Question Analysis
A suspicious elevated shell on Linux changed a file’s permissions for a user to include the SetUID bit. What was the exact command used to set that flag?
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Question ID
1/23
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
4%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
chmod u+xs /tmp/evilBinary
Model Performance Comparison
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0205 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0114 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2293 |
| gpt-4.1 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0809 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0442 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0075 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0013 |
| gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0496 |
| gpt-5-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2756 |
| gpt-5-mini-high | chmod u+xs /tmp/evilBinary | let linuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where tostring(OSPlatform) != '' and (tolower(tostring(OSPlatform)) contains "linux" or tolower(tostring(OSDistribution)) contains "linux")
| distinct DeviceId;
union
(
DeviceEvents
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, ActionType, FileName, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, Command = tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine), InitiatingProcessFileName, Additional = tostring(AdditionalFields)
),
(
DeviceFileEvents
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, ActionType, FileName, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, Command = tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine), InitiatingProcessFileName, Additional = tostring(AdditionalFields)
),
(
DeviceProcessEvents
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, ActionType, FileName, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, Command = tostring(coalesce(InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine)), InitiatingProcessFileName, Additional = tostring(AdditionalFields)
)
| where DeviceId in (linuxDevices)
// Look for known indicators of SetUID being set
| where Command has_any ("chmod","+s","u+s","475","setuid","suid","setfacl","setfattr","chown")
or Additional has_any ("suid","+s","u+s","475","chmod","setuid")
| extend ExactCommand = extract(@"(?i)(chmod\s+[^;|&]*)", 1, Command)
| extend ExactCommand = iff(isnotempty(ExactCommand), ExactCommand, extract(@"(?i)(setfacl\s+[^;|&]*)", 1, Command))
| extend ExactCommand = iff(isnotempty(ExactCommand), ExactCommand, extract(@"(?i)(setfattr\s+[^;|&]*)", 1, Command))
| extend ExactCommand = iff(isnotempty(ExactCommand), ExactCommand, extract(@"(?i)(chown\s+[^;|&]*)", 1, Command))
| extend FullPath = strcat(tostring(FolderPath), "/", tostring(FileName))
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DeviceId, AccountDomain = InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, AccountName = InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, FullPath, ExactCommand, Command, ActionType, Additional
| where isnotempty(ExactCommand) or Additional has_any ("suid","+s","u+s","475")
| summarize LatestTime = max(TimeGenerated), DeviceName = any(DeviceName), AccountDomain = any(AccountDomain), AccountName = any(AccountName), InitiatingProcessFileName = any(InitiatingProcessFileName), Command = any(Command), ExactCommand = any(ExactCommand), ActionType = any(ActionType), Additional = any(Additional) by DeviceId, FullPath
| order by LatestTime desc
| project LatestTime, DeviceName, FullPath, ExactCommand, Command, AccountDomain, AccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ActionType, Additional
| take 100 | Correct | 2 | 46.66s | 0.0153 |
| gpt-5-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0187 |
| gpt-5-mini-medium | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0166 |
| gpt-5-nano-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0092 |
| gpt-5-nano-medium | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0083 |
| grok-3-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.3540 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0070 |
| o1-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.7214 |
| o1-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.8089 |
| o3-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0924 |
| o3-mini-high | chmod +x /root/AtomicRedTeam/atomics/T1059.004/src/AutoSUID.sh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where isnotempty(InitiatingProcessCommandLine)
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "chmod"
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "4"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FolderPath, FileName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Incorrect | 5 | 72.12s | 0.0719 |
| o3-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0432 |
| o4-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0511 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0444 |