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A user launched a Windows command prompt and executed a built-in utility to enumerate all active network connections. Using process creation logs, identify the exact tool that produced the list of current connections.
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Question ID
14/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
88%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
netstat
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Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
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gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where FileName =~ "netstat.exe"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName | Correct | 1 | 10.38s | 0.0041 |
gpt-35-turbo | NETSTAT.EXE | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == 'ProcessCreated'
| where FileName endswith '.exe' and tolower(FileName) contains 'netstat' // Filter for 'netstat' utility
| extend CommandLine = tolower(InitiatingProcessCommandLine)
| where CommandLine contains 'netstat' // Filter for the specific netstat command | Correct | 1 | 2.52s | 0.0030 |
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName == 'cmd.exe' and ProcessCommandLine has 'netstat'
| project DeviceId, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine, TimeGenerated
| distinct DeviceId, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine, TimeGenerated | Correct | 1 | 8.65s | 0.0506 |
gpt-4.1 | NETSTAT.EXE | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "netstat.exe" or FileName =~ "netstat"
| extend Parent = InitiatingProcessFileName
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, Parent, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 5.40s | 0.0130 |
gpt-4.1-finetuned | None | let CmdStart = DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| summarize arg_min(Timestamp, *) by InitiatingProcessAccountSid, DeviceName, FileName;
let BuiltinTools = dynamic([
"netstat.exe",
"net.exe",
"tasklist.exe"
]);
let OriginalTool = DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner
(
CmdStart
)
on $left.DeviceName == $right.DeviceName, $left.InitiatingProcessAccountSid == $right.InitiatingProcessAccountSid
| where FileName in (BuiltinTools)
| summarize arg_min(Timestamp, *) by DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountSid, FileName;
OriginalTool
| extend ToConsole = iif(isnotempty(ProcessVersionInfoFileDescription), 1, 0)
| extend Filename = iif(ToConsole == 1, "N/A", tostring(split(ProcessCommandLine, ">", 1)[1]))
| project-reorder DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountSid, FileName, ToConsole, Filename
| sort by DeviceName desc, InitiatingProcessAccountSid
// The query outputs details about the tool found in the cmd.exe process tree, whether output went to the console or file, and the associated machine/user details.
| Incorrect | 5 | 83.94s | 0.0843 |
gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0055 |
gpt-4.1-nano | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where (FileName endswith 'cmd.exe' or InitiatingProcessFileName endswith 'cmd.exe')
| extend ProcessCmdLine = coalesce(InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine)
| where ProcessCmdLine contains 'netstat' or ProcessCmdLine contains '/netstat'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCmdLine, InitiatingProcessId
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 4 | 25.25s | 0.0014 |
gpt-4o | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("netstat", "nbtstat")
| extend ToolName = iff(InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "netstat", "netstat", iff(InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "nbtstat", "nbtstat", ""))
| project TimeGenerated, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ToolName | Correct | 2 | 20.23s | 0.0402 |
grok-3-beta | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ 'cmd.exe'
| where FileName in~ ('netstat.exe', 'ipconfig.exe', 'arp.exe')
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime, InitiatingProcessAccountName
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 2 | 21.83s | 0.0383 |
grok-3-mini-beta | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'netstat'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 10 | Correct | 2 | 20.14s | 0.0031 |
o1-high | NETSTAT.EXE | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where FileName =~ "netstat.exe"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 33.42s | 0.2441 |
o1-low | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where FileName =~ "netstat.exe"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 17.17s | 0.1590 |
o3-mini-high | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
and ProcessCommandLine has "netstat"
| extend ToolExecuted = tostring(split(ProcessCommandLine, ' ')[0])
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, ToolExecuted
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 10.27s | 0.0100 |
o3-mini-low | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe" and FileName =~ "netstat.exe"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime
| Correct | 1 | 25.81s | 0.0079 |
o4-mini-high | netstat.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where tolower(InitiatingProcessFileName) == "cmd.exe"
| where tolower(FileName) == "netstat.exe"
or ProcessCommandLine has_any ("netstat", "Get-NetTCPConnection")
| project TimeGenerated,
DeviceName,
AccountName,
InitiatingProcessFileName,
InitiatingProcessCommandLine,
ChildProcessFileName = FileName,
ChildProcessCommandLine = ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 74.57s | 0.0198 |
o4-mini-low | netstat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName == "cmd.exe"
// Filter to child processes of cmd.exe that enumerate network connections
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "netstat"
// Select relevant details to identify the tool and context
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 31.35s | 0.0123 |