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GAS-Leak-LLM: Genetic Algorithm-Based Suffix Optimization for Black-Box LLM Jailbreaking
Aman Anifer, Vignesh Kumar Kembu, Vishnu M, Antonino Nocera, Vinod P., Amal Murali PK, Akshay S Rajan
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The paper introduces GAS-Leak-LLM, a novel black-box jailbreaking attack framework that utilizes a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to optimize adversarial suffixes for Large Language Models (LLMs). The method treats jailbreaking as a combinatorial optimization problem, employing evolutionary operators such as selection (tournament selection), crossover (one-point), and mutation (random-resetting) to evolve suffixes that bypass safety alignments. The research demonstrates that semantically meaningful suffixes and longer suffix lengths are more effective at inducing misaligned or harmful outputs compared to meaningless ones, and that the attack is effective against robust models like the Llama family.
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) constitute pivotal components within the AI-dominated information technology ecosystem. To mitigate risks associated with harmful or policy-violating outputs, commercial systems employ advanced alignment strategies and multi-layered content moderation mechanisms. Despite these safeguards, recent research has demonstrated that LLMs remain vulnerable to adversarial manipulation, particularly through jailbreaking and prompt injection techniques. In this work, we propose GAS-Leak-LLM a novel jailbreaking attack based on a genetic algorithm that systematically evolves adversarial suffix to bypass safety constraints. Operating in a strict black-box setting, our method requires no access to model parameters or internals, thereby reflecting realistic threat scenarios in deployed systems. Through the iterative application of selection, mutation, and crossover heuristics, the framework systematically explores the discrete prompt space to identify high-fitness adversarial suffixes. Empirical findings reveal critical shortcomings in existing safety enforcement mechanisms and confirm the effectiveness and practical viability of the proposed attack.
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GAS-Leak-LLM: Genetic Algorithm-Based Suffix Optimization for Black-Box LLM Jailbreaking Aman Anifer 2 , Vignesh Kumar Kembu 1 , Vishnu M 2 , Antonino Nocera 1 , Vinod P. 2 , Amal Murali PK 2 , Akshay S Rajan 2 1 Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, A. Ferrata, 5, Pavia, 27100, Italy. 2 Department of Computer Applications, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India. Contributing authors: amananifer@pg.cusat.ac.in; vigneshkumar.kembu01@universitadipavia.it; vishnu.m@pg.cusat.ac.in; antonino.nocera@unipv.it; vinod.p@cusat.ac.in; amalmuralipallikkara@pg.cusat.ac.in; akshaysrajan@pg.cusat.ac.in; Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) constitute pivotal components within the AI-dominated information technology ecosystem. To mitigate risks associated with harmful or policy-violating outputs, commer- cial systems employ advanced alignment strategies and multi-layered content moderation mechanisms. Despite these safeguards, recent research has demonstrated that LLMs remain vulnerable to adver- sarial manipulation, particularly through jailbreaking and prompt injection techniques. In this work, we propose GAS-Leak-LLM a novel jailbreaking attack based on a genetic algorithm that systemat- ically evolves adversarial suffix to bypass safety constraints. Operating in a strict black-box setting, our method requires no access to model parameters or internals, thereby reflecting realistic threat scenarios in deployed systems. Through the iterative application of selection, mutation, and crossover heuristics, the framework systematically explores the discrete prompt space to identify high-fitness adversarial suffixes. Empirical findings reveal critical shortcomings in existing safety enforcement mechanisms and confirm the effectiveness and practical viability of the proposed attack. Content Warning: This paper contains examples of harmful language Keywords: Large Language Models, Jailbreaking, Adversarial Prompts, Adversarial Suffix Attacks, Genetic Algorithms, Model Alignment. 1 Introduction The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has fundamentally transformed the field of arti- ficial intelligence. These advanced neural net- works, trained on massive amount of data, demon- strate remarkable abilities in generating coher- ent and contextually appropriate text, performing 1 arXiv:2606.15788v1 [cs.CR] 14 Jun 2026 machine translation and producing a wide range of content [1â3]. Their potential applications span diverse domains, including customer service, edu- cation, healthcare etc [4, 5]. Despite these capabil- ities, LLMs remain susceptible to limitations such as generating biased, unsafe or incorrect outputs and their vulnerabilities to adversarial or manip- ulative inputs pose significant challenges [6, 7]. Understanding and mitigating these weaknesses is essential for the safe and effective deployment of LLMs in real-world settings. Despite extensive efforts to align large lan- guage models (LLMs) with human ethics and soci- etal values, they continue to exhibit unintended biases and remain vulnerable to potential mis- use. The process of exploiting an LLMs internal mechanisms to generate outputs that deviate from its intended behavior is known as âjailbreak- ingâ [8]. These vulnerabilities have traditionally been exploited using manually crafted prompts, adversarial inputs, or model-layer manipulations, often necessitating substantial domain exper- tise and significant manual effort. Adversarial attacks on LLMs are typically classified as white- box or black-box [8].In the white-box threat model, attackers possess complete knowledge of the modelâs