Question Analysis
Which full interactive shell command, as recorded in the Linux process logs, repeatedly echoed a distinctive marker message to the terminal?
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Question ID
2/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
13%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo "$i, Atomic Red Team was here!"; sleep 1; done
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | Atomic | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "echo"
// Add a filter here for the distinctive marker message, e.g. | where ProcessCommandLine contains "<distinctive_marker_message>"
| summarize CommandCount = count() by DeviceId, DeviceName, AccountName, ProcessCommandLine
| where CommandCount > 1
| order by CommandCount desc | Incorrect | 1 | 13.16s | 0.0078 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0108 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2298 |
| gpt-4.1 | bash -c 'cp $HISTFILE $HISTFILE.OLD; if ((${#HISTFILE[@]})); then echo $HISTFILE; fi; echo "" > $HISTFILE; if [ $(wc -c <$HISTFILE) -gt 1 ]; then echo "$HISTFILE is larger than 1k"; fi; ls -la $HISTFILE ; cat $HISTFILE; history -c ; if [ $(history |wc -l) -eq 1 ]; then echo "History cache cleared"; fi' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("bash", "sh", "zsh", "ksh")
| where ProcessCommandLine has "echo"
| extend marker=extract("echo ([\"']?[^\"' ]+[\"']?)", 1, ProcessCommandLine)
| where isnotempty(marker)
| summarize Count = count(), FirstSeen=min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen=max(TimeGenerated), Devices=make_set(DeviceName) by ProcessCommandLine, marker
| where Count > 1
| order by Count desc, LastSeen desc
| project FirstSeen, LastSeen, Devices, ProcessCommandLine, marker, Count | Incorrect | 1 | 8.64s | 0.0208 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0359 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo "$i, Atomic Red Team was here!"; sleep 1; done' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"\b(bash|sh|zsh)\b"
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"\becho\b"
| summarize EchoCount = count() by ProcessCommandLine
| where EchoCount > 1
| order by EchoCount desc
| project ProcessCommandLine, EchoCount | Correct | 2 | 29.60s | 0.0087 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0017 |
| gpt-4o | sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo "$i, Atomic Red Team was here!"; sleep 1; done' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "echo"
| extend EchoedMessage = extract(@"echo\s+(.*)", 1, ProcessCommandLine)
| summarize Count = count() by ProcessCommandLine, EchoedMessage
| where Count > 1 | Correct | 2 | 30.60s | 0.0573 |
| grok-3-beta | sh -c 'ENCODED=$(echo "Hello from Atomic Red Team test T1140!" | base64); printf $ENCODED | base64 -d; echo $ENCODED | base64 -d; echo $(echo $ENCODED) | base64 -d; echo $ENCODED > /tmp/T1140.encoded && base64 -d /tmp/T1140.encoded; echo $ENCODED > /tmp/T1140.encoded && base64 -d < /tmp/T1140.encoded; echo $ENCODED > /tmp/T1140.encoded && cat /tmp/T1140.encoded | base64 -d; echo $ENCODED > /tmp/T1140.encoded && cat < /tmp/T1140.encoded | base64 -d; bash -c "{echo,\"$(echo $ENCODED)\"}|{base64,-d}"' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "echo"
| summarize CommandCount = count() by ProcessCommandLine
| top 10 by CommandCount desc
| project ProcessCommandLine, CommandCount | Incorrect | 2 | 22.23s | 0.0450 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | bash -c 'TEST=$(echo $HISTCONTROL); if [ "$HISTCONTROL" != "ignoreboth" ]; then export HISTCONTROL="ignoreboth"; fi; history -c ; ls -la $HISTFILE # " ls -la $HISTFILE"; if [ $(history |wc -l) -eq 1 ]; then echo "ls -la is not in history cache"; fi; if [ "$HISTCONTROL" != "erasedups" ]; then export HISTCONTROL="erasedups"; fi; history -c ; ls -la $HISTFILE; ls -la $HISTFILE; ls -la $HISTFILE; if [ $(history |wc -l) -eq 2 ]; then echo "Their is only one entry for ls -la $HISTFILE"; fi' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == 'ProcessCreated'
| where FileName in~ ('bash', 'sh')
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'echo' and (ProcessCommandLine contains 'while' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'for')
| summarize RepeatedEchoCommands = make_set(ProcessCommandLine) by DeviceId
| project DeviceId, RepeatedEchoCommands
| limit 100 // Limit results for practicality; adjust as needed | Incorrect | 1 | 22.71s | 0.0019 |
| o1-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.8073 |
| o1-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.7191 |
| o3-mini-high | art-systemd-timer-marker | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "echo" and (ProcessCommandLine has "marker" or ProcessCommandLine has "distinctive")
| summarize Occurrences = count() by ProcessCommandLine
| order by Occurrences desc | Incorrect | 1 | 251.49s | 0.0264 |
| o3-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0441 |
| o4-mini-high | bash -c 'mkdir -p ********** for file in /var/spool/mail/*; do if [ "$(basename "$file")" != "copy" ]; then cp -R "$file" /var/spool/mail/copy/; if [ -f "/var/spool/mail/copy/$(basename "$file")" ]; then echo "Modification for Atomic Red Test" >> "/var/spool/mail/copy/$(basename "$file")"; fi; fi; done' | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("bash", "sh", "zsh")
| where ProcessCommandLine has "echo"
| summarize EchoCount = count() by FullCommand = ProcessCommandLine
| where EchoCount > 1
| sort by EchoCount desc
| project FullCommand, EchoCount | Incorrect | 1 | 106.58s | 0.0341 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0357 |