Question Analysis
On a Windows device, a new inbound firewall rule was created unexpectedly. Review process execution records to identify the command-line utility responsible for adding the rule.
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Question ID
10/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
63%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
netsh
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 | netsh.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FolderPath endswith @"\System32\netsh.exe" or FileName == "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "advfirewall firewall add rule" or ProcessCommandLine contains "New-NetFirewallRule"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "dir=in" or ProcessCommandLine contains "-Direction Inbound"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FileName, InitiatingProcessFileName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountName | Correct | 1 | 9.25s | 0.0041 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0110 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | netsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == 'ProcessCreated'
| where ProcessCommandLine has 'netsh' and ProcessCommandLine has 'advfirewall' and ProcessCommandLine has 'add'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 8.91s | 0.0541 |
| gpt-4.1 | netsh.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("netsh.exe", "powershell.exe", "cmd.exe", "wf.msc")
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("firewall", "add rule", "New-NetFirewallRule")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 6.42s | 0.0128 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0422 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | netsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_cs "netsh" or ProcessCommandLine has_cs "New-NetFirewallRule" or ProcessCommandLine has_cs "advfirewall" or ProcessCommandLine has_cs "firewall"
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime, FileName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 16.31s | 0.0033 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0014 |
| gpt-4o | cmd.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("netsh advfirewall firewall add", "powershell New-NetFirewallRule")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DeviceId, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessId, AccountName, AccountDomain
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Incorrect | 4 | 28.09s | 0.0472 |
| grok-3-beta | netsh.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_cs 'netsh' or ProcessCommandLine has_cs 'firewall' or ProcessCommandLine has_cs 'advfirewall' or ProcessCommandLine has_cs 'rule'
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, ProcessName = FileName, CommandLine = ProcessCommandLine, AccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by Timestamp desc
| limit 50 | Correct | 4 | 32.70s | 0.0873 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | netsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("netsh advfirewall", "New-NetFirewallRule")
| project FileName, ProcessCommandLine, Timestamp
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 1 | 18.56s | 0.0016 |
| o1-high | netsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated >= ago(7d)
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where (
ProcessCommandLine has_any ("netsh advfirewall firewall add rule", "Add-NetFirewallRule", "New-NetFirewallRule")
)
| where (
// Filter further to commands specifying inbound direction
ProcessCommandLine has_any ("dir=in", "-Direction In", "-Direction Inbound")
)
| project TimeGenerated,
DeviceName,
FolderPath,
FileName,
ProcessCommandLine,
AccountName,
InitiatingProcessFileName,
InitiatingProcessCommandLine,
InitiatingProcessFolderPath
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 50 | Correct | 4 | 138.01s | 1.1520 |
| o1-low | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("netsh", "New-NetFirewallRule")
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("add rule", "firewall", "advfirewall") or ProcessCommandLine contains "New-NetFirewallRule"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessId
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Incorrect | 2 | 88.68s | 0.5735 |
| o3-mini-high | netsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where isnotempty(InitiatingProcessCommandLine)
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has 'netsh advfirewall firewall add rule' or InitiatingProcessCommandLine has 'New-NetFirewallRule'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCreationTime
| sort by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 50 | Correct | 1 | 76.05s | 0.0126 |
| o3-mini-low | netsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where (FileName has_cs "netsh.exe" and ProcessCommandLine has_cs "advfirewall")
or (FileName has_cs "powershell.exe" and ProcessCommandLine has_cs "New-NetFirewallRule")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 27.43s | 0.0196 |
| o4-mini-high | netsh | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)(?:netsh\s+advfirewall\s+firewall\s+add\s+rule|New-NetFirewallRule)"
| project TimeGenerated,
DeviceName,
AccountName,
ProcessId,
FileName,
ProcessCommandLine,
InitiatingProcessId,
InitiatingProcessFileName,
InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 3 | 88.66s | 0.0299 |
| o4-mini-low | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
// Restrict to process creation events
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
// Filter for netsh.exe adding firewall rules or PowerShell cmdlets
| where (
InitiatingProcessFileName == "netsh.exe" and ProcessCommandLine has_cs "advfirewall firewall add rule"
)
or (
InitiatingProcessFileName has_cs "powershell.exe" and (
ProcessCommandLine has_cs "New-NetFirewallRule" or
ProcessCommandLine has_cs "Set-NetFirewallRule"
)
)
// Project relevant fields for analysis
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName,
InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessId, InitiatingProcessId, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated asc | Incorrect | 2 | 65.12s | 0.0188 |