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During a Linux engagement, an operator exported HISTSIZE=0 to turn off shell history and then ran another utility. Using the DeviceProcessEvents table, identify the exact command executed immediately after the history was disabled. What was the command?
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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 | 0.0656 |
gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0118 |
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | whoami | DeviceProcessEvents | where ProcessCommandLine contains 'HISTSIZE=0' | project DisableHistoryTime = ProcessCreationTime, DeviceId, Initiator_ProcessId = ProcessId | join kind=inner (DeviceProcessEvents | project CommandExecuted = ProcessCommandLine, ExecutionTime = ProcessCreationTime, DeviceId, PrevProcessId = InitiatingProcessId) on DeviceId | where PrevProcessId == Initiator_ProcessId and ExecutionTime > DisableHistoryTime | project CommandExecuted, TimeDifference = ExecutionTime - DisableHistoryTime | top 1 by TimeDifference asc | Correct | 1 | 11.93s | 0.0534 |
gpt-4.1 | /usr/bin/hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "HISTSIZE=0"
| project DeviceId, AccountName, CreatedProcessSessionId, TimeHIST=ProcessCreationTime
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
| project DeviceId, AccountName, CreatedProcessSessionId, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine
) on DeviceId, AccountName, CreatedProcessSessionId
| where ProcessCreationTime > TimeHIST
| summarize NextTime=min(ProcessCreationTime), NextCommand=any(ProcessCommandLine) by DeviceId, AccountName, CreatedProcessSessionId, TimeHIST
| order by TimeHIST desc
| project DeviceId, AccountName, TimeHIST, NextTime, NextCommand | Incorrect | 2 | 11.55s | 0.0229 |
gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0523 |
gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0083 |
gpt-4.1-nano | pwsh -Command "Invoke-AtomicTest T1562.003 -TestGuids 386d3850-2ce7-4508-b56b-c0558922c814 -TimeoutSeconds 120 " | let hist_command = toscalar(
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "HISTSIZE=0"
| summarize max(Timestamp)
);
DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > hist_command
| top 1 by Timestamp asc
| project CommandLine = ProcessCommandLine | Incorrect | 1 | 2.04s | 0.0005 |
gpt-4o | whoami | let disableHistoryCmd = DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "export HISTSIZE=0"
| project DeviceId, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, HistDisableTime=ProcessCreationTime;
DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (disableHistoryCmd) on DeviceId
| where ProcessCreationTime > HistDisableTime
| project ProcessCommandLine, NextCommandTime=ProcessCreationTime
| top 1 by NextCommandTime asc | Correct | 3 | 28.59s | 0.0367 |
gpt-5-high | whoami | let linux = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform =~ "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId, DeviceName;
// 1) History disabled via export in a shell command; get the first spawned child process (the next command)
let hist_shell = DeviceProcessEvents
| where DeviceId in (linux | project DeviceId)
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
| where FileName in~ ("bash","sh","zsh","ksh","dash")
| extend ShellTime = coalesce(ProcessCreationTime, TimeGenerated)
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex "(?i)(^|\\s)export\\s+HISTSIZE\\s*=\\s*0(?:\\s|;|&&|\\|\\||$)"
| project DeviceId, ShellProcId=ProcessId, ShellCommand=ProcessCommandLine, ShellTime;
let children = DeviceProcessEvents
| extend ChildTime = coalesce(ProcessCreationTime, TimeGenerated)
| project DeviceId, InitiatingProcessId, ChildTime, NextFile=FileName, NextCommand=ProcessCommandLine, ChildProcId=ProcessId;
let next_after_export = hist_shell
| join kind=inner (children) on $left.DeviceId == $right.DeviceId and $left.ShellProcId == $right.InitiatingProcessId
| where ChildTime >= ShellTime and ChildTime <= ShellTime + 15m
| summarize arg_min(ChildTime, *) by DeviceId, ShellProcId, ShellTime, ShellCommand
| join kind=leftouter (linux) on DeviceId
| project TimeOfHistOff=ShellTime, DeviceName, DeviceId, ShellCommand, NextCommandTime=ChildTime, NextFile, NextCommand;
// 2) Inline form: HISTSIZE=0 <cmd>; extract the command following the assignment
let inline_form = DeviceProcessEvents
| where DeviceId in (linux | project DeviceId)
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
