// 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
| Model | Answer | KQL query | Status | Tries | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0254 |
| gpt-35-turbo | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0109 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2237 |
| gpt-4.1 | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0414 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0642 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0071 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0013 |
| gpt-4o | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0505 |
| gpt-5-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2500 |
| gpt-5-mini-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0195 |
| 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 | pass | 5 | 78.12s | 0.0203 |
| gpt-5-mini-medium | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0234 |
| gpt-5-nano-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0074 |
| gpt-5-nano-medium | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0068 |
| grok-3-beta | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0842 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0071 |
| 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 | pass | 3 | 73.37s | 0.6324 |
| 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 | pass | 2 | 62.68s | 0.6666 |
| o3-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.1173 |
| o3-mini-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0403 |
| o3-mini-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0409 |
| o4-mini-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0496 |
| o4-mini-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0425 |