Question Analysis
While reviewing Windows process events, you observe a command that recursively deleted a folder under the temporary directory. Use the process event data to identify which process or tool executed this recursive delete.
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Question ID
6/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
38%
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 ProcessCommandLine has_any ("del", "rmdir", "rm ", "Remove-Item", "cmd.exe", "powershell")
| where (
(ProcessCommandLine has_any ("temp", "tmp", @'AppData\Local\Temp', @'C:\temp', @'C:\tmp', "%TEMP%"))
and
(ProcessCommandLine has_any ("/s", "/q", "-r", "-force", "-Recurse"))
)
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FileName, ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 15.61s | 0.0083 |
| 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 | 0.2278 |
| gpt-4.1 | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("rmdir /s", "rd /s", "Remove-Item -Recurse", "/s /q", "-Recurse")
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any("temp", "%TEMP%")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, FolderPath, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 8.65s | 0.0231 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0424 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0067 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0015 |
| gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0537 |
| grok-3-beta | powershell.exe | let tempPaths = dynamic(['temp', 'C:\\Windows\\Temp', '%temp%', 'C:/Windows/Temp']);
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('rmdir', 'del', 'remove-item', 'rd')
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('/s', '/r', '-r', '-recurse', '/q')
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any (tempPaths)
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName, DeviceId
| union (
DeviceEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('rmdir', 'del', 'remove-item', 'rd')
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('/s', '/r', '-r', '-recurse', '/q')
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any (tempPaths)
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName, DeviceId
)
| order by Timestamp desc | Correct | 2 | 22.03s | 0.0414 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0073 |
| o1-high | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine != "" and isnotnull(ProcessCommandLine)
// Narrow down to recursive delete commands
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("rmdir /s", "rd /s", "del /s", "Remove-Item", "-Recurse")
// Ensure the deletion target is under a temp directory
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "temp"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine,
InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, FolderPath
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 39.02s | 0.3102 |
| o1-low | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("rmdir", "rd", "del", "Remove-Item")
and ProcessCommandLine has_any ("/s", "-Recurse")
and tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "temp"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountDomain, AccountName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine, FolderPath | Correct | 1 | 25.88s | 0.2175 |
| o3-mini-high | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0385 |
| o3-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0348 |
| o4-mini-high | powershell.exe | DeviceProcessEvents
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "temp" and (
tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "remove-item" and tolower(ProcessCommandLine) has "-recurse"
or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) matches regex @"rmdir\s+/s"
or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) matches regex @"del\s+/s"
or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) matches regex @"rm\s+-r"
)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessId, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 27.07s | 0.0125 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0491 |