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A Windows system shows a cmd.exe process spawn that appears to have been used for environment discovery. Review the process creation records to identify the exact command the adversary ran to enumerate environment variables.
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Question ID
12/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
75%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | set | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "/c set"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 3 | 47.24s | 0.0237 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0107 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | set comspec=%windir%\System32\calc.exe & cscript %windir%\System32\manage-bde.wsf | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == 'cmd.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'set' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'env' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'echo'
| project DeviceName, DeviceId, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc | Correct | 2 | 26.05s | 0.1400 |
| gpt-4.1 | set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ActionType has_any ("ProcessCreated", "CreateProcess")
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)set(\s|$)"
or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)echo\s+%[A-Z_]+%"
or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)for.*%[A-Z_]+%"
or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"%[A-Za-z0-9_]+%"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 5 | 34.90s | 0.0987 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | "cmd.exe" /c set "SYSTEMROOT=C:\Windows\Temp" && cmd /c desktopimgdownldr.exe /lockscreenurl:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/master/atomics/T1197/T1197.md /eventName:desktopimgdownldr | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe" and (ProcessCommandLine has "set" ) | Correct | 1 | 14.32s | 0.0269 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("set ", "echo %", "env")
| project DeviceName, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc | Correct | 1 | 4.31s | 0.0025 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation /v TimeZoneKeyName | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "set" or ProcessCommandLine contains "env"
| project ProcessId, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessId, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, DeviceName, FileName | Correct | 1 | 2.86s | 0.0009 |
| gpt-4o | "cmd.exe" /c set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == "cmd.exe"
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "set"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, AccountDomain, FileName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 3.40s | 0.0218 |
| grok-3-beta | set | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "set" or ProcessCommandLine contains "env" or ProcessCommandLine contains "printenv"
| project DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc | Correct | 1 | 12.86s | 0.0365 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | "cmd.exe" /c set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == 'cmd.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'set'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 100 | Correct | 1 | 19.05s | 0.0023 |
| o1-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 1.6474 |
| o1-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 1.5992 |
| o3-mini-high | set | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "/c set" or ProcessCommandLine has "set"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 20.60s | 0.0173 |
| o3-mini-low | set | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains_cs "set"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessId, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FolderPath
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 44.32s | 0.0204 |
| o4-mini-high | cmd.exe /c set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "/c set"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 48.11s | 0.0086 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0346 |