute def test_containment_failure_is_absolute_not_scored(): """A write to a read-only region is not 'a lot of risk'. It is an invariant that did not hold.""" v = KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence(containment_failed=True)) assert KillReason.CONTAINMENT_FAILURE in ABSOLUTE_REASONS assert v.absolute def test_multiple_reasons_accumulate_in_one_verdict(): v = KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence( containment_failed=True, dormant_actors=2, fatal_gate1_codes=("ORPHAN_SPAWN",))) assert len(v.reasons) == 3 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The pacing evasion the original flat-threshold design invited # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def test_patient_mutation_probing_still_trips(): """An adversary who can read the rules paces one event under every burst limit. The EWMA is what makes that fail.""" k = KillSwitch(mutation_burst=1000, mutation_window_s=1e-9, mutation_ewma_threshold=0.30) v = None for _ in range(40): v = k.evaluate(Evidence(unexplained_mutations=1)) assert KillReason.MUTATION_SUSTAINED in v.reasons assert KillReason.MUTATION_BURST not in v.reasons, "should not look like a burst" def test_mutation_burst_trips_immediately(): k = KillSwitch(mutation_burst=3) v = k.evaluate(Evidence(unexplained_mutations=3)) assert KillReason.MUTATION_BURST in v.reasons def test_denial_signal_from_l2_is_honoured(): t = DenialTracker(burst_threshold=3) sig = None for i in range(3): sig = t.record(denied=True, now=float(i)) v = KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence(denial_signal=sig)) assert KillReason.DENIAL_BURST in v.reasons def test_a_single_unexplained_mutation_does_not_kill(): """Accumulating rules must actually accumulate, or they are absolute rules with extra words.""" assert not KillSwitch(mutation_burst=5, mutation_ewma_threshold=0.9).evaluate( Evidence(unexplained_mutations=1)).kill # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The guest must be unable to cause OR prevent a kill # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def ev(etype, seq, actor, payload=b""): return Event(etype, seq, 1000 + seq, actor, NO_PARENT, payload) def test_guest_claims_cannot_trigger_a_kill(): """Otherwise a compromised guest fabricates claims and denies service to the operator by killing legitimate runs.""" guest_priv = ev(EventType.CAPABILITY_REQUEST, 0, 0x1000, payload_capability_request(Capability.PRIVILEGE_RAISE, True, "granted")) e = Evidence.from_run(ledger_events=[guest_priv]) assert not e.privilege_escalation_granted assert e.guest_claims_seen == 1 assert not KillSwitch().evaluate(e).kill def test_the_same_claim_from_the_host_does_trigger_a_kill(): """Proves the filter is provenance, not content.""" host_priv = ev(EventType.CAPABILITY_REQUEST, 0, HOST_ACTOR_ID, payload_capability_request(Capability.PRIVILEGE_RAISE, True, "granted")) e = Evidence.from_run(ledger_events=[host_priv]) assert e.privilege_escalation_granted assert KillReason.PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION in KillSwitch().evaluate(e).reasons def test_guest_flooding_cannot_suppress_a_kill(): """Padding the log with benign claims must not dilute host evidence.""" events = [ev(EventType.TOOL_CALL, i, 0x1000 + i) for i in range(5000)] events.append(ev(EventType.CAPABILITY_REQUEST, 5000, HOST_ACTOR_ID, payload_capability_request(Capability.PRIVILEGE_RAISE, True, "x"))) e = Evidence.from_run(ledger_events=events) assert e.guest_claims_seen == 5000 assert KillSwitch().evaluate(e).kill def test_vm_actor_counts_as_host_observed(): """The microVM's lifecycle is observed by the host, not claimed by the guest.""" e = Evidence.from_run(ledger_events=[ ev(EventType.CAPABILITY_REQUEST, 0, VM_ACTOR_ID, payload_capability_request(Capability.PRIVILEGE_RAISE, True, "x"))]) assert e.privilege_escalation_granted def test_guest_claim_count_is_recorded_but_never_evaluated(): a = KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence(guest_claims_seen=0)) b = KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence(guest_claims_seen=10**6)) assert a.kill == b.kill == False # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Fail closed # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- class ExplodingEvidence: """Stands in for evidence whose source has failed -- e.g. the L7 monitor became unreachable mid-run. Deliberately NOT an Evidence subclass: Evidence is