// question

On a Linux device, a file was silently removed from the /tmp/victim-files directory. Search through file event or syslog records to identify the exact file name that was deleted.

Reference KQL answer and model-by-model comparison.

562d737f-2fc6-4b09-8c2a-7f8ff0828480
question id
3/23
models correct
1
valid answer
13%
success rate
// reference answer

Human-validated correct answer for this question.

T1070.004-test.txt
// model comparison
ModelAnswerKQL queryStatusTriesTimeCost
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0254
gpt-35-turbo
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0109
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.2237
gpt-4.1
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0414
gpt-4.1-finetuned
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0642
gpt-4.1-mini
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0071
gpt-4.1-nano
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0013
gpt-4o
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0505
gpt-5-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.2500
gpt-5-mini-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0195
gpt-5-mini-low
T1070.004-test.txt
let targetFolder = "/tmp/victim-files";
union DeviceFileEvents, DeviceEvents, DeviceProcessEvents
| extend AF = tostring(AdditionalFields),
         PC = tostring(ProcessCommandLine),
         IPC = tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine),
         FN = tostring(FileName),
         FP = tostring(FolderPath),
         AT = tolower(tostring(ActionType))
// Narrow to records that reference the target folder/path anywhere in common text fields
| where FP startswith targetFolder
      or FN startswith strcat(targetFolder, "/")
      or FN contains targetFolder
      or AF contains targetFolder
      or PC contains targetFolder
      or IPC contains targetFolder
// And that include deletion indicators in ActionType, command lines or additional fields
| where AT contains "delete" or AT contains "del" or AT contains "unlink" or AT contains "remove" or AT contains "rm"
      or tolower(AF) contains "unlink" or tolower(AF) contains "rm" or tolower(AF) contains "remove" or tolower(AF) contains "deleted" or tolower(AF) contains "delete"
      or tolower(PC) contains "unlink" or tolower(PC) contains "rm" or tolower(PC) contains "remove" or tolower(PC) contains "deleted" or tolower(PC) contains "delete"
      or tolower(IPC) contains "unlink" or tolower(IPC) contains "rm" or tolower(IPC) contains "remove" or tolower(IPC) contains "deleted" or tolower(IPC) contains "delete"
// Normalize a FullPath for easier grouping
| extend FullPath = case(
        FN contains "/", FN,
        isnull(FP) or FP == "", FN,
        FP endswith "/", strcat(FP, FN), strcat(FP, "/", FN)
    )
// Return the most recent evidence per file path + device
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by tostring(FullPath), DeviceId
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DeviceId, FullPath, FileName = FN, FileSize, ActionType = AT, SourceType = Type, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine = IPC, ProcessCommandLine = PC, AdditionalFields = AF
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| take 200
pass578.12s0.0203
gpt-5-mini-medium
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0234
gpt-5-nano-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0074
gpt-5-nano-medium
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0068
grok-3-beta
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0842
grok-3-mini-beta
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0071
o1-high
T1070.004-test.txt
let LinuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
LinuxDevices
| join kind=inner (
    union isfuzzy=true DeviceFileEvents, DeviceEvents, DeviceProcessEvents
    | where FolderPath has "/tmp/victim-files" or FileName has "/tmp/victim-files" or AdditionalFields has "/tmp/victim-files" or ProcessCommandLine has "/tmp/victim-files"
    | where ActionType in ("FileDeleted", "FileRemove", "FileRemoved", "FileRenamed")
        or AdditionalFields has_any ("delete", "removed", "unlink")
        or (ProcessCommandLine has_any ("rm", "unlink"))
    | project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, FolderPath, FileName, ActionType, AdditionalFields, ProcessCommandLine
) on DeviceId
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FolderPath, FileName, ActionType, AdditionalFields, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
pass373.37s0.6324
o1-low
T1070.004-test.txt
union DeviceFileEvents, DeviceProcessEvents, DeviceEvents
| join kind=inner (
    DeviceInfo
    | where OSPlatform =~ "Linux"
) on DeviceId
| where FolderPath startswith "/tmp/victim-files"
  or AdditionalFields contains "/tmp/victim-files"
  or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "/tmp/victim-files"
| where ActionType in ("FileDeleted", "FileRemoved", "FileDelete")
  or AdditionalFields has_any ("delete", "removed")
  or InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "rm "
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ActionType, FolderPath, FileName, AdditionalFields, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
pass262.68s0.6666
o3-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.1173
o3-mini-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0403
o3-mini-low
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0409
o4-mini-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0496
o4-mini-low
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0425