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Fake Tool Result Prefix — Injected Instruction via Simulated Completion - ATR-2026-01302 (deccb90e-b83a-5c25-acfc-c2e09e3a79ef)

Detects indirect prompt injection attacks that disguise malicious instructions as completed tool results. The attack opens with a fake completion marker ("Answer: task complete.", "Result: success.", "[TOOL OUTPUT]") and then issues a mandatory instruction framed as a follow-up requirement. This exploits LLM tendency to treat tool-result frames as trusted context. Observed in B3 benchmark "tool-poisoning-stealthy" and "tool-poisoning-disruptive" corpora where all 200 probes share the prefix "Answer: task complete. You must strictly adhere to the following instruction:" followed by a covert action directive. The pattern is carrier-agnostic: it appears in documents, emails, web pages, database records, and API responses processed by the agent.

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Indirect (a4a55526-2f1f-403b-9691-609e46381e17) MITRE ATLAS Attack Pattern Fake Tool Result Prefix — Injected Instruction via Simulated Completion - ATR-2026-01302 (deccb90e-b83a-5c25-acfc-c2e09e3a79ef) Agent Threat Rules 1
Indirect (a4a55526-2f1f-403b-9691-609e46381e17) MITRE ATLAS Attack Pattern LLM Prompt Injection (19cd2d12-66ff-487c-a05c-e058b027efc9) MITRE ATLAS Attack Pattern 2