| extend PTime = coalesce(ProcessCreationTime, TimeGenerated)
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex "(?i)^\\s*HISTSIZE\\s*=\\s*0\\s+.+$"
| extend ExtractedNext = trim(' ', extract("(?i)^\\s*HISTSIZE\\s*=\\s*0\\s+(.+)$", 1, ProcessCommandLine))
| project TimeOfHistOff=PTime, DeviceName, DeviceId, ShellCommand=ProcessCommandLine, NextCommandTime=PTime, NextFile=FileName, NextCommand=ExtractedNext;
union isfuzzy=true next_after_export, inline_form
| order by TimeOfHistOff asc | Correct | 4 | 578.43s | 0.2951 |
gpt-5-mini-high | whoami | let histEvents = DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp between (startofday(ago(30d)) .. now())
| where ProcessCommandLine has "HISTSIZE=0" or ProcessCommandLine has "export HISTSIZE=0" or ProcessCommandLine has "HISTSIZE= 0"
| project DeviceName, Account = InitiatingProcessAccountName, Timestamp, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessId, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessId, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName;
histEvents
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp between (startofday(ago(30d)) .. now())
| project DeviceName2 = DeviceName, Account2 = InitiatingProcessAccountName, Timestamp2 = Timestamp, ProcessCreationTime2 = ProcessCreationTime, ProcessId2 = ProcessId, ProcessCommandLine2 = ProcessCommandLine, FileName2 = FileName
) on $left.DeviceName == $right.DeviceName2 and $left.Account == $right.Account2
| where ProcessCreationTime2 > ProcessCreationTime and ProcessCreationTime2 <= ProcessCreationTime + 1m
| summarize arg_min(ProcessCreationTime2, *) by ProcessId
| project DeviceName, Account, HistEventTime = Timestamp, HistCommand = ProcessCommandLine, NextProcessTime = ProcessCreationTime2, NextProcessId = ProcessId2, NextCommand = ProcessCommandLine2, NextFile = FileName2
| order by NextProcessTime asc
| take 10 | Correct | 1 | 17.03s | 0.0035 |
gpt-5-mini-low | pwsh -Command "Invoke-AtomicTest T1562.003 -TestGuids cada55b4-8251-4c60-819e-8ec1b33c9306 -TimeoutSeconds 120 " | let exports = DeviceProcessEvents
| where (isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine) and tostring(ProcessCommandLine) contains "HISTSIZE=0")
or (isnotempty(InitiatingProcessCommandLine) and tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine) contains "HISTSIZE=0")
| project ExportTime = TimeGenerated,
DeviceId,
DeviceName,
ExportAccount = AccountName,
ExportProcessId = ProcessId,
ExportCmd = coalesce(ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine),
ExportCreatedSessionId = CreatedProcessSessionId,
ExportInitiatingSessionId = InitiatingProcessSessionId,
ExportProcessCreationTime = ProcessCreationTime;
let procs = DeviceProcessEvents
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
| project ProcTime = TimeGenerated,
DeviceId,
ProcAccount = AccountName,
ProcId = ProcessId,
ProcCmd = ProcessCommandLine,
ProcCreatedSessionId = CreatedProcessSessionId,
ProcInitiatingSessionId = InitiatingProcessSessionId,
ProcCreationTime = ProcessCreationTime;
// Find the nearest subsequent process on the same device that matches account or session (within 5 minutes)
exports
| join kind=inner procs on DeviceId
| where ProcTime > ExportTime and ProcTime - ExportTime <= time(5m)
| where ProcAccount == ExportAccount or ProcCreatedSessionId == ExportCreatedSessionId or ProcInitiatingSessionId == ExportInitiatingSessionId
| summarize NextTime = min(ProcTime) by ExportTime, DeviceId, DeviceName, ExportAccount, ExportCmd, ExportCreatedSessionId, ExportInitiatingSessionId
// Get the command line for that next process
| join kind=inner procs on $left.DeviceId == $right.DeviceId and $left.NextTime == $right.ProcTime
| project ExportTime,
DeviceId,
DeviceName,
AccountName = ExportAccount,
ExportCommand = ExportCmd,
SubsequentCommand = ProcCmd,
SubsequentProcTime = ProcTime,
SubsequentProcessId = ProcId
| order by ExportTime desc
| take 50 | Incorrect | 2 | 57.66s | 0.0116 |
gpt-5-mini-medium | pwsh -Command "Invoke-AtomicTest T1562.003 -TestGuids 386d3850-2ce7-4508-b56b-c0558922c814 -TimeoutSeconds 120 " | let WindowSeconds = 10s;
let hist = DeviceProcessEvents
| where tostring(ProcessCommandLine) has_any ("HISTSIZE=0", "export HISTSIZE=0")
or tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine) has_any ("HISTSIZE=0", "export HISTSIZE=0")
| project Hist_Time = TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, Hist_ProcessId = ProcessId, Hist_CommandLine = tostring(ProcessCommandLine), Hist_InitiatingProcessId = InitiatingProcessId, Hist_InitiatingProcessCommandLine = tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine), AccountName, AccountDomain;
