Question Analysis

An attacker obtained elevated rights on a Windows system and ran a deletion command that attempted to remove various backup file types across the C: drive, generating numerous “access denied” errors. What was the full command line used?

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Question ID
3/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
19%
Success Rate
Reference Answer

Human-validated correct answer for this question

del /s /f /q c:\*.VHD c:\*.bac c:\*.bak c:\*.wbcat c:\*.bkf c:\Backup*.* c:\backup*.* c:\*.set c:\*.win c:\*.dsk
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ModelAnswerKQL QueryStatusAttemptsTimeCost
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
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5
0.00s
0.0638
gpt-35-turbo
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5
0.00s
0.0112
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
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5
0.00s
0.2401
gpt-4.1
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5
0.00s
0.0413
gpt-4.1-finetuned
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5
0.00s
0.0364
gpt-4.1-mini
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5
0.00s
0.0608
gpt-4.1-nano
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5
0.00s
0.0016
gpt-4o
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5
0.00s
0.0459
grok-3-beta
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5
0.00s
0.0958
grok-3-mini-beta
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Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0080
o1-high
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Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.9356
o1-low
"cmd.exe" /c del /s /f /q c:\*.VHD c:\*.bac c:\*.bak c:\*.wbcat c:\*.bkf c:\Backup*.* c:\backup*.* c:\*.set c:\*.win c:\*.dsk
DeviceProcessEvents | where ActionType == "ProcessCreated" | where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("del", "erase", "Remove-Item", "rm") | where ProcessCommandLine contains "C:" | where ProcessCommandLine has_any (".bak", ".bkf", ".bkp") | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName, FullCommandLine = ProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
3
93.54s
0.6860
o3-mini-high
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0469
o3-mini-low
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0539
o4-mini-high
"cmd.exe" /c del /s /f /q c:\*.VHD c:\*.bac c:\*.bak c:\*.wbcat c:\*.bkf c:\Backup*.* c:\backup*.* c:\*.set c:\*.win c:\*.dsk
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName in ("cmd.exe", "erase.exe") | where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("del", "erase") | where ProcessCommandLine has_any (".bak", ".bkf", ".zip", ".rar") | where ProcessCommandLine contains "C:\\" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName = InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine | sort by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
4
113.40s
0.0413
o4-mini-low
"cmd.exe" /c del /s /f /q c:\*.VHD c:\*.bac c:\*.bak c:\*.wbcat c:\*.bkf c:\Backup*.* c:\backup*.* c:\*.set c:\*.win c:\*.dsk
DeviceProcessEvents | where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("del", "erase") | where ProcessCommandLine has_any (".bak", ".bkf", ".vhd") | summarize Occurrences = count() by FullCommandLine = ProcessCommandLine | top 1 by Occurrences desc | project FullCommandLine
Correct
2
86.60s
0.0247