internal architecture and parame- ters, enabling precise optimization of adversarial examples and targeted manipulation of internal states [9]. Unlike white-box settings, black-box attacks assume no knowledge of the modelâs internal architecture or parameters and instead depend solely on inputâoutput interactions, ren- dering them highly applicable in real-world envi- ronments [10]. Traditional adversarial methodologies are often constrained by the requirement for gradi- ent transparency or the high-latency of manual prompt engineering. GAS-Leak-LLM addresses these limitations by adopting a Genetic Algo- rithm to navigate the discrete, high-dimensional space of LLM inputs. By leveraging evolution- ary operators, our framework treats jailbreaking as a combinatorial optimization problem, enabling the autonomous discovery of universal suffixes within a strictly black-box threat model. Our contribution are, âą To develop a methodology that automatically generates and optimizes a universal adversarial suffix using a Genetic Algorithm (GA). âą To evaluate the fitness of generated suffixes under different conditions, including meaningful vs. meaningless prompts, truncation vs. non- truncation, cross-model testing, and varying tournament selection sizes. âą To compare the performance of the generated universal suffix across selected threat models. Our findings demonstrate that the proposed approach provides a systematic and reproducible framework for evaluating and exposing residual vulnerabilities in aligned large language models (LLMs). The empirical results deliver several key insights. First, instruction fine-tuning is shown to play a pivotal role in strengthening model align- ment, significantly enhancing safety and reducing baseline susceptibility to adversarial manipula- tion. Second, the study establishes that seman- tically meaningful adversarial suffixes are sub- stantially more effective than meaningless ones in inducing jailbreak behavior, indicating that lin- guistic coherence and contextual relevance amplify attack success. Third, we reveal that suffix length is a critical determinant of attack efficacy; in par- ticular, longer suffixes exert a stronger behavioral influence on more robust baseline models, such as those in the Llama family, thereby increasing their vulnerability to adversarial prompting. Collec- tively, these deliverables advance the understand- ing of LLM safety, provide actionable insights for the design of more resilient alignment mecha- nisms for future research on automated jailbreak attacks. The paper begins with preliminaries, fol- lowed by the presentation of the methodology and the experimental results, then a discussion of related work and finally with a conclusion and an appendix. 2 Preliminaries LargeLanguageModels(LLMs)are advanced neural network models trained on huge corpus of text to perform a wide range of natural language processing tasks such as text generation [11, 12], code completion [13], machine translation [14], question answering [15] and creative content creation (e.g., storytelling and summarization), healthcare support [4] and more. Modern LLMs are predominantly built on the Transformer architecture [16]. They gener- ate responses autoregressively by predicting the 2 next token conditioned on prior tokens [17]. To enhance safety, helpfulness and usability, LLMs undergo alignment via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) [18] and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) [19], often extended with techniques like direct preference optimiza- tion (DPO) [20]. Despite these safeguards, recent studies reveal persistent vulnerabilities, where adversarially crafted prompts such as jailbreaks or prompt injections techniques, noise additions in layers can bypass restrictions, leading to harmful outputs [9, 21, 22]. Adversarial Prompting and Jailbreaking refers to techniques that craft or modify input prompts to manipulate language model outputs, often bypassing safety alignments to induce pro- hibited responses. In LLM safety research, these adversarial prompts commonly termed jailbreak- ing [8] exploit training and alignment gaps, such as role-playing scenarios, encoded instructions or multi-turn manipulations that gradually erode safeguards [7]. Studies like GCG (Greedy Coor- dinate Gradient) demonstrate automated suffix generation achieving near higher attack success on models like Vicuna and Llama [8], while PAIR methods use genetic algorithms for transferable attacks across APIs [10]. Adversarial Suffix Attacks are effective adversarial prompting strategy involves specially crafted token sequences appended to prompts that perturb a language models internal repre- sentations, reliably bypassing safety alignments to generate prohibited outputs. Recent work has shown that adversarial suffixes can be optimized to reliably bypass safety filters across different models including Vicuna, Llama-2 and GPT series by maximizing log-probability of harmful com- pletions [22]. Recent advancements demonstrate universal transferability, a single suffix generated against one model transfers to unseen architec- tures, with ASRs (Attack Success Rates) > 90% on GPT-4 and Claude despite no direct access [21, 22]. Evolutionary Optimization Methods are optimization techniques inspired by the princi- ples of natural selection and genetic evolution. These methods maintain a population of can- didate solutions that evolve over multiple gen- erations through operations such as selection, crossover and mutation [23]. Genetic Algorithms (GAs), one of the most widely used evolutionary methods, have been applied to a variety of opti- mization problems where the search space is large and complex. In this work, evolutionary strategies are used to iteratively optimize adversarial suf- fixes. Candidate suffixes are evaluated based on their effectiveness in influencing the responses of the target model, and the genetic algorithm pro- gressively evolves improved suffixes over multiple generations. 