Question Analysis
While investigating process creation logs on a Linux device, you observe a privileged hardware interrogation step used to reveal virtualization details. Which utility was invoked?
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Question ID
14/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
88%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
dmidecode
Model Performance Comparison
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Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
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gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents | where ActionType == "ProcessCreated" | where AccountName == "root" | where FileName in ("virt-what", "dmidecode", "systemd-detect-virt", "lshw") | project Timestamp, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName | Correct | 1 | 25.16s | 0.0136 |
gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0111 |
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'dmidecode'
| project DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime | Correct | 1 | 12.65s | 0.0910 |
gpt-4.1 | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("dmidecode", "lshw", "lscpu", "lspci", "systemd-detect-virt", "virt-what", "dmesg", "hostnamectl")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessTokenElevation
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 10.77s | 0.0232 |
gpt-4.1-finetuned | dmidecode | // Query to detect if a privileged hardware interrogation utility is invoked
union DeviceProcessEvents, DeviceNetworkEvents, DeviceFileEvents, DeviceEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated" // Focus on process creation events
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "lscpu" // Looking for 'lscpu' command specifically
// Optionally narrow to execute as root (UID 0) or Sudo users -- for example:
// | where InitiatingProcessAccountName =~ "root" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "/usr/bin/sudo"
| project-reorder Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountUpn, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, InitiatingProcessParentCreationTime
| summarize eventCount = count(), earliestEvent = min(Timestamp), latestEvent = max(Timestamp) by bin(Timestamp, 1d), DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountUpn, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, InitiatingProcessParentCreationTime
| order by eventCount desc | Correct | 1 | 15.50s | 0.0177 |
gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0073 |
gpt-4.1-nano | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in ('dmidecode', 'lshw', 'systeminfo', 'biosdecode', 'xxd')
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 2.05s | 0.0005 |
gpt-4o | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ('lscpu', 'dmidecode', 'virt-what') or FileName has_any ('lscpu', 'dmidecode', 'virt-what')
| project InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FileName, InitiatingProcessCreationTime, DeviceName, ProcessId | Correct | 1 | 6.58s | 0.0382 |
grok-3-beta | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner DeviceInfo on DeviceId
| where OSPlatform == 'Linux'
| where ProcessCommandLine has 'dmidecode' or ProcessCommandLine has 'virt-what' or ProcessCommandLine has 'lscpu' or FileName has 'dmidecode' or FileName has 'virt-what' or FileName has 'lscpu'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, FolderPath, ProcessId, DeviceId
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 50 | Correct | 3 | 24.02s | 0.0918 |
grok-3-mini-beta | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux") on DeviceId
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("dmidecode", "lshw", "lscpu", "virt-what")
| summarize Utilities = make_set(FileName) by DeviceId
| project Utilities | Correct | 1 | 18.89s | 0.0015 |
o1-high | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName =~ "dmidecode" or ProcessCommandLine contains "dmidecode"
| where DeviceId in (DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, AccountName, AccountDomain, LogonId
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 30.23s | 0.3680 |
o1-low | dmidecode | DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by DeviceId
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName =~ "dmidecode"
or ProcessCommandLine has "dmidecode"
) on DeviceId
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, AccountName, FolderPath | Correct | 1 | 23.45s | 0.3119 |
o3-mini-high | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "dmidecode" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "dmidecode"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 21.60s | 0.0217 |
o3-mini-low | dmidecode | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "dmidecode" or InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "dmidecode"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FileName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 15.30s | 0.0211 |
o4-mini-high | dmidecode |
// Identify Linux devices
let LinuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform has "Linux" or OSDistribution has "linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
// Find dmidecode invocations on those Linux devices
DeviceProcessEvents
| where DeviceId in (LinuxDevices)
and (FileName == "dmidecode" or ProcessCommandLine has "dmidecode")
| project TimeGenerated,
DeviceName,
FileName,
ProcessCommandLine,
InitiatingProcessFileName,
AccountName
| sort by TimeGenerated desc
| Correct | 1 | 27.28s | 0.0156 |
o4-mini-low | dmidecode | let LinuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform contains "linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
DeviceProcessEvents
| where DeviceId in (LinuxDevices)
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "dmidecode"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 32.12s | 0.0139 |