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A suspicious registry change was made on a Windows system modifying the Terminal Services DLL path. Investigate registry events to find out which DLL file name was set as the ServiceDll value under TermService. What was the file name?

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Question ID
12/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
75%
Success Rate
Reference Answer

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AtomicTest.dll
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ModelAnswerKQL QueryStatusAttemptsTimeCost
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0219
gpt-35-turbo
termsrv.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has 'TermService' and RegistryValueName has 'ServiceDll' | project RegistryValueData
Incorrect
2
5.31s
0.0046
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains "TermService" and RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | project RegistryValueData
Correct
1
8.25s
0.0491
gpt-4.1
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has "TermService" and RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
6.33s
0.0123
gpt-4.1-finetuned
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where ActionType =~ "RegistryValueSet" | where RegistryKey has "Services\\TermService\\Parameters" and RegistryValueName =~ "ServiceDll" | project RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData
Correct
2
22.53s
0.0263
gpt-4.1-mini
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains "TermService" and RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | project DeviceName, TimeGenerated, RegistryKey, ServiceDllFileName = RegistryValueData | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
2.94s
0.0022
gpt-4.1-nano
termsrv.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has "TermService" and RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueData | take 10
Incorrect
1
2.78s
0.0005
gpt-4o
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" and RegistryKey contains "TermService" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessFileName
Correct
2
5.25s
0.0274
grok-3-beta
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains "TermService" | where RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | extend FileName = extract("[^\\\\]*$", 0, RegistryValueData) | summarize by FileName, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, Timestamp | order by Timestamp desc
Correct
1
10.76s
0.0216
grok-3-mini-beta
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where ActionType == 'RegistryValueSet' // Filter for set operations | where RegistryKey contains 'TermService' // Target the relevant registry key | where RegistryValueName == 'ServiceDll' // Focus on the specific value name | project Timestamp, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData // Select relevant fields | order by Timestamp desc // Sort by time for latest events | take 10 // Limit to top 10 results for review
Correct
1
19.51s
0.0016
o1-high
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has "TermService" | where RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | order by TimeGenerated desc | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData
Correct
1
26.53s
0.1945
o1-low
C:\Users\wipro\AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has "\\Services\\TermService\\Parameters" // or contains "TermService" | where RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | where ActionType in ("RegistryValueSet", "RegistryValueModified", "SetValue", "ValueNameAdded") | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, PreviousRegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ActionType | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
26.96s
0.2093
o3-mini-high
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains "TermService" and RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | extend DllFilePath = RegistryValueData | extend DllFileName = extract(@"([^\\]+\.dll)$", 1, DllFilePath) | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DllFileName, DllFilePath, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | sort by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
88.59s
0.0129
o3-mini-low
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains "TermService" and RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | extend DLLFileName = tostring(extract("([^\\\\]+\\.dll)$", 1, RegistryValueData)) | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueData, DLLFileName | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
3
20.01s
0.0195
o4-mini-high
AtomicTest.dll
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey endswith @"\Services\TermService\Parameters" | where RegistryValueName == "ServiceDll" | where ActionType == "RegistryValueSet" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, RegistryValueData | extend DllFileName = tostring(split(RegistryValueData, "\\")[-1]) | distinct DllFileName
Correct
1
32.93s
0.0113
o4-mini-low
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0326