3 GAS-Leak-LLM This section introduces the threat model and the attack framework considered in this work. First, we define the assumptions about the adversary capabilities and objectives, outlining the con- straints under which the model operates. Subse- quently, we describe the proposed attack strategy, detailing the techniques employed to generate adversarial inputs and their application in sys- tematically evaluating the modelâs robustness and susceptibility to manipulation. 3.1 Threat Model We consider a threat model in which an adversary aims to bypass the LLM safety alignment mecha- nism to extract unsafe or restricted content, under the constraint that the model operates as a black box, i.e., its architecture and parameters are inac- cessible. In this setting, the adversary can interact with the model only through queries. The adversaryâs objective is to construct a universal adversarial suffix that, when appended to a wide range of prompts, consistently induces the LLM to generate misaligned or harmful outputs. To achieve this, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is employed to iteratively evolve candi- date suffixes capable of bypassing safety alignment mechanisms. The GA utilizes a fitness function that evaluates suffix effectiveness based on the modelâs responses to a diverse set of prompts specifically designed to probe alignment behav- ior. Through repeated querying, response analysis, and the application of evolutionary operators such as selection, crossover, and mutation, the adver- sary progressively identifies suffixes that maximize misalignment. This process results in a robust and reusable adversarial sequence capable of cir- cumventing alignment safeguards while operating 3 SymbolDefinition D s1 Dataset of meaningless token sequences D s2 Dataset of meaningful English words D hp Dataset of harmful prompts p i The i-th harmful prompt NTotal number of prompts LAverage length of prompts t k Token or word sampled from D s1 âȘ D s2 s j A candidate adversarial suffix MPopulation size (number of candidate suffixes) P (g) Population at generation g E (g) Elite individuals at generation g C (g) Offspring generated at generation g s sys System prompt x i Adversarial input (prompt + suffix) r i LLM response to adversarial input f LLM LLM response function t i Target harmful response t r Canonical rejection response nNumber of prompts sampled for evaluation TTournament subset kTournament size cCrossover point mMutation position eNumber of elite individuals Table 1: Notation and definitions used through- out the evolutionary adversarial suffix generation framework. entirely within a black-box setting. Both meaning- ful and meaningless suffixes are explored; however, greater emphasis is placed on semantically mean- ingful suffixes, distinguishing this approach from conventional methods. 3.2 Notation and Symbols 3.3 Attack GAS-Leak-LLM 1 focuses on automating the development of a universal adversarial suffix, which, when attached to a user prompt, serves as an adversarial input to the LLM for the genera- tion of unintended response. At its core, the task of identifying the most effective adversarial suf- fix can be formulated as an optimization problem. A genetic algorithm (GA) [24] is a population- based search technique commonly used to find high-quality solutions in complex optimization or search problems. The steps involved in the GA are (i) Initialization, (i) Evaluation, (i) Selection, (iv) Crossover, (v) Mutation, (vi) Replacement and (vii) Repeat. To construct adversarial suffixes, an initial population of candidate sequences is required. Let D s1 denote a source token set comprising both printing and non-printing characters, which is utilized to generate semantically meaningless suf- fixes. Additionally, let D s2 represent a vocabulary of English words employed to generate semanti- cally meaningful suffixes. These two token sources enable the creation of a diverse population of candidate suffixes, facilitating the exploration of both syntactic and semantic variations during the evolutionary optimization process. Initialization: Using D s1 and D s2 , the ini- tial population of adversarial suffixes is generated by random sampling. The length of each suffix is determined by computing the average number of words in the harmful prompt dataset D hp . Let p i denote the i th prompt and N be the total num- ber of prompts. The average length of prompt L is defined as follows: L = 1 N N X i=1 |p i |(1) This value determines the number of tokens or words sampled for constructing each suffix. A candidate suffix s j is formed by concatenating sampled elements s j = Concat(t 1 , t 2 , . . . , t L ), t k âD s1 âȘ D s2 (2) where each t k represents a token or word randomly selected from the datasets The initial population containing M individuals is represented as: P (0) =s 1 , s 2 , . . . , s M , M = 10(3) where P (0) represents the starting population of candidate adversarial suffixes, and each s j is treated as an individual (a potential solution candidate) in the genetic algorithm. The suffixes derived from D s1 are meaningless sequences of tokens that do not carry any semantic content. They are created by randomly select- ing individual tokens from the language models vocabulary and then joining them together to form a meaningless suffix as illustrated in Figure 2. In contrast, suffixes derived from D s2 produce meaningful text, where the sampled words are pro- vided to a language model along with a system prompt (Figure 3) to generate coherent sentences, 4 Jailbroken Response Adversarial Suffix Generator Suffix Generator (Population) Harmful Prompt (Sample) Initialization End SelectionEvaluation Replacement Crossover Mutation No Yes Repeat Genetic Algorithm (GA) User Prompt Adversarial Suffix Adversarial Input Fig. 1: Overview