Question Analysis
On a Windows host, investigate process events to find when Task Manager was launched via cmd with an unusual flag. What was the full command executed?
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Question ID
8/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
50%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
taskmgr.exe /7
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 | "cmd.exe" /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName =~ "taskmgr.exe"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 9.17s | 0.0047 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0109 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | "cmd.exe" /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == 'Taskmgr.exe' and InitiatingProcessFileName == 'cmd.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine !contains '/s'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 9.59s | 0.0504 |
| gpt-4.1 | "cmd.exe" /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "taskmgr.exe"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any("/", "-") and not(ProcessCommandLine has_any("/1", "/2", "/3", "/4", "/5", "/6"))
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName | Correct | 1 | 6.24s | 0.0115 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | cmd.exe /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("cmd.exe", "/")
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "taskmgr"
| extend weird_flag = iff(ProcessCommandLine has "@echo off", "false", "true")
| summarize by AccountName, AccountSid, DeviceId, DeviceName, InitCmd = InitiatingProcessCommandLine, Cmd = ProcessCommandLine, weird_flag
| order by Cmd asc nulls last | Correct | 3 | 30.70s | 0.0263 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0075 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0016 |
| gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0474 |
| grok-3-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0885 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | "cmd.exe" /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ 'taskmgr.exe'
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ 'cmd.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine contains ' '
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 26.78s | 0.0029 |
| o1-high | cmd.exe /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
| where FileName =~ "taskmgr.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "/"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 49.13s | 0.3068 |
| o1-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.8350 |
| o3-mini-high | cmd.exe /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "taskmgr.exe"
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "cmd.exe"
// Optionally, if you know part of the unusual flag pattern, you can add a further filter like:
// | where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "-unusualFlag"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessId
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 26.13s | 0.0158 |
| o3-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0492 |
| o4-mini-high | "cmd.exe" /c taskmgr.exe /7 | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where tolower(FileName) endswith "cmd.exe"
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "taskmgr.exe"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 3 | 107.75s | 0.0299 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0373 |