Question Analysis
On a Windows system, someone ran PowerShell to copy a file from a remote machine’s C$ share to the local TEMP folder. Using process event logs, what full PowerShell command was executed to perform this action?
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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
copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | "powershell.exe" & {copy-item -Path \"\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password\" -Destination \"$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password\"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "\\"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "TEMP"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 7.31s | 0.0039 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0114 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | 'powershell.exe' & {copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName == 'powershell.exe'
| where ProcessCommandLine has 'copy' or ProcessCommandLine has 'cp'
| where ProcessCommandLine has '\\c$' and ProcessCommandLine has 'TEMP'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 14.91s | 0.0565 |
| gpt-4.1 | "powershell.exe" & {copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where tolower(FileName) in ("powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe")
| where ProcessCommandLine has "C$" and ProcessCommandLine has "\\" and ProcessCommandLine has "$"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "temp" or ProcessCommandLine contains "%temp%" or ProcessCommandLine contains "appdata\\local\\temp"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 3 | 13.67s | 0.0356 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | "powershell.exe" & {Remove-Item -Path \"\"\\127.0.0.1\\C$\\Windows\\temp\\Easter_Bunny.password\"\"\nRemove-Item -Path \"\"$Env:TEMP\\Easter_egg.password\"\"} | let tempPath = "\\TEMP\\";
let cshare = "$";
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has tempPath and ProcessCommandLine has cshare
| summarize count(), make_list(ProcessCommandLine)
| order by count_ desc
| extend Full_PowerShell_Command = list_ProcessCommandLine[0]
| project-away count_, list_ProcessCommandLine | Incorrect | 1 | 10.88s | 0.0116 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | powershell.exe & {copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where tolower(FileName) == "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "\\" and ProcessCommandLine has "C$"
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "temp"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 10 | Correct | 3 | 26.07s | 0.0059 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | copy-item | DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName has_any ('powershell', 'PowerShell') | where ProcessCommandLine contains 'copy' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'xcopy' | where ProcessCommandLine contains 'C$' and ProcessCommandLine contains 'TEMP' | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 1.92s | 0.0005 |
| gpt-4o | powershell.exe & {copy-item -Path \\\\127.0.0.1\\C$\\Windows\\temp\\Easter_Bunny.password -Destination \$Env:TEMP\\Easter_egg.password} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName contains "powershell" and ProcessCommandLine contains "copy" and ProcessCommandLine contains "C$" and ProcessCommandLine contains "TEMP"
| project ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 4.13s | 0.0152 |
| grok-3-beta | powershell.exe & {copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName contains "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "C$" and ProcessCommandLine contains "temp"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 1 | 14.68s | 0.0239 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0071 |
| o1-high | powershell.exe & {copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("Copy-Item", "copy")
| where ProcessCommandLine has "C$" and ProcessCommandLine has "temp"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 45.79s | 0.2705 |
| o1-low | powershell.exe&{copy-item-Path"\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password"-Destination"$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType =~ "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe" or FileName =~ "pwsh.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "C$" and ProcessCommandLine has "temp" and ProcessCommandLine has_any ("copy", "cp", "xcopy")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine, FolderPath, FileName, SHA256, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Incorrect | 1 | 64.34s | 0.3868 |
| o3-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0425 |
| o3-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0437 |
| o4-mini-high | "powershell.exe" & {copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe")
| where ProcessCommandLine has "Copy-Item"
and ProcessCommandLine contains "\\C$"
and ProcessCommandLine contains "Temp"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| sort by Timestamp desc | Correct | 1 | 40.35s | 0.0149 |
| o4-mini-low | "powershell.exe" & {copy-item -Path "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Windows\temp\Easter_Bunny.password" -Destination "$Env:TEMP\Easter_egg.password"} | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
// Only look at PowerShell processes
| where FileName has "powershell" or ProcessCommandLine has "powershell"
// Filter for UNC path pointing to a C$ share and local TEMP folder
| where ProcessCommandLine has "\\"
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "c$"
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "temp"
// Select relevant fields
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
// Order by most recent
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 82.32s | 0.0248 |