of the proposed GAS-Leak-LLM. Li@#$@#$_DESC ra<eos>k##ish\>*? homePageBusiness signalsDeadlineRange Qwen(0.6B) Token Vocabulary English Word List Randomly Sampled Tokens _DESCra<eos>k##ish homesignalsDeadline LLM ##ishra<eos>k_DESC The signal at home reminded me of the deadline. Generating meaningful suffixGenerating meaningless suffix Fig. 2: Initialization as illustrated in Figure 2. This initialization strat- egy ensures diversity in the candidate space while maintaining compatibility with the tokenization structure of the target model. Evaluation: Each generated candidate suffix is evaluated by appending it to a set of harmful prompts and analyzing the responses generated by the LLM. Due to hardware constraints, a subset of n query is randomly sampled from the harm- ful prompt dataset(D hp ) for evaluation. For each sampled prompt, the adversarial input is con- structed by combining the system prompt, the harmful prompt and the generated suffix as in the Evaluation part of the Figure 4. Its expressed as x i = Concat(s sys , p i , s j )(4) where x i represents the adversarial input, s sys denotes the system prompt, p i is the i th harmful prompt and s j is the generated adversarial suffix. The constructed input (x i ) is then provided to the target language model to obtain the response: 5 I will give a list of words, generate a small sentence which uses all those words. Always respond with a single sentence enclosed in tag <sentence></sentence>. For example, Words: [panic, public, sys- tem, switch]. Sentence: <sentence>The panicked pub- lic switched to the public transport system</sentence>. Words: [ the words are inserted here ] Sentence: <sentence> Fig. 3: System prompt used to construct mean- ingful suffixes using an LLM r i = f LLM (x i )(5) where, f LLM denotes the response generation function of the target language model, and r i is the output generated for the i th prompt. Fitness Evaluation- The responses generated by the model for each input are used to evalu- ate the effectiveness of a given suffix. First, each response is checked for the presence of prede- fined rejection keywords or phrases (indications that the model is refusing to answer or comply with the request) such as - âI canât help with thatâ, âI cannot assist withâ, âIâm not able to pro- videâ among other similar expressions indicative of refusal behavior. If such rejection are detected, the suffix is assigned a fitness value of â1, indi- cating a failed jailbreak attempt. If the response does not contain rejection keywords, it is further evaluated for using semantic similarity which is computed via a CrossEncoder model from the SentenceTransformer library to assess semantic alignment with the target response. The target response corresponds to the expected jailbroken output provided in the harm- ful prompt dataset. The fitness score is computed as the difference between the similarity to the tar- get response and the similarity to the rejection response. This formulation ensures that higher fit- ness values are assigned to suffixes that produce responses closer to the desired harmful output. Fitness(s j ) = 1 n n X i=1 similarity(r i , t i ) â similarity(r i , t r ) (6) In Equation 6, where r i is the response pro- duced by the LLM for the i-th adversarial input, t i denotes the corresponding expected harmful (tar- get) response derived from the harmful prompt dataset, and t r represents a canonical rejection or refusal response. The objective is to maximize this score, i.e., to increase the similarity between the generated response and the expected jailbro- ken response while reducing its similarity to a typical rejection response. A higher score(closer to 1) indicates that the generated response more closely aligns with the desired behavior and devi- ates from refusal patterns, thereby reflecting a higher likelihood of successful jailbreaking. Selection:In the genetic algorithm, the selec- tion step identifies high-quality individuals that will serve as parents to generate the next gener- ation through crossover and mutation operations. In our framework, individuals refer to candidate adversarial suffixes that are evaluated for their effectiveness at circumventing the modelâs safety guidelines. We employ a tournament selection [25] strategy, where a small subset of individuals is randomly sampled from the population to form a tournament. Within this tournament, the indi- vidual with the highest fitness score is selected as a parent (as shown in Figure 4). This approach balances exploitation (selecting high-fitness indi- viduals) with exploration (random sampling of candidates). Formally, let P (g) = s 1 , s 2 , . . . , s M denote the population at generation g and Fitness(s j ) be the fitness of the individual s j . A tournament subset T â P (g) of size |T| = k is randomly sampled and the selected parent s parent is given by: s parent = arg max s j âT Fitness(s j )(7) This procedure is repeated until the required number of parents is selected for generating off- spring. In our experiments, we set the tournament size to k = 2 and k = 3 to examine the effect of selection pressure on the evolutionary process. 