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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
17/23
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
74%
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ModelAnswerKQL QueryStatusAttemptsTimeCost
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|$)" or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)echo\s+%[A-Z_]+%" or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)for.*%[A-Z_]+%" or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"%[A-Za-z0-9_]+%" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
5
34.90s
0.0987
gpt-4.1-finetuned
"cmd.exe" /c set "SYSTEMROOT=C:\Windows\Temp" && cmd /c desktopimgdownldr.exe /lockscreenurl:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/master/atomics/T1197/T1197.md /eventName:desktopimgdownldr
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName =~ "cmd.exe" and (ProcessCommandLine has "set" )
Correct
1
14.32s
0.0269
gpt-4.1-mini
set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName == "cmd.exe" | where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("set ", "echo %", "env") | project DeviceName, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine | order by ProcessCreationTime desc
Correct
1
4.31s
0.0025
gpt-4.1-nano
reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation /v TimeZoneKeyName
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName =~ "cmd.exe" | where ProcessCommandLine contains "set" or ProcessCommandLine contains "env" | project ProcessId, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessId, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, DeviceName, FileName
Correct
1
2.86s
0.0009
gpt-4o
"cmd.exe" /c set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName == "cmd.exe" | where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "set" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, AccountDomain, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
Correct
1
3.40s
0.0218
gpt-5-high
set
let envVarToken = @"(?i)%[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*%"; DeviceProcessEvents | where ActionType == "ProcessCreated" | where FileName =~ "cmd.exe" | extend cmd = tostring(ProcessCommandLine) | where // set listing (no assignment) (cmd matches regex @"(?i)\b(?:/c|/k)?\s*set(\s|$|\|)" and not(cmd matches regex @"(?i)\bset\s+/(?:a|p)\b") and not(cmd matches regex @"(?i)\bset\s+[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*\s*=")) or cmd matches regex @"(?i)\bfor\s+/f.*\('set'\)" // for /f ... in ('set') or cmd matches regex @"(?i)\bset\s*\|\s*findstr\b" // set piped to findstr or cmd matches regex strcat(@"(?i)\becho\s+", envVarToken) // echo %VAR% | extend EnumMethod = case( cmd matches regex @"(?i)\bfor\s+/f.*\('set'\)", "for /f in ('set')", cmd matches regex @"(?i)\bset\s*\|\s*findstr\b", "set | findstr", cmd matches regex @"(?i)\becho\s+%[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*%", "echo %VAR%", cmd matches regex @"(?i)\bset(\s|$|\|)", "set listing", "unknown") | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, EnumMethod, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessId, InitiatingProcessId, LogonId, InitiatingProcessLogonId, MachineGroup | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
95.99s
0.0600
gpt-5-mini-high
set
( DeviceProcessEvents | extend SourceTable = "DeviceProcessEvents", CmdLine = tostring(ProcessCommandLine), EventTime = ProcessCreationTime ) | union ( DeviceEvents | extend SourceTable = "DeviceEvents", CmdLine = tostring(coalesce(ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, tostring(AdditionalFields.CommandLine))), EventTime = coalesce(ProcessCreationTime, TimeGenerated) ) | where tolower(FileName) == "cmd.exe" or tolower(InitiatingProcessFileName) == "cmd.exe" or tolower(CmdLine) contains "cmd.exe" | where isnotempty(CmdLine) // Look for common environment-enumeration commands: 'set', 'setx', or 'echo %VAR%' | where CmdLine matches regex @"(?i)\b(set|setx)\b" or CmdLine matches regex @"(?i)echo\s+%[A-Za-z0-9_]+%" | project EventTime, SourceTable, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName, FileName, ProcessId, CmdLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessId, ReportId | sort by EventTime desc | take 200
Correct
1
32.84s
0.0097
gpt-5-mini-low
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0268
gpt-5-mini-medium
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0148
gpt-5-nano-high
"cmd.exe" /c set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe
DeviceProcessEvents | where (FileName == "cmd.exe" or InitiatingProcessFileName == "cmd.exe" or ProcessCommandLine contains "cmd.exe" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "cmd.exe") | extend CmdLine = coalesce(ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine) | extend CmdLineLC = tolower(CmdLine) | where CmdLineLC contains " set " or CmdLineLC contains " /c set" or CmdLineLC contains " /k set" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DeviceId, CmdLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessId, InitiatingProcessCreationTime | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
41.03s
0.0026
gpt-5-nano-medium
cmd.exe /c set comspec=%windir%\System32\cmd.exe
let TimeRange = 24h; DeviceProcessEvents | where tolower(FileName) == "cmd.exe" or tolower(InitiatingProcessFileName) == "cmd.exe" or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "cmd.exe" | where ProcessCreationTime >= ago(TimeRange) | where ProcessCommandLine contains "set" | project TimeCreated = ProcessCreationTime, DeviceName, DeviceId, ProcessId, InitiatingProcessId, CommandLine = ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessCreationTime | sort by TimeCreated desc
Correct
1
35.06s
0.0036
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-high
set
// --- cmd.exe used for environment variable discovery --------------------------------- DeviceProcessEvents | where ActionType == "ProcessCreated" // new process start | where FileName =~ "cmd.exe" // only CMD shells // -------------------------------------------------------------------- // Identify typical env-var enumeration syntaxes issued from cmd.exe // – "cmd /c set" (dump all variables) // – "set <filter>" (filtered dump) // – "wmic environment get …" (WMIC technique) // – "echo %VAR%" (echo individual variable) // -------------------------------------------------------------------- | where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)(/c\s+)?set(\s|$|>|&)|wmic\s+environment|echo\s+%[A-Z0-9_]+%" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ReportId, SHA256 | order by TimeGenerated asc
Correct
5
779.89s
0.1242
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