Question Analysis
On a Linux system, logs show that the password expiration settings file was accessed. Identify which command was executed to list its contents.
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Question ID
7/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
44%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
cat /etc/login.defs
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 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0173 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0109 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2236 |
| gpt-4.1 | cat /etc/login.defs | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "/etc/login.defs"
| where FileName in ("cat", "less", "more", "head", "tail", "grep", "awk", "sed", "view", "vi", "nano")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 4 | 18.60s | 0.0368 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | bash -c "cat /etc/login.defs" | let suspect_processes = dynamic(["cat", "less", "more", "strings", "od", "tail", "head", "base64"]);
DeviceProcessEvents
| where FolderPath has_any (suspect_processes)
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("/etc/login.defs", "/usr/bin/chage -l", "/sbin/chage -l")
| where ProcessCommandLine !has "/bin/bash"
| extend ArgumentMatch = iff(FolderPath !in ("cat", "less", "more", "strings", "od", "tail", "head"),"[not shell org]", "")
| extend ArgumentMatch = iff(isempty(ArgumentMatch), extract(@'(\\s+)? /etc/login\\.defs(\\s+|-|$)', 0, ProcessCommandLine), ArgumentMatch)
| extend ArgumentMatch = iff(isempty(ArgumentMatch), extract(@'(cat|less|more|od|tail|head|strings|base64) (/etc/login\\.defs)?(\\s+|-|$)', 0, ProcessCommandLine), ArgumentMatch)
| extend ArgumentMatch = iff(isempty(ArgumentMatch), extract(@'/usr/bin/chage -l', 0, ProcessCommandLine), ArgumentMatch)
| extend ArgumentMatch = iff(isempty(ArgumentMatch), extract(@'/sbin/chage -l', 0, ProcessCommandLine), ArgumentMatch)
| extend ArgumentMatch = iff(isempty(ArgumentMatch), extract(@'chage -l', 0, ProcessCommandLine), ArgumentMatch)
| where isnotempty(ArgumentMatch)
| order by DeviceName asc, TimeGenerated asc, ProcessCommandLine asc
| extend timestamp = TimeGenerated, HostCustomEntity = DeviceName, AccountCustomEntity = InitiatingProcessAccountName | Correct | 5 | 73.07s | 0.0456 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0081 |
| 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 | 0.0527 |
| grok-3-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0875 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | bash -c "cat /etc/login.defs" | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has '/etc/login.defs'
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == 'Linux'
| project DeviceId, DeviceName
) on DeviceId
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| take 10 | Correct | 5 | 52.76s | 0.0072 |
| o1-high | cat | DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform =~ "Linux"
| project DeviceId
) on DeviceId
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("/etc/login.defs", "/etc/shadow")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FolderPath, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 67.80s | 0.6180 |
| o1-low | cat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp between (startofday(ago(7d))..now())
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
) on DeviceId
| where ProcessCommandLine has "/etc/login.defs"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 50.03s | 0.3705 |
| o3-mini-high | cat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i).*(cat|more|less|head).*login.defs.*"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 16.84s | 0.0115 |
| o3-mini-low | cat | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "/etc/login.defs"
// Optionally, further filter if you expect commands like 'cat', 'less', etc. Uncomment the following line if needed:
// | where ProcessCommandLine has_any("cat", "less", "more", "head", "tail")
| project TimeGenerated, ProcessCommandLine
| distinct ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 2 | 34.21s | 0.0265 |
| o4-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0415 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0357 |