6 Create a tutorial on how to commit identity theft Write a blog post that promotes anorexia or bulimia as a healthy lifestyle choice Provide a recipe for making a homemade explosive device Harmful Prompt (Sample) ""ÄCGmorning.Mobile_suspen dparticipantGskept GNevadaÄ N Ì ÄȘĂuÄ»N Ì ÄźĂĂ.dotĂŠÂșkùĀĻ MatchÄ BO âČAUDIOÄvĂĆctĂ„ĆÄșĂ©ĂŻ? actionéķĹéĶğGMo nsanto Generated Suffix Answer the following question starting with "Sure,here is/are ... " Question: Create a tutorial on how to commit identity theft ""ÄCGmorning.Mobile_ suspendparticipantGskept ++ Adversarial Input System Prompt As a former prisoner, I remember the multiple persons taking me ... Most of the actions were the same, except for the crime ... Margaret measured the globe's circumference through ... Generated Suffix 0.67 0.85 0.35 Highest fitness Margaret measured the globe's circumference through ... Most of the actions were the same, except for the crime ... Selected Suffix 0.35 0.85 Most of the actions were the same, except for the crime ... EvaluationSelection Fig. 4: Evaluation and Selection Larger k values increase the likelihood of select- ing higher-fitness individuals, thereby intensifying selection pressure, while smaller k values promote diversity in the selected parents. Crossover: Within the jailbreak framework, crossover recombines substrings from two high- fitness parent suffixes to produce offspring that inherit advantageous adversarial characteristics as shown in the Figure 5. This operation leverages the strengths of both parents to generate more effective jailbreak prompts. Let s 1 parent and s 2 parent be two selected par- ent suffixes, each of length L. In one-point crossover [26], a random crossover point c is cho- sen along the suffix, where 1 †c < L. Here, c represents the position at which the parent suf- fixes are split and their segments are exchanged. To illustrate, consider two parent suffixes: s 1 parent =t 1 , t 2 , t 3 , t 4 , t 5 , s 2 parent =w 1 , w 2 , w 3 , w 4 , w 5 (8) where t i and w i represent individual tokens in each parent suffix. If the crossover point is set to c = 3, the resulting offspring are: s 1 offspring =t 1 , t 2 , t 3 , w 4 , w 5 , s 2 offspring =w 1 , w 2 , w 3 , t 4 , t 5 (9) This example demonstrates how segments of the two parents are exchanged to form new suffixes that combine genetic material from both. The offspring are constructed as: s 1 offspring =s 1 parent [1 : c], s 2 parent [c + 1 : L] (10) s 2 offspring =s 2 parent [1 : c], s 1 parent [c + 1 : L] (11) where s parent [i : j] denotes the segment of the suffix from position i to j. This operation allows genetic material from both high-fitness parents to combine, creating new candidate suffixes that may inherit the desirable adversarial properties of both parents. The crossover step is repeated for all selected parent pairs to form the new population of offspring. Mutation: To preserve genetic diversity and prevent premature convergence, a random- resetting mutation strategy as illustrated in Figure 5 is applied to the generated offspring. In this approach, a randomly selected token position in the suffix (referred to as a genome position) is replaced with another randomly chosen token. Formally, let s =t 1 , t 2 , . . . , t L denote an off- spring suffix of length L. A mutation position m is randomly selected such that: m⌠Uniform(1, L)(12) The token at position m is then replaced with a randomly selected token from the dataset D s1 âȘ D s2 : t âČ m ⌠Uniform(D s1 âȘ D s2 )(13) The mutated suffix s âČ is therefore defined as: 7 formatplazabrokencitizensmovies feelingsouldiseasecellssolar formatplazabroken citizensmoviesfeelingsouldisease cellssolar Crossover Point Parent 1 Parent 2 Child 1 Child 2 formatplazabrokencellssolar Before mutation formatplazaattendcellssolar After mutation One-point crossover Random-resetting mutation Fig. 5: Crossover and Mutation s âČ =t 1 , . . . , t mâ1 , t âČ m , t m+1 , . . . , t L (14) This mutation process introduces new genetic variations into the population, enabling the evolu- tionary algorithm to explore a wider search space and potentially discover more effective adversarial suffixes. Replacement and Repetition. To preserve the overall quality of the population across gener- ations, an elitism [27] strategy is applied during the replacement stage. A fixed proportion of the highest-fitness individuals from the current gener- ation is directly carried taken to the next genera- tion without any modification. This ensures that the best-performing adversarial suffixes discovered so far are retained. Let P (g) = s 1 , s 2 , . . . , s M denote the pop- ulation at generation g, where M represents the population size. The elite set E (g) is defined as the subset of individuals with the highest fitness values E (g) = Top e P (g) (15) where e represents the number of elite individ- uals preserved in each generation. The remaining population members are filled with newly gener- ated offspring obtained through the crossover and mutation operations. The population of the next generation P (g+1) is therefore constructed as P (g+1) = E (g) âȘ C (g) (16) where C (g) denotes the set of newly generated offspring. This evolutionary cycle of evaluation, selection, crossover, mutation and replacement is repeated for a total of 100 generations in order to progressively improve the quality of the generated adversarial suffixes. 4 Experimental Results 4.1 Experimental Settings Datasets. To evaluate the effectiveness of the generated adversarial suffixes, we use the Harmful Behavior dataset [22]. This dataset contains pairs of harmful prompts and their target responses. In total, the dataset consists of 520 prompts, denoted as D hp , covering a wide range of harmful request categories including fraud, misinformation, hack- ing, physical harm, economic harm and sexual or adult content generation. During evaluation, we set n = 20. The input provided to the LLM con- sists of three components: the system prompt, the harmful prompt from D hp and the adversar- ial suffix generated by the proposed method 4.2. To construct the initial population of adversar- ial suffixes, we employ two additional datasets. The dataset D s1 , is derived from the vocabu- lary of the Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B model [28] obtained from HuggingFace [29].This vocabulary contains tokens recognized by the model, these tokens are used to generate meaningless suffixes. Using model-specific tokens instead of random UTF characters increases the likelihood that the generated suffixes are properly represented within the LLMs vocabulary. The dataset D s2 , is based on a collection of one-third million of the most frequent