Question Analysis
On the Windows device, a security check was run to detect debugger processes via PowerShell. Which tool (process) carried out this check?
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Question ID
7/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
44%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
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powershell
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("Get-Process", "debugger", "windbg", "ollydbg", "x64dbg", "ida", "process") // Added "process" as a more general term
| distinct InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| project InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 11.29s | 0.0054 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0109 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2275 |
| gpt-4.1 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0374 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0408 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName has "powershell"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("debugger", "debug", "attach")
| project DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, TimeGenerated
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 3.29s | 0.0022 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0012 |
| gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0646 |
| grok-3-beta | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated > ago(7d)
| where InitiatingProcessFileName contains 'powershell'
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'debugger'
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 1 | 7.93s | 0.0209 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName
| order by Timestamp desc
| take 10 | Correct | 1 | 15.21s | 0.0020 |
| o1-high | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("debugger", "Get-Process", "windbg", "debug")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, DeviceId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFolderPath, InitiatingProcessVersionInfoCompanyName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 31.49s | 0.2572 |
| o1-low | CreateProcessWithPipe.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("powershell.exe", "powershell_ise.exe", "pwsh.exe")
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("debug", "debugger")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Incorrect | 1 | 36.85s | 0.2815 |
| o3-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0479 |
| o3-mini-low | powershell.exe | union withsource=EventSource DeviceProcessEvents, DeviceEvents
| where FileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| extend PS_CmdLine = tolower(tostring(ProcessCommandLine)), Init_CmdLine = tolower(tostring(InitiatingProcessCommandLine))
// Look for mentions of debug in either the PowerShell process or its initiator's command line
| where PS_CmdLine contains "debug" or Init_CmdLine contains "debug"
// Summarize by the initiating process name, which is the tool that launched PowerShell
| summarize EventCount = count() by InitiatingProcessFileName, EventSource
| order by EventCount desc | Correct | 4 | 53.57s | 0.0408 |
| o4-mini-high | powershell.exe | // 1) Find PowerShell instances invoking debugger checks
let psDebugChecks = DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == "powershell.exe"
// look for debugger‐related keywords in the PS command line
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("Debugger", "-Debug", "Test-ProcessDebugger")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, PsProcessId = ProcessId, ParentProcessId = InitiatingProcessParentId, PsCommandLine = ProcessCommandLine;
// 2) Lookup parent process details
let parentInfo = DeviceProcessEvents
| project ParentProcessId = ProcessId, ParentFileName = FileName, ParentCommandLine = ProcessCommandLine;
// 3) Join and summarize unique parent tools
psDebugChecks
| join kind=leftouter parentInfo on ParentProcessId
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ParentFileName, ParentCommandLine, PsCommandLine
| distinct ParentFileName, ParentCommandLine
| order by ParentFileName | Correct | 1 | 52.49s | 0.0161 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0445 |