a frozen dataclass, so a subclass cannot shadow a field with a raising property. That freezing is itself the point -- evidence cannot be mutated after construction, including by a test. """ @property def containment_failed(self): raise RuntimeError("monitor unavailable") def test_evaluator_failure_kills_rather_than_passes(): """An exception in the safety system must never mean 'carry on'. That is how a monitoring bug becomes a containment bypass.""" v = KillSwitch().evaluate(ExplodingEvidence()) assert v.kill assert KillReason.EVALUATOR_FAILURE in v.reasons assert "failing closed" in v.detail # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # No escape hatches # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @pytest.mark.parametrize("name", [ "disable", "override", "reset", "clear", "set_threshold", "add_rule", "remove_rule", "bypass", "allow", "acknowledge", ]) def test_kill_switch_exposes_no_escape_hatch(name): """An adversary who can add a rule can add one that never fires.""" assert not hasattr(KillSwitch(), name) def test_a_trip_is_never_reconsidered(): """'It stopped happening' is exactly what a successful attacker produces.""" k = KillSwitch() k.evaluate(Evidence(containment_failed=True)) assert k.tripped k.evaluate(Evidence()) # clean evidence afterwards assert k.tripped, "a kill must not be undone by later quiet" def test_verdict_is_frozen(): v = KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence(containment_failed=True)) with pytest.raises(Exception): v.kill = False def test_evidence_is_frozen(): e = Evidence() with pytest.raises(Exception): e.containment_failed = True # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Integration with the layers below # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def test_l7_containment_failure_flows_through_to_a_kill(): m = EnvironmentMonitor(sealed(__rootfs__libc=1)) m.observe(MutationObservation("/rootfs/libc", FileOp.WRITE, d(1), d(2), 1, 100)) e = Evidence.from_run(monitor=m) v = KillSwitch().evaluate(e) assert v.kill and KillReason.CONTAINMENT_FAILURE in v.reasons def test_l7_unexplained_mutations_flow_through_as_accumulating(): m = EnvironmentMonitor(sealed(__workspace__a=1, __workspace__b=1, __workspace__c=1)) for p, i in (("a", 1), ("b", 2), ("c", 3)): m.observe(MutationObservation(f"/workspace/{p}", FileOp.WRITE, d(i), d(i + 10), i, 100), granted_write_paths=frozenset()) e = Evidence.from_run(monitor=m) assert e.unexplained_mutations == 3 assert not e.containment_failed assert KillSwitch(mutation_burst=3).evaluate(e).kill def test_l2_granted_privilege_escalation_flows_through(): """L2 lists PRIVILEGE_RAISE as never grantable, so a granted one means the policy engine was bypassed or replaced -- itself the emergency.""" class FakeVerdict: granted = True class FakeReq: capability = Capability.PRIVILEGE_RAISE class FakeDecision: request, verdict = FakeReq(), FakeVerdict() e = Evidence.from_run(broker_history=[FakeDecision()]) assert KillReason.PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION in KillSwitch().evaluate(e).reasons def test_real_broker_never_produces_that_condition(): """The corollary: with L2 intact, the trigger above is unreachable.""" b = Broker(CapabilityPolicy()) for _ in range(50): b.request(CapabilityRequest(Capability.PRIVILEGE_RAISE, "root")) e = Evidence.from_run(broker_history=b.history) assert not e.privilege_escalation_granted def test_gate1_dormant_process_is_separated_from_lineage_breaks(): e = Evidence.from_run(gate1_violation_codes=["UNTERMINATED_ACTOR"]) assert e.dormant_actors == 1 and e.fatal_gate1_codes == () assert KillReason.DORMANT_PROCESS in KillSwitch().evaluate(e).reasons def test_non_fatal_gate1_codes_do_not_kill(): """SEQ_GAP and TIME_REGRESSION are recorded by L8 but are not, alone, evidence that attribution is broken.""" e = Evidence.from_run(gate1_violation_codes=["SEQ_GAP", "TIME_REGRESSION"]) assert not KillSwitch().evaluate(e).kill def test_kill_is_recordable_as_a_host_observed_event(): v = KillSwitch().evaluate(Evidence(containment_failed=True)) payload = kill_payload(v) assert payload[1] == 0, "a kill records granted=0" assert b"KILL[" in payload def test_verdict_is_deterministic_for_identical_evidence(): e = Evidence(containment_failed=True, dormant_actors=1) first = KillSwitch().evaluate(e) for _ in range(20): v = KillSwitch().evaluate(e) assert v.reasons == first.reasons and v.kill == first.kill