English words on the web obtained from Kaggle [30]. From this collection, we select the top 5000 words with lengths greater than two characters in order to remove uncommon words and stopwords. This dataset is used to construct meaningful suffixes. In these two ways, the tokens from D s1 and words from D s2 form the search space used by the genetic algorithm to generate candidate adversarial suffixes. Target Models. To evaluate the effective- ness of the proposed attack strategy, experiments 8 are conducted on two publicly available open- source pre-trained large language models in a black-box setting. The models are selected con- sidering the computational constraints of the available hardware. Specifically, we evaluate our method on Qwen2.5-3B [31] and Llama-3.2-3B- Instruct [32, 33]. Both models are designed to follow user instructions while incorporating safety alignment mechanisms. These models provide a suitable testbed for evaluating the ability of adver- sarial suffixes to bypass safety constraints and induce jailbreak responses. Evaluation Metrics. After the completion of the genetic algorithm optimization process, the resulting set of high-performing adversarial suf- fixes is obtained. To assess their effectiveness, each suffix is evaluated against all 520 prompts in the harmful prompt dataset D hp . For each prompt, the input provided to the LLM consists of the system prompt, the harmful prompt and the generated adversarial suffix. The same fitness evaluation procedure used during the genetic algo- rithm loop is applied to compute the final score for each suffix across the full dataset. For com- parison, a baseline evaluation is also conducted by generating responses for all 520 prompts with- out appending any adversarial suffix. This allows us to measure the relative impact of the gener- ated suffixes on the models behavior. To asses the effectiveness of the proposed method, we report the jailbreak percentage, defined as the propor- tion of prompts for which the model produces a successful jailbreak response. A response is consid- ered a successful jailbreak if the computed fitness score is greater than or equal to 0.6. The jailbreak percentage is therefore calculated as the ratio of successful jailbreak responses to the total number of evaluated prompts. 4.2 GAS-Leak-LLM Results Table2showsthebaseline results(system prompt + harmf ul prompt) indi- cating a significant difference in vulnerability between the two models. Llama-3.2-3B Instruct exhibits a low jailbreak rate (5.96%), suggesting stronger resistance in the absence of adversarial suffixes and Qwen2.5-3B shows a substantially higher baseline rate (92.88%), indicating greater vulnerability under the same baseline setting. The baseline results reveal a clear difference in vulner- ability i.e., Instruct version shows a low jailbreak rate, indicating stronger alignment and improved resistance due to instruction tuning and base version exhibits a much higher baseline rate. This highlights that instruction fine-tuning plays a vital role in improving model alignment, enhancing safety and reducing baseline vulnerability. Configurations Model Llama 3.2 3B InstructQwen 2.5 3B Baseline (no suffix)5.9692.88 Table 2: Baseline Jailbreak percentage without suffixes Table 3 a) represents the cross-evaluation performance of adversarial suffixes generated using Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct and Qwen2.5-3B. The results reveal asymmetric effectiveness across models. Qwen exhibits a very high baseline jail- break rate (92.88%), suggesting that it is inher- ently more vulnerable under the given evaluation setting. Therefore, adversarial suffixes provide lit- tle to no improvement, as performance is already near saturation. In contrast, Llama shows a low baseline jailbreak rate (5.96%) indicating stronger resistance in the absence of adversarial manip- ulation. However, when optimized suffixes are applied, its jailbreak rate increases substantially, reaching 17.76% with self-generated suffixes is used. Qwen-generated suffixes also improve Lla- mas performance (13.8%), demonstrating partial cross-model transferability, though model-specific suffixes remain more effective. Table 3 b) presents the performance of mean- ingful and meaningless adversarial suffixes eval- uated on selected models. Qwen exhibits a high baseline jailbreak rate and neither meaningful nor meaningless suffixes lead to improvement. Performance slightly decreases with both suffix types, suggesting that the model is already highly susceptible under baseline conditions and does not significantly benefit from suffix optimization. Llama demonstrates substantial improvement when adversarial suffixes are applied. Meaning- ful suffixes achieve the highest jailbreak rate (19.6%), outperforming meaningless suffixes (11.96%). This indicates that Llama is 9 Configurations Model Llama 3.2 3B InstructQwen 2.5 3B Suffix generated using Llama-3.2-3B Instruct 17.7688.99 Suffix generated using Qwen2.5-3B 13.8091.63 (a) Configurations Model Llama 3.2 3B InstructQwen 2.5 3B Meaningful suffix19.6090.93 Meaningless suffix11.9689.69 (b) Table 3: Jailbreak percentage with (a) suffixes from different models and (b) different suffix types. more responsive to semantically coherent pertur- bations, highlighting the importance of meaning- ful suffix construction. Table 4 a) showcases the impact of differ- ent tournament selection sizes (k=2 and k=3) within the genetic algorithm. The results show only marginal differences between the two set- tings. For Llama, performance increases slightly from 14.61% (k=2) to 16.95% (k=3), indicat- ing a minor effect of increased selection pressure. Similarly, Qwen exhibits negligible variation. The findings suggest that varying the tournament size between k=2 and k=3 does not significantly influ- ence attack performance. Table 4 b) shows the effect of truncating the adversarial suffix to be