Question Analysis
Identify the PowerShell cmdlet used on Windows to format and display the raw volume bytes after an attacker read the boot sector via a DOS device path.
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Question ID
6/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
38%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
Format-Hex
Model Performance Comparison
See how different AI models performed on this question
| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0347 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0112 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2333 |
| gpt-4.1 | Format-Hex | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "\\.\\" and (ProcessCommandLine has "PhysicalDrive" or ProcessCommandLine has ":")
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("format-hex", "[byte]", "get-content", "-encoding byte", "convertto-hex")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 7.20s | 0.0118 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0499 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0087 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0021 |
| gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0602 |
| grok-3-beta | Format-Hex | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ 'powershell.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('Format-Hex', '\\.\\', 'Read', 'Boot', 'Sector', 'Volume', 'Raw', 'Bytes')
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 1 | 13.20s | 0.0384 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | Format-Hex | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == 'powershell.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'PhysicalDrive' or ProcessCommandLine contains '\\.\\' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'boot sector'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 100 | Correct | 3 | 39.67s | 0.0043 |
| o1-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.7840 |
| o1-low | Format-Hex | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName endswith "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "Format-Hex"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any("\\.\\PhysicalDrive", "\\.\\C:")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 27.24s | 0.2012 |
| o3-mini-high | Format-Hex | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "format-hex"
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "\\.\\"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessId, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 4 | 43.60s | 0.0358 |
| o3-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0464 |
| o4-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0424 |
| o4-mini-low | Format-Hex | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe")
| where ProcessCommandLine has "Format-Hex"
// Optionally narrow to DOS device paths
| where ProcessCommandLine has "\\.\\"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 30.62s | 0.0103 |