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On a Linux system, review process execution records for any shell process that set an environment variable containing executable code and then piped it into another shell instance. Determine which environment variable name was used to store the script content.

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Question ID
4/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
25%
Success Rate
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ModelAnswerKQL QueryStatusAttemptsTimeCost
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
ART
DeviceProcessEvents | where ActionType == "ProcessCreated" | join kind=inner DeviceInfo on DeviceId | where OSPlatform == "Linux" | where ProcessCommandLine contains "=" and ProcessCommandLine contains "|" | extend parts = split(ProcessCommandLine, '|') | extend commandBeforeFirstPipe = tostring(parts[0]) | extend commandAfterFirstPipe = tostring(parts[1]) | where commandAfterFirstPipe matches regex @"^\s*(?:/bin/)?(?:bash|sh|zsh|ksh|csh)" // Ensure the command after the pipe starts with a shell | extend potentialVariableMatches = extract_all(@'([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)=' , commandBeforeFirstPipe) | where array_length(potentialVariableMatches) > 0 | mv-expand potentialVariableMatches // Each element of potentialVariableMatches is an array like ["VariableName"] | project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, AssignedVariable = tostring(potentialVariableMatches[0]) // Access the first element of the inner array
Correct
5
87.70s
0.0474
gpt-35-turbo
PortNumber
DeviceProcessEvents | where ProcessCommandLine has 'set' and ProcessCommandLine has '|' | extend ExtractedCommand = extract(@'(?i)set (?<VariableName>[^= ]*)=.*\|', 1, ProcessCommandLine) | project ProcessId, ProcessCommandLine, ExtractedCommand
Incorrect
4
11.44s
0.0095
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
ENCODED
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName in ('bash', 'sh', 'zsh', 'csh', 'ksh', 'dash', 'tcsh') | where ProcessCommandLine contains '=' and ProcessCommandLine contains '|' | extend EnvVar = extract_all('(\\w+)=', ProcessCommandLine) | mv-expand EnvVar to typeof(string) | summarize Count = count() by tostring(EnvVar) | order by Count desc
Correct
4
35.85s
0.2072
gpt-4.1
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0461
gpt-4.1-finetuned
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0633
gpt-4.1-mini
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0122
gpt-4.1-nano
ART
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName in ('bash', 'sh') or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains 'bash' or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains 'sh' | where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains 'export ' or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains 'environment=' | extend envVarNames = extract_all(@'\$(\w+)', InitiatingProcessCommandLine) | mv-expand envVarNames | where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains '|' and (InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains 'bash' or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains 'sh') | project timestamp=InitiatingProcessCreationTime, ProcessId, FileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, envVarNames | summarize count() by tostring(envVarNames), bin(timestamp, 1h)
Correct
3
7.25s
0.0014
gpt-4o
ART
let shell_processes = DeviceProcessEvents | where InitiatingProcessFileName in~ ("sh", "bash", "dash", "zsh", "ksh") or FileName in~ ("sh", "bash", "dash", "zsh", "ksh"); shell_processes | where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "export" and InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "|" | extend EnvVariableName = extract(@"export\s+(\w+)=", 1, InitiatingProcessCommandLine) | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, EnvVariableName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
Correct
2
32.07s
0.0263
grok-3-beta
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.1359
grok-3-mini-beta
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0078
o1-high
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.8144
o1-low
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.8969
o3-mini-high
env_var
DeviceProcessEvents | where ProcessCommandLine has "export" and ProcessCommandLine has "|" | where FileName has_any ("bash", "sh", "zsh", "ksh") | extend env_var = extract(@"export\s+([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)=", 1, ProcessCommandLine) | where isnotempty(env_var) | summarize count() by env_var, ProcessCommandLine | project env_var
Incorrect
1
15.11s
0.0110
o3-mini-low
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0602
o4-mini-high
EnvVariable
DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName in ("bash", "sh", "zsh", "dash") | where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?<varName>[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)=.*\|\s*(bash|sh|zsh|dash)" | extend EnvVariable = extract(@"([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)=", 1, ProcessCommandLine) | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, EnvVariable, ProcessCommandLine | distinct EnvVariable
Incorrect
1
29.70s
0.0112
o4-mini-low
No answer provided
No query generated
Incorrect
5
0.00s
0.0359