hashcat Forum

Hello,

I'm trying to recover a password from an old Excel 97-2003 file but can't get hashcat to work properly. I hope you can help me. I'm using the latest stable build on windows 10.

For sake of demonstration I'm using the example hash from the wiki (hash mode: 9700). Below is my full command. I have tried putting the hash in a text file (utf-8) and using that but the error I get is identical. I have tried all hash modes 9700, 9710, and 9720 with the same result

Here is my attempt:

Code:

.\hashcat64.exe -a 3 -w 3 -m 9710 $oldoffice$1*04477077758555626246182730342136*b1b72ff351e41a7c68f6b45c4e938bd6*0d95331895e99f73ef8b6fbc4a78ac1a ?b?b?b?b?b

and here is the output with the error that is thrown immediately:

Code:

hashcat (v5.1.0) starting...

* Device #1: WARNING! Kernel exec timeout is not disabled.
             This may cause "CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES" or related errors.
             To disable the timeout, see: https://hashcat.net/q/timeoutpatch
OpenCL Platform #1: NVIDIA Corporation
======================================
* Device #1: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2816/11264 MB allocatable, 68MCU

./OpenCL/m09720_a3-optimized.cl: Pure OpenCL kernel not found, falling back to optimized OpenCL kernel
Hash '*04477077758555626246182730342136*b1b72ff351e41a7c68f6b45c4e938bd6*0d95331895e99f73ef8b6fbc4a78ac1a': Separator unmatched
No hashes loaded.

Started: Wed Jun 12 17:46:37 2019
Stopped: Wed Jun 12 17:46:37 2019

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thankful for any help

You need to escape special characters your shell interprets. Read up on how to use your shell or put the hash in a txt file.

(06-12-2019, 06:19 PM)undeath Wrote: [ -> ]You need to escape special characters your shell interprets. Read up on how to use your shell or put the hash in a txt file.

Thanks for the reply! However, as I said I "have tried putting the hash in a text file (utf-8) and using that but the error I get is identical"

Edit: I tried again and it worked. I must have been doing something wrong yesterday when I used a text file.