Question Analysis
On a Linux system, find any process creation record where awk is used with a BEGIN rule to launch a shell. What was the exact command invoked?
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Question ID
12/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
75%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}’
Model Performance Comparison
See how different AI models performed on this question
| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "awk"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "BEGIN"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "system("
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "sh" or ProcessCommandLine contains "bash"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 11.19s | 0.0056 |
| gpt-35-turbo | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")'} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "awk" and ProcessCommandLine contains "BEGIN"
| project ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 3.77s | 0.0029 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == 'ProcessCreated'
| where (InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains 'awk' and InitiatingProcessCommandLine has 'BEGIN')
| where (InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains '/bin/bash' or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains '/bin/sh')
| extend shellCommand = case(InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains '/bin/bash', '/bin/bash', InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains '/bin/sh', '/bin/sh', '')
| project DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, TimeGenerated, shellCommand
| where shellCommand != '' | Correct | 4 | 47.11s | 0.2198 |
| gpt-4.1 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0449 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0324 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0062 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0011 |
| gpt-4o | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "awk" and InitiatingProcessCommandLine matches regex @"BEGIN.*sh"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DeviceId, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 3.50s | 0.0149 |
| grok-3-beta | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName contains 'awk'
| where ProcessCommandLine has 'BEGIN' and ProcessCommandLine has_any ('sh', 'bash', 'shell')
| project DeviceName, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessCommandLine, FileName, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc | Correct | 1 | 10.02s | 0.0215 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux" | project DeviceId, OSPlatform) on DeviceId
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "awk" and ProcessCommandLine contains "BEGIN" and (ProcessCommandLine contains "system" and ProcessCommandLine contains "/bin/sh")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 16.10s | 0.0018 |
| o1-high | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform =~ "Linux"
) on DeviceId
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName endswith "awk" // or FileName has "awk" if you suspect a path
| where ProcessCommandLine has_all ("BEGIN", "system(")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 4 | 112.13s | 0.6877 |
| o1-low | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| join kind=innerunique (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
) on DeviceId
| where FileName == "awk" or ProcessCommandLine has "awk"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "BEGIN"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("sh", "bash")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 37.12s | 0.2594 |
| o3-mini-high | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "awk" and ProcessCommandLine contains "BEGIN"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "/bin/sh" or ProcessCommandLine contains "sh -"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessId
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 22.84s | 0.0114 |
| o3-mini-low | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "awk"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "BEGIN"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("/bin/sh", "/bin/bash")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 2 | 24.88s | 0.0180 |
| o4-mini-high | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | let linuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
DeviceProcessEvents
| where DeviceId in (linuxDevices)
// Filter to awk executions
| where FileName =~ "awk" or FileName endswith "awk"
// Look for BEGIN block invoking a shell via system(...)
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"\bawk\b.*\bBEGIN\s*\{[^}]*system\s*\("
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 3 | 84.57s | 0.0258 |
| o4-mini-low | awk 'BEGIN {system("/bin/sh &")}' | let linuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
DeviceProcessEvents
| where DeviceId in (linuxDevices)
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "awk"
// look for BEGIN rule and system call launching a shell
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "begin" and tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "system(\"/bin/sh"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 38.81s | 0.0102 |