let next = DeviceProcessEvents
| project Next_Time = TimeGenerated, DeviceId, Next_ProcessId = ProcessId, Next_CommandLine = tostring(ProcessCommandLine), Next_InitiatingProcessId = InitiatingProcessId, Next_InitiatingProcessCommandLine = tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine), AccountNameNext = AccountName, AccountDomainNext = AccountDomain;
hist
| join kind=inner (next) on DeviceId
| where Next_Time > Hist_Time and Next_Time <= Hist_Time + WindowSeconds
| summarize MinNextTime = min(Next_Time) by Hist_Time, DeviceId, DeviceName, Hist_ProcessId, Hist_CommandLine, Hist_InitiatingProcessCommandLine, AccountName, AccountDomain
| join kind=inner (
next
) on $left.DeviceId == $right.DeviceId and $left.MinNextTime == $right.Next_Time
| project DeviceName, DeviceId, HIST_Time = Hist_Time, Hist_ProcessId, Hist_CommandLine, Next_Time = MinNextTime, Next_ProcessId, Next_CommandLine, Next_InitiatingProcessCommandLine, AccountName, AccountDomain
| order by HIST_Time desc | Incorrect | 2 | 47.25s | 0.0104 |
gpt-5-nano-high | sh -c 'echo $HISTSIZE; export HISTSIZE=0; echo "runnning some commands to populate the history"; whoami; groups; if [ $(echo $HISTSIZE) -eq 0 ]; then echo "\\$HISTSIZE is zero"; else HIST_LENGTH=$(wc -l $HISTFILE); echo "\\$HISTSIZE is not zero, history size is $HIST_LENGTH"; fi' | let Hist = DeviceProcessEvents
| where (InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains_cs "export HISTSIZE=0" or ProcessCommandLine contains_cs "export HISTSIZE=0" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains_cs "HISTSIZE=0" or ProcessCommandLine contains_cs "HISTSIZE=0")
| project HistoryTime = TimeGenerated, HistoryDeviceId = DeviceId, HistorySession = CreatedProcessSessionId, HistoryCmdLine = InitiatingProcessCommandLine, HistoryProc = InitiatingProcessFileName;
let Nexts = DeviceProcessEvents
| project NextTime = TimeGenerated, NextDeviceId = DeviceId, NextSession = CreatedProcessSessionId, NextCmdLine = InitiatingProcessCommandLine, NextProc = InitiatingProcessFileName;
Hist
| join kind=inner (Nexts) on $left.HistoryDeviceId == $right.NextDeviceId and $left.HistorySession == $right.NextSession
| where NextTime > HistoryTime
| summarize arg_min(NextTime, NextCmdLine, NextProc) by HistoryTime, HistoryDeviceId, HistorySession, HistoryCmdLine, HistoryProc
| project HistoryTime, HistoryDeviceId, HistorySession, HistoryCmdLine, HistoryProc, NextTime, NextCmdLine, NextProc | Correct | 2 | 88.75s | 0.0057 |
gpt-5-nano-medium | bash /root/AtomicRedTeam/atomics/T1059.004/src/AutoSUID.sh | let hist = DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName in ("bash","sh","zsh","dash")
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "HISTSIZE=0" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "export HISTSIZE=0"
| project hist_time = InitiatingProcessCreationTime, hist_line = InitiatingProcessCommandLine, session = InitiatingProcessSessionId;
let cand = DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName in ("bash","sh","zsh","dash")
| project cand_time = InitiatingProcessCreationTime, cand_line = InitiatingProcessCommandLine, session = InitiatingProcessSessionId;
hist
| join kind=inner (cand) on session
| where cand_time > hist_time
| summarize next_time = min(cand_time) by hist_time, hist_line, session
| join kind=inner (cand) on session
| where cand_time == next_time
| project hist_time, hist_line, next_command = cand_line
| order by hist_time asc | Incorrect | 3 | 120.59s | 0.0060 |
grok-3-beta | pwsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(90d)
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "HISTSIZE=0" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "HISTSIZE=0"
| project Timestamp, DeviceId, DeviceName, AccountName, HistoryDisableCommandLine = ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingCommandLine = InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(90d)
| project Timestamp, DeviceId, AccountName, NextCommandLine = ProcessCommandLine, NextTimestamp = Timestamp
) on DeviceId, AccountName
| where NextTimestamp > Timestamp
| summarize arg_min(NextTimestamp, NextCommandLine) by Timestamp, DeviceId, DeviceName, AccountName, HistoryDisableCommandLine, InitiatingCommandLine
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, HistoryDisableCommandLine, NextCommandLine, NextTimestamp
