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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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Question ID
14/23
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1
Valid Answer
61%
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Reference Answer
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notepad.exe
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Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
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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 | Correct | 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 | Correct | 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 |