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On a Linux host, an activity was recorded where the local clock and timezone were queried. Review the available process execution logs to uncover what full command was run to fetch the system time and timezone.
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Question ID
9/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
56%
Success Rate
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName in ("date", "timedatectl")
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | Correct | 2 | 20.44s | 0.0104 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0114 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == 'ProcessCreated'
| where ProcessCommandLine has 'date' or ProcessCommandLine has 'timedatectl' or ProcessCommandLine has 'hwclock'
| where (FolderPath contains '/bin' or FolderPath contains '/usr')
| distinct DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessParentFileName
| limit 100 | Correct | 4 | 32.73s | 0.2446 |
| gpt-4.1 | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ('date', 'timedatectl', 'hwclock', 'cat')
and (ProcessCommandLine has_any ('timedatectl', 'date', 'hwclock', '/etc/timezone', '/etc/localtime'))
// If possible, join to DeviceInfo to further restrict to Linux
//| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform =~ 'Linux') on DeviceId
| extend CmdLower = tolower(ProcessCommandLine)
| where CmdLower has_any ('timedatectl', 'date', 'hwclock', 'cat /etc/timezone', 'cat /etc/localtime')
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc
| summarize arg_min(TimeGenerated, *) by ProcessCommandLine, DeviceId
| take 100 | Correct | 3 | 13.83s | 0.0343 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | bash /root/AtomicRedTeam/atomics/T1059.004/src/LinEnum.sh | // Collect observed process execution events related to time and timezone information being queried on the host
let processEvents = DeviceProcessEvents | where ProcessCommandLine contains "date" or ProcessCommandLine contains "timedatectl";
// Output collected process execution events
processEvents | extend ProvidesTimeInfo = true
| project AccountName, AccountDomain, DeviceName, Timestamp, FileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProvidesTimeInfo, ProcessCommandLine
// Return up to the first 1 record from the filtered results
| limit 1
| Incorrect | 1 | 12.22s | 0.0129 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)\b(date|timedatectl|hwclock|cat\s+/etc/timezone)\b"
| project DeviceName, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc | Correct | 1 | 6.81s | 0.0039 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0015 |
| gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0530 |
| grok-3-beta | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('date', 'timedatectl', 'hwclock', 'timezone')
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform contains 'Linux'
) on DeviceId
| project DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc
| top 50 by ProcessCreationTime desc | Correct | 3 | 28.06s | 0.0685 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0079 |
| o1-high | date+"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where DeviceId in (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId
)
| where FileName in~ ("date","timedatectl","hwclock")
or ProcessCommandLine has_any ("date","timedatectl","hwclock","/etc/timezone","/etc/localtime","tz")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FolderPath, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 62.43s | 0.5509 |
| o1-low | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| join kind=leftsemi (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| project DeviceId
) on DeviceId
| where FileName in~ ("date", "timedatectl") or ProcessCommandLine has_any ("date", "timedatectl", "time", "timezone", "tz")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 44.16s | 0.5257 |
| o3-mini-high | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "date" or ProcessCommandLine has "timedatectl"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 17.21s | 0.0193 |
| o3-mini-low | date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_cs "date" or ProcessCommandLine has_cs "timedatectl"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, FolderPath, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 23.99s | 0.0242 |
| o4-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0403 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0371 |