Question Analysis
A Windows host recorded a process that simply executes the system’s native time utility. Without spelling out the query, determine which command was run based on process creation events.
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Question ID
11/23
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
48%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
time
Model Performance Comparison
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Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
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gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0233 |
gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0108 |
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2280 |
gpt-4.1 | cmd.exe /c time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"\btime\b"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FolderPath, FileName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 2 | 7.67s | 0.0150 |
gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0363 |
gpt-4.1-mini | w32tm /tz | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in ("w32tm.exe", "time.exe")
| project DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc | Incorrect | 1 | 7.41s | 0.0023 |
gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0017 |
gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0476 |
gpt-5-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2453 |
gpt-5-mini-high | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
| where FileName =~ "time.exe" or FileName =~ "w32tm.exe" or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"\b(time|time\.exe|w32tm|w32tm\.exe)\b"
| extend Command = trim("\"' ", ProcessCommandLine)
| summarize Count = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by DeviceName, FileName, ProcessId, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessId, Command
| order by LastSeen desc | Correct | 1 | 24.55s | 0.0087 |
gpt-5-mini-low | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName has_cs "time" or ProcessCommandLine has_cs "time" or ProcessCommandLine has_cs "get-date" or ProcessCommandLine has_cs "w32tm"
| extend FileNameLower = tolower(FileName), Cmd = tostring(ProcessCommandLine)
| where FileNameLower in ("time.exe","time") or Cmd has_cs " time " or Cmd startswith_cs "time" or Cmd contains "/c time" or Cmd has_cs "get-date" or Cmd has_cs "w32tm"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, AccountDomain, ProcessId, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| distinct DeviceName, TimeGenerated, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessId
| limit 100 | Correct | 1 | 10.50s | 0.0029 |
gpt-5-mini-medium | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0117 |
gpt-5-nano-high | cmd.exe /c time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where (InitiatingProcessFileName has_cs "cmd.exe" and (ProcessCommandLine has_cs "time" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_cs "time")) or (FileName has_cs "time.exe" or FileName has_cs "time" or (ProcessCommandLine has_cs "time"))
| extend CmdLine = coalesce(ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine)
| extend TimeArg = extract(@"(?i)time(?:\\.exe)?\\s*(.*)", 1, CmdLine)
| extend DetectedTimeRun = strcat("time", iff(isempty(TimeArg), "", strcat(" ", TimeArg)))
| project TimeGenerated = ProcessCreationTime, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, CmdLine, DetectedTimeRun
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 77.00s | 0.0062 |
gpt-5-nano-medium | time | let TimeWindow = 1d;
DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(TimeWindow)
| where (tolower(FileName) endswith "time.exe" or tolower(FileName) endswith "time" or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "time" or tolower(InitiatingProcessCommandLine) contains "time")
| extend IsCmdLauncher = (tolower(InitiatingProcessFileName) endswith "cmd.exe" or tolower(InitiatingProcessFileName) endswith "cmd")
| extend RunType = case(
tolower(FileName) endswith "time.exe", "time.exe external",
IsCmdLauncher and (tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "time" or tolower(InitiatingProcessCommandLine) contains "time"), "cmd built-in time",
IsCmdLauncher, "cmd built-in time",
"other"
)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, RunType
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by DeviceName
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 4 | 130.81s | 0.0078 |
grok-3-beta | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName has 'time' or ProcessCommandLine has 'time'
| project DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, FileName, ProcessCreationTime, FolderPath
| top 100 by ProcessCreationTime desc | Correct | 2 | 16.01s | 0.0811 |
grok-3-mini-beta | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("time")
| project DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, Timestamp
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 1 | 19.97s | 0.0058 |
o1-high | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName in~ ("cmd.exe", "powershell.exe")
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "time"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FolderPath, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, AccountName, AccountDomain
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 50.06s | 0.3959 |
o1-low | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe" or FileName =~ "powershell.exe" or FileName =~ "time.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "time"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FolderPath, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, AccountName, AccountDomain, SHA1, MD5 | Correct | 2 | 54.02s | 0.4051 |
o3-high | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
// --- direct execution of the utility ---
| where FileName =~ "time.exe" or
(FileName =~ "cmd.exe" and tolower(ProcessCommandLine) matches regex @"/c\s+time(\s+/t)?\b")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName,
FileName, ProcessCommandLine,
InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 64.85s | 0.0429 |
o3-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0380 |
o3-mini-low | time | DeviceProcessEvents
| where tolower(FileName) == "time.exe" or (tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "time" and tolower(FolderPath) contains "system32")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 5 | 90.27s | 0.0492 |
o4-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0412 |
o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0319 |