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Investigate registry modifications on Windows that reveal when cmd.exe persistence was configured via the CommandProcessor AutoRun key. What command was configured under the AutoRun value?

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14/23
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1
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61%
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notepad.exe
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ModelAnswerKQL QueryStatusAttemptsTimeCost
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where ActionType in ("RegistryValueSet", "RegistryKeySet") | where RegistryKey contains "Command Processor" | where RegistryValueName =~ "AutoRun" | project Timestamp, DeviceName, ActionType, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName
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1
6.87s
0.0024
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
0.2339
gpt-4.1
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where ActionType in ('RegistryValueSet', 'RegistryValueCreated') | where RegistryKey has @'Software\Microsoft\Command Processor' | where RegistryValueName == 'AutoRun' | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
Correct
5
21.29s
0.0443
gpt-4.1-finetuned
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0421
gpt-4.1-mini
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0072
gpt-4.1-nano
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0011
gpt-4o
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains "\\Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor" and RegistryValueName == "AutoRun" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
Correct
2
6.09s
0.0285
gpt-5-high
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where ActionType in~ ('RegistryValueSet','RegistryValueCreate') | where RegistryValueName =~ 'AutoRun' | where tolower(RegistryKey) has '\\software\\microsoft\\command processor' or tolower(RegistryKey) has '\\software\\wow6432node\\microsoft\\command processor' // Identify the hive (HKLM vs user hive) | extend rk = tolower(RegistryKey) | extend Hive = case( rk startswith 'hkey_local_machine' or rk startswith 'hklm', 'HKLM', rk startswith 'hkey_current_user' or rk startswith 'hkcu' or rk startswith 'hkey_users' or rk startswith 'hku', 'HKCU/HKU', 'Other') // Latest AutoRun configuration per device + hive | summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, RegistryKey, RegistryValueData, PreviousRegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessSHA1, ActionType) by DeviceId, DeviceName, Hive | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, Hive, RegistryKey, AutoRunCommand = tostring(RegistryValueData), PreviousAutoRunCommand = tostring(PreviousRegistryValueData), ActionType, SetBy = iff(isempty(InitiatingProcessAccountDomain), InitiatingProcessAccountName, strcat(InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, '\\', InitiatingProcessAccountName)), SettingProcess = InitiatingProcessFileName, SettingProcessCommandLine = InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessSHA1 | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
3
254.03s
0.1329
gpt-5-mini-high
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has_cs "\\Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor" or RegistryKey has_cs "\\Software\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Command Processor" | where RegistryValueName == "AutoRun" | where ActionType in ("SetValue", "Created", "Modified", "ValueSet") or RegistryValueData != "" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DeviceId, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessAccountName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, PreviousRegistryValueData, ActionType, ReportId | extend AutoRunCommand = tostring(RegistryValueData) | order by TimeGenerated desc | take 50
Correct
1
7.78s
0.0026
gpt-5-mini-low
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has_any ("\\Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor", "\\Command Processor") | where RegistryValueName =~ "AutoRun" | where RegistryKey has_any ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER", "HKCU", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE", "HKLM") | where ActionType in ("SetValue", "Create", "Modify", "Add", "ValueSet", "Delete", "Remove") or isnotempty(RegistryValueData) or isnotempty(PreviousRegistryValueData) | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, PreviousRegistryValueData, RegistryValueType, ActionType, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessId, InitiatingProcessCreationTime, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, InitiatingProcessParentId, InitiatingProcessRemoteSessionIP | order by TimeGenerated desc | take 500
Correct
1
12.66s
0.0023
gpt-5-mini-medium
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0186
gpt-5-nano-high
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0066
gpt-5-nano-medium
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryValueName == "AutoRun" | where (RegistryKey contains "Command Processor") or (RegistryKey contains "CommandProcessor") | where ActionType in ("RegistryValueModified", "RegistryValueSet", "RegistryValueUpdated", "RegistryValueCreated") | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCreationTime, InitiatingProcessId | sort by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
29.78s
0.0015
grok-3-beta
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains 'Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor' | where RegistryValueName == 'AutoRun' | where ActionType == 'RegistryValueSet' | project Timestamp, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessAccountName | order by Timestamp desc
Correct
1
9.81s
0.0216
grok-3-mini-beta
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryValueName == 'AutoRun' | where RegistryKey contains 'Command Processor' | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
10.22s
0.0017
o1-high
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where ActionType =~ "RegistryValueSet" or ActionType =~ "RegistryValueModified" | where RegistryKey has "\\Microsoft\\Command Processor" // searching for both HKLM and HKCU possible paths | where RegistryValueName =~ "AutoRun" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, RegistryKey, RegistryValueData | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
20.65s
0.1824
o1-low
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has "\\Command Processor" | where RegistryValueName =~ "AutoRun" | where ActionType in ("RegistryValueSet", "RegistryValueCreated", "RegistryValueModified") | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ActionType, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
19.12s
0.1496
o3-high
notepad.exe
// Investigate CommandProcessor → AutoRun persistence modifications let cmdProcessorKeySuffixes = dynamic([ "\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Command Processor", "\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Command Processor" ]); DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey has "Command Processor" // quick pre-filter | where RegistryKey has_any(cmdProcessorKeySuffixes) // precise match for both 32/64-bit views | where RegistryValueName =~ "AutoRun" // the persistence value | where ActionType in ("RegistryValueSet", "RegistryValueCreated", "RegistryValueModified", "RegistryKeyCreated") | extend AutoRunCommand = tostring(RegistryValueData) | where isnotempty(AutoRunCommand) | extend RegistryHive = extract("^(HKLM|HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE|HKCU|HKEY_CURRENT_USER)", 1, RegistryKey) | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryHive, RegistryKey, RegistryValueName, AutoRunCommand, ActionType, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc
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3
113.32s
0.0600
o3-mini-high
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryKey contains "Command Processor" and RegistryValueName == "AutoRun" | where isnotempty(RegistryValueData) | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, RegistryValueData, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ActionType | sort by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
10.41s
0.0075
o3-mini-low
notepad.exe
DeviceRegistryEvents | where RegistryValueName =~ "AutoRun" | where RegistryKey contains "Command Processor" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, RegistryKey, RegistryValueData, ActionType | order by TimeGenerated desc
Correct
1
9.61s
0.0081
o4-mini-high
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0585
o4-mini-low
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0422