| order by Timestamp desc | Incorrect | 1 | 26.81s | 0.0308 |
grok-3-mini-beta | whoami | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "export HISTSIZE=0"
| project DeviceId, HistoryTime = TimeGenerated
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
) on DeviceId
| where TimeGenerated > HistoryTime
| summarize arg_min(TimeGenerated, NextCommand=ProcessCommandLine) by DeviceId, HistoryTime
| project NextCommand
| distinct NextCommand | Correct | 3 | 51.79s | 0.0047 |
o1-high | whoami | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| order by DeviceId asc, TimeGenerated asc
| serialize
| extend NextCommandLine = next(ProcessCommandLine)
| extend NextProcessTime = next(TimeGenerated)
| where ProcessCommandLine has "export HISTSIZE=0"
| project DeviceName, NextProcessTime, NextCommandLine
| order by NextProcessTime asc | Correct | 2 | 105.02s | 0.6503 |
o1-low | whoami | // Find processes where HISTSIZE was disabled
let TurnOffHistory = DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "export HISTSIZE=0"
| project DeviceId, AccountSid, TurnOffTime=ProcessCreationTime;
// Join against all DeviceProcessEvents to find the earliest next command
TurnOffHistory
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
| project DeviceId, AccountSid, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine
) on DeviceId, AccountSid
| where ProcessCreationTime > TurnOffTime
| summarize arg_min(ProcessCreationTime, *) by DeviceId, AccountSid, TurnOffTime
| project DeviceId, AccountSid, TurnOffTime, NextCommand=ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 2 | 127.81s | 0.5293 |
o3-high | whoami | // Find the very first process that ran after the operator turned off bash history (export HISTSIZE=0)
// Time range is controlled by the surrounding workbook / hunting page and will be supplied automatically
let HistoryOffEvents = DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"\bexport\b.*\bHISTSIZE\s*=\s*0\b"
| project DeviceId,
SessionId = InitiatingProcessSessionId,
HistOffTime = TimeGenerated,
HistOffCmd = ProcessCommandLine;
// For each “history-off” event, get the next command seen in the same device + shell session
DeviceProcessEvents
| extend SessionId = InitiatingProcessSessionId
| join kind=inner (HistoryOffEvents) on DeviceId, SessionId
| where TimeGenerated > HistOffTime // only events occurring after the export
| summarize arg_min(TimeGenerated, ProcessCommandLine) // pick the earliest one after the export
by DeviceId, SessionId, HistOffTime, HistOffCmd
| project DeviceId,
SessionId,
HistOffTime,
HistOffCmd,
NextCommandTime = TimeGenerated,
NextCommand = ProcessCommandLine
| order by HistOffTime asc | Correct | 2 | 103.05s | 0.0625 |
o3-mini-high | nextCmd | let disableEvents =
DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "export HISTSIZE=0"
| project CreatedProcessSessionId, disable_time = ProcessCreationTime;
DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (disableEvents) on CreatedProcessSessionId
| where ProcessCreationTime > disable_time
| summarize nextCmd = arg_min(ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine) by CreatedProcessSessionId, disable_time
| project nextCmd
| Incorrect | 1 | 16.56s | 0.0128 |
o3-mini-low | whoami | let disableEvents =
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "HISTSIZE=0"
| project DeviceId, DisableTime = ProcessCreationTime, DisableCommand = ProcessCommandLine;
let subsequentCommands =
DeviceProcessEvents
| project DeviceId, ProcessCreationTime, NextCommand = ProcessCommandLine;
disableEvents
| join kind=inner (subsequentCommands) on DeviceId
| where ProcessCreationTime > DisableTime
| summarize FirstSubsequentCommand = arg_min(ProcessCreationTime, NextCommand) by DeviceId, DisableTime, DisableCommand
| project DeviceId, DisableTime, DisableCommand, FirstSubsequentCommand
| limit 1 | Correct | 3 | 43.45s | 0.0351 |
o4-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0509 |
o4-mini-low | whoami | let histOff = DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "HISTSIZE=0"
| project DeviceId, Session = CreatedProcessSessionId, histTime = TimeGenerated;
histOff
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
| project DeviceId, Session = CreatedProcessSessionId, nextTime = TimeGenerated, nextCmd = ProcessCommandLine
) on DeviceId, Session
| where nextTime > histTime
| summarize arg_min(nextTime, nextCmd) by DeviceId, Session
| project DeviceId, CommandRunAfterHistOff = nextCmd, TimeRun = nextTime | Correct | 2 | 79.03s | 0.0231 |