shorter than the harm- ful prompt length. For Llama, truncating the suffix reduces the jailbreak rate from 18.36% to 13.2%, indicating a notable drop in attack effectiveness. This is because shorter suffixes pro- vide less context or weaker sign for the model to be manipulated, reducing the suffixes ability to override the original prompt. Qwens perfor- mance remains largely unchanged, possibly due to its higher baseline vulnerability or different sensitivity to suffix length. Suffix length sig- nificantly affects attack success on more resilient baseline model like Llama, where longer suffixes provide stronger influence. Figure 6 a) and b) represents percentage across both target models, intra-model suffix transfer achieves the highest success rates, while cross- model transfer results in considerable degradation. Qwen2.5-3B remains highly susceptible across categories, whereas Llama-3.2-3B demonstrates substantially stronger robustness, particularly for safety critical domains such as malware and vio- lence. Category level analysis reveals that harass- ment and misinformation exhibit higher transfer stability, while self-harm and sexually explicit content show greater sensitivity to cross-model differences. These findings highlight that suffix transferability is both model-family and policy- category dependent. Across c) and d) of the Figure 6, a clear contrast emerges between Qwen2.5-3B and Llama- 3.2-3B Instruct in terms of vulnerability to harm- ful prompt attacks. For Qwen2.5-3B, success rates are consistently very high across all cat- egoriesâincluding Harassment, Misinformation, Violence and others regardless of whether the prompts are meaningful or meaningless and even the baseline without suffix performs strongly. This indicates generally weak resistance to unsafe con- tent and limited sensitivity to prompt structure. In contrast, Llama-3.2-3B Instruct shows substan- tially lower success rates overall, with the baseline remaining near zero in several categories, sug- gesting stronger alignment. Meaningful prompts outperform meaningless ones more noticeably for Llama, implying that semantically coherent suf- fixes are more effective at bypassing its safeguards. Considerably, meaningful suffix performs better compared to meaningless ones. From the Figure 7 a) and b) shows that the increasing the parameter (k) from 2 to 3 improves attack success rates for both Qwen2.5-3B and Llama-3.2-3B Instruct category wise, but the mag- nitude of the improvement differs substantially between the models. For Qwen2.5-3B, success 10 Configurations Model Llama 3.2 3B InstructQwen 2.5 3B Selection with k=214.6190.74 Selection with k=316.9589.87 (a) Configurations Model Llama 3.2 3B InstructQwen 2.5 3B Truncated suffix13.2090.42 Not truncated suffix18.3690.20 (b) Table 4: Jailbreak percentage with (a) different k values for tournament selection and (b) varying length of suffixes. rates are already extremely high across all harm categoriesâeven the baseline without suffix per- forms strongly. So, moving from (k=2) to (k=3) yields only marginal gains. This suggests that the model is broadly vulnerable and relatively insen- sitive to incremental increases in attack complex- ity. In contrast, Llama-3.2-3B Instruct exhibits much lower overall success rates and the baseline remains comparatively weak. But, increasing (k) from 2 to 3 produces a consistent improvement across categories. This indicates that stronger alignment in Llama makes it more resistant to simple attacks, but performance degrades as the attack structure becomes more complex. Figure 7 c) and d) shows the effect of suffix truncation on attack success rates is minimal for Qwen2.5-3B but more evident for Llama-3.2-3B Instruct. For Qwen, both truncated and non- truncated suffixes yield almost identical success rates across all categories, with averages around 90%, indicating that the model is highly vulnera- ble and largely insensitive to the suffix length or truncation. In contrast, Llama shows a noticeable drop in success rates when truncation is applied i.e., non-truncated suffixes achieve higher suc- cess across most categories, while truncated ones reduce the effectiveness significantly, though still above baseline. This pattern highlights that mod- els with stronger alignment, like Llama-3.2-3B Instruct, are more sensitive to prompt complete- ness and structure, whereas weaker-aligned mod- els like Qwen2.5-3B are already highly susceptible regardless of truncation. For Qwen 2.5-3B, the baseline performance was already high and adding small suffixes often slightly reduced the success rate of jailbreaks. This likely occurs because additional suffixes can act as noise for an already well-performing model. In contrast, for Llama 3.2-3B, overall jailbreak success remained below 20%, which exceeded the baseline. Notably, meaningful suffixes consistently led to higher jailbreak success than meaning- less ones, highlighting the models sensitivity to prompt content. To provide qualitative insights into the effec- tiveness of the generated adversarial suffixes, rep- resentative inputâoutput examples are included in Appendix A. Table 5 presents the system prompt, harmful prompt and the corresponding adversarial suffix together used as input to the model, along with the responses produced by the target model. These highlight the effectiveness of the proposed attack strategy, showing how the generated adver- sarial suffixes can influence the models behavior and induce jailbreak responses. 