// question

On a Linux host, a command was run to list all processes and filter for common security or monitoring agents. Review the process logs and identify which agent name was actually observed.

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1
valid answer
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// reference answer

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auditbeat
// model comparison
ModelAnswerKQL queryStatusTriesTimeCost
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
auditd
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux") on DeviceId
| where FileName has_any ('auditd', 'ossec-agentd', 'splunkd', 'mdatp', 'falcon-sensor', 'elastic-agent', 'syslog-ng', 'rsyslogd', 'zabbix_agentd', 'datadog-agent') or ProcessCommandLine has_any ('auditd', 'ossec-agentd', 'splunkd', 'mdatp', 'falcon-sensor', 'elastic-agent', 'syslog-ng', 'rsyslogd', 'zabbix_agentd', 'datadog-agent')
| summarize count() by FileName
fail231.70s0.0159
gpt-35-turbo
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0108
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
None
DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ 'ps' and (ProcessCommandLine contains 'aux' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'ejvx')
| summarize AgentNames = make_set(ProcessVersionInfoProductName) by DeviceName, DeviceId
| project DeviceName, DeviceId, AgentNames
fail215.03s0.0979
gpt-4.1
auditd
DeviceProcessEvents
// Filter for common agent process names in FileName or ProcessCommandLine
| where FileName matches regex @"(?i)(falcon|crowdstrike|sentinelone|sentinelctl|sophos|savd|mcafee|isecespd|trend|cb|carbonblack|osquery|elastic|auditd|sysmon|qualys|defendpoint|edr|clamd|defender|detection|dome|secureworks|panda|bitdefender|eset|avast|avg|comodo|f-secure|kaspersky|malwarebytes|rapid7|fireeye|forti|fidelis|huntress|tanium|sumologic|logrhythm|zeek|suricata|sysdig|wazuh|ossec)" 
   or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)(falcon|crowdstrike|sentinelone|sentinelctl|sophos|savd|mcafee|isecespd|trend|cb|carbonblack|osquery|elastic|auditd|sysmon|qualys|defendpoint|edr|clamd|defender|detection|dome|secureworks|panda|bitdefender|eset|avast|avg|comodo|f-secure|kaspersky|malwarebytes|rapid7|fireeye|forti|fidelis|huntress|tanium|sumologic|logrhythm|zeek|suricata|sysdig|wazuh|ossec)"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| summarize AgentsObserved = make_set(FileName), SampleCommands = make_set(ProcessCommandLine,10), Count=count()
fail212.00s0.0213
gpt-4.1-finetuned
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0335
gpt-4.1-mini
auditd
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine containscs "osquery" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "falco" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "sysmon" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "sysdig" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "auditd" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "tripwire" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "clamav" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "loganalyzer" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "auditbeat" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "filebeat" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "packetbeat" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "suricata" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "ossec" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "wazuh" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "zeek" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "snort" 
| summarize AgentsObserved = make_set(ProcessCommandLine)
| project AgentsObserved
fail15.06s0.0026
gpt-4.1-nano
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0018
gpt-4o
mdatp
DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux") on DeviceId
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "agent" or ProcessCommandLine contains "security" or ProcessCommandLine contains "monitor"
| summarize FirstObserved=min(ProcessCreationTime), LastObserved=max(ProcessCreationTime), Count=count() by InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessAccountName, DeviceName
| order by LastObserved desc
fail311.29s0.1983
gpt-5-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.3064
gpt-5-mini-high
falco
let agentsRegex = @"(splunk|ossec|wazuh|osquery|falco|auditbeat|filebeat|winlogbeat|metricbeat|packetbeat|collectd|datadog|newrelic|sensu|sumologic|sumo|crowdstrike|carbonblack|tanium|qualys|mcafee|symantec|trendmicro|opswat|sentinel|azuremonitor|azuremonitoragent|microsoft)";
union DeviceProcessEvents, DeviceEvents
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
// look for common 'ps ... | grep/egrep/pgrep/awk' patterns used to enumerate processes on Linux
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "ps" and (
      tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "grep"
      or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "egrep"
      or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "pgrep"
      or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "awk"
      )
| extend cmd = tolower(ProcessCommandLine)
| extend matchedAgent = extract(agentsRegex, 1, cmd)
| where isnotempty(matchedAgent)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, matchedAgent
| summarize Count = count(), SampleTime = min(TimeGenerated), DeviceNames = make_set(DeviceName, 10), SampleCommands = make_set(ProcessCommandLine, 5) by Agent = matchedAgent
| order by Count desc
fail125.81s0.0063
gpt-5-mini-low
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0130
gpt-5-mini-medium
osquery
