Question Analysis
On a Windows device, there’s evidence that PowerShell history was wiped by deleting the history file. What was the exact command used to perform this action?
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Question ID
5/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
31%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
Remove-Item (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath
Model Performance Comparison
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| 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 | 0.0202 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0110 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2417 |
| gpt-4.1 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0465 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0250 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | Remove-Item (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName contains "powershell" or InitiatingProcessFileName contains "powershell"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "Remove-Item" or ProcessCommandLine contains "del" or ProcessCommandLine contains "rm" or ProcessCommandLine contains "RemoveItem"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains ".ps1_history" or ProcessCommandLine contains "ConsoleHost_history.txt" or ProcessCommandLine contains "history"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 3.43s | 0.0022 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0016 |
| gpt-4o | Remove-Item (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('Remove-Item', 'PowerShell_history.txt') | Correct | 1 | 22.86s | 0.0618 |
| grok-3-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0974 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | Remove-Item (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName has 'powershell.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine has 'Remove-Item'
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('history.txt', 'ConsoleHost_history.txt', 'PowerShell')
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 4 | 44.16s | 0.0062 |
| o1-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.6903 |
| o1-low | powershell.exe & {Remove-Item (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where (
(ProcessCommandLine contains "history" and (ProcessCommandLine contains "del" or ProcessCommandLine contains "remove-item" or ProcessCommandLine contains "rm" or ProcessCommandLine contains "erase" or ProcessCommandLine contains "System.IO.File"))
or (InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "history" and (InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "del" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "remove-item" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "rm" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "erase" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "System.IO.File"))
or (ProcessCommandLine has_any ("ConsoleHost_history","PSReadLineHistory") and ProcessCommandLine has_any ("del","remove-item","rm","erase"))
or (InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("ConsoleHost_history","PSReadLineHistory") and InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("del","remove-item","rm","erase"))
)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 3 | 92.42s | 0.6712 |
| o3-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0403 |
| o3-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0430 |
| o4-mini-high | "powershell.exe" & {Remove-Item (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath} | // 1) Find explicit file-deletion events for the PSReadLine history file
let FileDeletes = DeviceFileEvents
| where ActionType == "FileDeleted"
| where FileName endswith "ConsoleHost_history.txt"
| where FolderPath contains "PSReadLine"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName in ("powershell.exe","pwsh.exe")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, Account = InitiatingProcessAccountName, Command = InitiatingProcessCommandLine;
// 2) Find PowerShell process executions that reference the history file with delete/clear cmdlets
let ProcessDeletes = DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in ("powershell.exe","pwsh.exe")
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)\b(remove-?item|del|erase|rm|clear-?content)\b"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "HistorySavePath" or ProcessCommandLine contains "ConsoleHost_history"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, Account = AccountName, Command = ProcessCommandLine;
// Combine, dedupe, and sort to get the exact command used to wipe the history
union FileDeletes, ProcessDeletes
| sort by TimeGenerated asc
| distinct TimeGenerated, DeviceName, Account, Command
| project Timestamp = TimeGenerated, DeviceName, Account, Command | Correct | 5 | 157.45s | 0.0562 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0403 |