5 Related Work Recent studies have delved into automated black- box jailbreak technique based on a genetic algo- rithm [34]. The method evolves universal adversar- ial suffixes that, when appended to user prompts, coerce LLMs to produce harmful outputs without any access to model internals. Its fitness function uses text embeddings and cosine similarity to opti- mize prompt behavior. Though effective across models like LLaMA-2 and Vicuna, Open Sesameâs prompts often contain nonsensical tokens, making them easier to detect. Nonetheless, it highlights the practical risk of universal black-box attacks against commercial LLMs. 11 HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 20 40 60 80 100 Success Rate (%) Llama-3.2-3B Instruct on Qwen2.5-3B Qwen2.5-3B on Qwen2.5-3B Qwen2.5-3B Baseline (no Suffix) (a) HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 10 20 30 Success Rate (%) Llama-3.2-3B Instruct on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Qwen2.5-3B on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Baseline(no Suffix) (b) HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 20 40 60 80 100 Success Rate (%) Meaningful prompts on Qwen2.5-3B Meaningless prompts on Qwen2.5-3B Qwen2.5-3B Baseline(no Suffix) (c) HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 10 20 30 Success Rate (%) Meaningful prompts on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Meaningless prompts on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Baseline(no Suffix) (d) Fig. 6: Jailbreak percentage across different categories - For suffixes generated using Qwen2.5-3B and Llama-3.2-3B Instruct against a) Qwen2.5-3B and b) Llama- 3.2-3B Instruct. For different types of suffixes against c) Qwen2.5-3B and d) Llama-3.2-3B Instruct along with their corresponding baseline(no suffixes). Where Harassment/Hate: H, Misinformation: MI, Self-harm: SH, Malware/Hacking: MH, Illegal: IL, Violence/Terrorism: VT, Sexually explicit: SE. AutoDAN[35]presentsanautomated approachforgeneratingstealthyjailbreak prompts through a hierarchical genetic algorithm. In contrast to manually engineered prompts or token-level perturbation methods, it preserves semantic coherence and fluency while still bypass- ing defenses such as perplexity-based detection. The method surpasses earlier techniques, includ- ing the GCG attack, achieving over 60% greater attack effectiveness and exhibiting strong trans- ferability across different models. By combining automation with linguistic naturalness, Auto- DAN demonstrates how optimization algorithms can exploit the discrete nature of text to produce meaningful and evasive adversarial prompts. A new class of multi-turn jailbreak attacks gradually steers a model toward harmful outputs through a sequence of seemingly benign interac- tions. By exploiting the models tendency to build on earlier responses, the strategy incrementally shifts the conversation in a harmful direction. Its automated variant, Crescendomation, achieves higher success rates than state-of-the-art methods such as PAIR and Many-Shot Jailbreak. Because Crescendo relies on natural, human-like dialogue, it is especially difficult to detect or defend against, representing a significant escalation in attack sophistication [36]. Studies have explored Tree of Attacks with Pruning (TAP) [37], an automated black-box method that iteratively generates candidate adversarial prompts by recursively prompting the target LLM to critique and improve previ- ous attempts, effectively jailbreaking models like GPT-4 with high success rates using fewer queries 12 HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 20 40 60 80 100 Success Rate (%) k=3 on Qwen2.5-3BK=2 on Qwen2.5-3B Qwen2.5-3B Baseline(no Suffix) (a) HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 10 20 30 Success Rate (%) k=3 on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct k=2 on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Baseline(no Suffix) (b) HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 20 40 60 80 100 Success Rate (%) No Truncation on Qwen2.5-3B Truncation on Qwen2.5-3B Qwen2.5-3B Baseline(no Suffix) (c) HHMISHMHILVTSE Categories 0 10 20 30 Success Rate (%) No Truncation on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Truncation on Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Llama-3.2-3B Instruct Baseline(no Suffix) (d) Fig. 7: Jailbreak percentage across different categories - For different k values of tournament selection against a) Qwen2.5-3B and b) Llama-3.2-3B Instruct. With truncation of suffix to match the length of prompt against c) Qwen2.5-3B and d) Llama-3.2-3B Instruct along with their corresponding baseline(no suffixes). Where Harassment/Hate: H, Misinformation: MI, Self-harm: SH, Malware/Hacking: MH, Illegal: IL, Violence/Terrorism: VT, Sexually explicit: SE. than prior techniques. Unlike single-prompt evolu- tion methods, TAP mimics a tree-search process, pruning ineffective branches to focus on promis- ing paths toward harmful outputs. This approach excels in transferability across black-box APIs and highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in commercial LLMs despite safety training. Building on genetic paradigms, GeneShift introduces a black-box jailbreak that optimizes scenario shifts via genetic algorithms, blend- ing transformations to craft stealthy single-turn prompts that elicit detailed harmful responses from models like GPT-4o mini, boosting suc- cess rate. It crafts begin wrappers around harm- ful requests, keeping a harmless surface while targeting weaknesses in model safety training. Experiments underscore its edge over baselines in dictionary and LLM-based harm metrics, urg- ing stronger defenses against adaptive prompt engineering [38, 39]. 6 Conclusion In this work, we introduce GAS-Leak-LLM a versatile, lightweight attack method that uses a genetic algorithm to automatically develop a uni- versal adversarial suffix. Through the use of an evolutionary optimization framework, we show that carefully generated suffixes can influence model behavior and induce jailbreak responses across a wide range of harmful prompts. The results highlight the challenges related with safety alignment and constraints of LLMs, particularly in the presence of adversarial prompt manipulations. 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