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("ps -ef", "ps aux", "ps -Ao", "ps -e", "ps -A")
// commands that indicate piping to grep/egrep/awk to filter agent names
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("grep", "egrep", "fgrep", "awk", "sed")
| extend cmd=tolower(ProcessCommandLine)
| extend matchedAgent=
    case(
        cmd contains "osquery" or cmd contains "osqueryd", "osquery",
        cmd contains "falcon" or cmd contains "crowdstrike" or cmd contains "falcon-sensor", "crowdstrike/falcon",
        cmd contains "datadog" or cmd contains "datadog-agent" or cmd contains "agent/datadog", "datadog",
        cmd contains "splunk" or cmd contains "splunkd" or cmd contains "splunkforwarder" , "splunk",
        cmd contains "azure" and cmd contains "monitor" or cmd contains "azuremonitoragent" or cmd contains "ama" , "azure-monitor/ama",
        cmd contains "sysmon" or cmd contains "sysmon-agent", "sysmon",
        cmd contains "elastic" or cmd contains "elastic-agent" or cmd contains "filebeat" or cmd contains "metricbeat", "elastic",
        cmd contains "google" and cmd contains "fluentd" or cmd contains "google-fluentd", "google-fluentd",
        cmd contains "telegraf" or cmd contains "influx" or cmd contains "tealium", "telegraf",
        cmd contains "amagent" or cmd contains "aagent" or cmd contains "amsagent" or cmd contains "azuremonitor" , "ama/aagent",
        cmd contains "datadog" or cmd contains "dd-agent", "datadog",
        cmd contains "qualys" or cmd contains "qagent" or cmd contains "qualys-cloud-agent", "qualys",
        cmd contains "vmware" and cmd contains "tools" , "vmware-tools",
        cmd contains "tanium" or cmd contains "taniumclient" or cmd contains "tanium-agent", "tanium",
        cmd contains "carbonblack" or cmd contains "cb" or cmd contains "cbsys" or cmd contains "cb-agent", "carbonblack",
        cmd contains "mcafee" or cmd contains "epcsvc" or cmd contains "mfe" , "mcafee",
        cmd contains "clamav" or cmd contains "clamd" , "clamav",
        cmd contains "agent" , "other-agent",
        "unknown"
    )
| where matchedAgent != "unknown"
| summarize Count = count(), SampleTime=min(TimeGenerated) by DeviceName, matchedAgent, InitiatingProcessAccountName
| order by Count desc
| project DeviceName, matchedAgent, Count, SampleTime, InitiatingProcessAccountName
| take 50
fail117.05s0.0035
gpt-5-nano-high
falcon and cb
DeviceProcessEvents
| where isnotempty(InitiatingProcessCommandLine) or isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
| extend cmdline = coalesce(InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine)
| extend cmd_lower = tolower(cmdline)
| where cmd_lower contains "ps" and cmd_lower contains "grep"
| mv-expand agent = dynamic(["crowdstrike","falcon","sentinelone","carbonblack","cb","symantec","mcafee","sophos","trendmicro","defender","bitdefender","cybereason","fireeye","kaspersky","malwarebytes","eset","clamav","avast","avira"])
| where cmd_lower contains agent
| summarize ObservedAgents = makeset(agent), TotalMatches = count()
fail3107.21s0.0066
gpt-5-nano-medium
monit
let AgentCandidates = dynamic(["osqueryd","ossec-agent","falcon-sensor","crowdstrike","splunkd","zabbix_agentd","auditd","clamd","clamav","monit"]);
DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(1d)
| extend CmdLine = strcat(InitiatingProcessCommandLine, " ", ProcessCommandLine)
| mv-expand Candidate = AgentCandidates
| extend CandidateStr = tostring(Candidate)
| where CmdLine contains CandidateStr
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine) by DeviceName, CandidateStr
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ObservedAgent = CandidateStr, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
fail4131.36s0.0070
grok-3-beta
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.1259
grok-3-mini-beta
systemctl
DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated between (datetime(2023-01-01) .. now())  // Timerange will be replaced externally
| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux" | project DeviceId, DeviceName) on DeviceId
| where FileName has_any ("defender", "crowdstrike", "sophos", "agent") or ProcessCommandLine has_any ("defender", "crowdstrike", "sophos", "agent")
| distinct FileName, DeviceName
| project DeviceName, ObservedAgent=FileName
| sort by DeviceName asc
fail337.48s0.0045
o1-high
None
let LinuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId, DeviceName;

DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where DeviceId in (LinuxDevices)
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("ps aux", "ps -ef")
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "grep"
| extend ObservedAgent = extract(@"grep\s+(\S+)", 1, ProcessCommandLine)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, ObservedAgent
| order by TimeGenerated desc
fail3101.06s0.7469
o1-low
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s1.0598
o3-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.1090
o3-mini-high
auditd
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("osquery", "wazuh", "auditd", "sysdig", "falco", "tripwire", "clamav", "chkrootkit", "rkhunter", "snort", "suricata", "ossec")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
fail121.96s0.0165
o3-mini-low
telegraf
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "ps" and ProcessCommandLine has "grep"
| extend AgentName = extract(@"grep\s+(\S+)", 1, ProcessCommandLine)
| summarize Count = count() by AgentName
| order by Count desc
fail151.45s0.0196
o4-mini-high
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0542
o4-mini-low
no answer
no query generatedfail50.00s0.0473