{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0019",
 "incident_id": "2025-04-xanthorox-autonomous-offensive-ai-platform",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-04-07",
 "date_occurred": "2025-03",
 "title": "Xanthorox AI: a self-hosted, five-model offensive platform sold on darknet forums for autonomous cyber operations",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "multi_agent_system",
 "initial_vector": "purpose_built_malicious_system",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "code_generation",
  "malware_generation",
  "live_web_search",
  "voice_and_image_input",
  "autonomous_task_execution"
 ],
 "target_product": "Xanthorox AI",
 "target_vendor": "unattributed darknet developers",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "ecosystem_abuse"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "sold in cybercrime communities as a full-spectrum offensive toolkit; targets unbounded",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI04"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "purpose_built_offensive_ai",
   "self_hosted",
   "no_provider_chokepoint",
   "modular_agents",
   "evasion_by_design"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none applicable; runs on private infrastructure outside any provider's control",
 "defense_bypassed": false,
 "fix_shipped": "none possible; no provider account to terminate",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/darknets-xanthorox-ai-hackers-tools/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1015"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Built entirely on private servers, Xanthorox avoids using public APIs or cloud services, significantly reducing its visibility and traceability.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "The structurally important record in the malicious-AI-tooling line. WormGPT and FraudGPT were wrappers relaying to mainstream APIs, so provider enforcement could reach them. Xanthorox is self-hosted across five specialised models, which removes the chokepoint every account-termination remedy in this corpus depends on. Vendor claims about capability are marketing and are not independently verified; the existence and distribution of the platform are. AI Incident Database incident 1015.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "product_misuse"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Unclassified",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "human_acted_on_output",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "an offensive platform sold to operators who run the attacks",
 "vector_family": "malicious_component",
 "vector_detail": "purpose_built_malicious_system",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1015
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI04",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "supply_chain_vulnerabilities",
 "eai_domain": "tool_misuse",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "vector default: malicious_component",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI04 (vector_family=malicious_component)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}