// question
On Windows, an elevated SecEdit.exe process was observed exporting the local security policy. Review the process execution records to identify the name of the text file where the policy was saved.
Reference KQL answer and model-by-model comparison.
510cc97f-56ac-4cd3-a198-d3218c23d889
question id
3/23
models correct
1
valid answer
13%
success rate
// reference answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question.
output_mysecpol.txt
// model comparison
| Model | Answer | KQL query | Status | Tries | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0296 |
| gpt-35-turbo | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0111 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2345 |
| gpt-4.1 | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0545 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0373 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0082 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0019 |
| gpt-4o | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0419 |
| gpt-5-high | output_mysecpol.txt | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where tolower(FileName) == "secedit.exe"
// Must be an export action
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @'(?i)(?:^|\s)[/-]export(?:\s|$)'
// Elevated token (either explicit elevation flag or high/system integrity)
| where ProcessTokenElevation =~ "Elevated" or ProcessIntegrityLevel in~ ("High", "System")
// Extract the policy output path after /cfg (handles quotes and no quotes)
| extend SavedPolicyPath = coalesce(
extract(@'(?i)(?:^|\s)[/-]cfg\s+"([^"]+)"', 1, ProcessCommandLine),
extract(@'(?i)(?:^|\s)[/-]cfg\s+(\S+)', 1, ProcessCommandLine)
)
| extend SavedPolicyFileName = tostring(extract(@'([^\\/:*?"<>|]+)$', 1, SavedPolicyPath))
// Optional: also capture /log file if present
| extend LogFilePath = coalesce(
extract(@'(?i)(?:^|\s)[/-]log\s+"([^"]+)"', 1, ProcessCommandLine),
extract(@'(?i)(?:^|\s)[/-]log\s+(\S+)', 1, ProcessCommandLine)
)
| extend LogFileName = tostring(extract(@'([^\\/:*?"<>|]+)$', 1, LogFilePath))
| where isnotempty(SavedPolicyFileName)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName, ProcessTokenElevation, ProcessIntegrityLevel, ProcessCommandLine, SavedPolicyPath, SavedPolicyFileName, LogFilePath, LogFileName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | pass | 2 | 166.64s | 0.0949 |
| gpt-5-mini-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0209 |
| gpt-5-mini-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0182 |
| gpt-5-mini-medium | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0246 |
| gpt-5-nano-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0104 |
| gpt-5-nano-medium | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0104 |
| grok-3-beta | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0900 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0075 |
| o1-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.7866 |
| o1-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.7574 |
| o3-high | output_mysecpol.txt | // 1. Filter for SecEdit executions
// 2. Keep only runs that performed an export of the Local Security Policy
// 3. Make sure the process was running elevated (token elevation or high integrity)
// 4. Parse the value that follows the “/cfg” switch – this is the path where the policy is written
// 5. Split the path to obtain the file name only
// 6. Summarise so we get a single (latest) record per device / user / output file
DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "secedit.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("/export", " /export", "/EXPORT")
| where ProcessTokenElevation =~ "Elevated" or ProcessIntegrityLevel in ("High", "System")
// try to capture something like /cfg C:\Temp\policydump.txt (quotes optional)
| extend ExportedPolicyPath = extract("/cfg\\s+\"?([^\\s\"]+\\.txt)", 1, ProcessCommandLine)
| where isnotempty(ExportedPolicyPath)
| extend ExportedPolicyFileName = tostring(split(ExportedPolicyPath, "\\")[-1])
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine, ExportedPolicyPath, ExportedPolicyFileName
| summarize LatestExportTime = max(TimeGenerated)
by DeviceName, AccountName, ExportedPolicyPath, ExportedPolicyFileName
| order by LatestExportTime desc | pass | 2 | 70.60s | 0.0392 |
| o3-mini-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0348 |
| o3-mini-low | output_mysecpol.txt | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName =~ "SecEdit.exe"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "/export"
// Optionally, ensure the process was elevated
// | where ProcessTokenElevation has "Elevated"
| extend ExportedFile = extract("(?i)/cfg\\s+(\\S+)", 1, ProcessCommandLine)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, ExportedFile | pass | 2 | 17.92s | 0.0151 |
| o4-mini-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0471 |
| o4-mini-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0366 |