A mask to match IPv4 maybe?

[kekerao]

What is the proper way of brute-forcing hashes using all ipv4 addresses as plain-text passwords?

With oclHashcat it can be easily done using a combination mode and two dictionaries, you can read about it here
https://www.phillips321.co.uk/2012/04/04...p-address/

But combination mode for cpu hashcat is different, it takes only one dictionary and attacks with combinations of words in that dictionary.

A dictionary of all ip addresses is going to eat a real lot of disk space, so it is not a good solution. 

Another approach is to use many masks to match various ip formats, like this
?d.?d.?d.?d -> x.x.x.x
...
1?d?d.?d?d.?d?d?d.?d -> 1xx.xx.xxx.x
...
...
?d.?d?d?d.?d?d?d.?d -> x.xxx.xxx.x
...
and so on. 

However, such masks may also match invalid IPs, and it will take many sessions to check all masks. 

So I wonder if there is a more elegant solution.

[NullMode]

Script the generation of valid IP addresses and pipe it into hashcat?

[kekerao]

Script the generation of valid IP addresses and pipe it into hashcat?

How do you pipe into hashcat? It doesn't seem to support stdin input.
And isn't it a bottleneck for hashcat?

[undeath]

hcmask file for all ipv4 addresses: http://pastebin.com/4HQ6C8gG

[atom]

cool thing, thanks

[undeath]

ugh, just noticed I screwed up there. This one should only generate valid ipv4 addresses: http://pastebin.com/4HQ6C8gG

[kekerao]

ugh, just noticed I screwed up there. This one should only generate valid ipv4 addresses: http://pastebin.com/4HQ6C8gG

Great, thank you! I've checked, and it does produce exactly 4294967296 ips