Help on hashcat syntax

[zerohax]

hi i have the hash password (12345678...) and salt(abcde),

so i have a file named hash.txt which contains passwordalt = 12345678...:abcde

im using

hashcat -m 10 -a 0 hash.txt /my/wordlist
-m 10 for (md5($pass.$salt)

and im getting line-length exception error. did i make any mistake? Thanks!!!

[DanielG]

If your hash (12345678...) is not 32 characters long, then you can get that error. Because that means it is probably not MD5. See https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes for examples of how your hash should look.

[zerohax]

If your hash (12345678...) is not 32 characters long, then you can get that error. Because that means it is probably not MD5. See https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes for examples of how your hash should look.

hi it is 32 characters long i just put in 123456... for example but it looks like this d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249

[DanielG]

Okay that is weird, if I make a file hash.txt with d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249:abcdefghj I get:

./hashcat -m 10 -a 0 hash.txt wordlist.txt
[...]
Hash 'hash.txt': Line-length exception
No hashes loaded

It won't read the file but it sees the text as a hash itself.

if you just run ./hashcat you'll see:

Usage: ./hashcat [options]... hash|hashfile|hccapfile [dictionary|mask|directory]...

which means hashfile should be possible there?

I don't know why this error occurs

[philsmd]

please make sure that the file hash.txt is located in the correct directory and is really named like this.

It happens all the time that users save the file within a different folder or with a slightly different file name and wonder why hashcat can't find the file. Please double-check

[DanielG]

$ ls h*
hashcat hashcat.hctune hashcat.potfile 
hashcat.dictstat hashcat.log hashcat.potfile.old 
hashcat.hcstat hashcat.pot hahs.txt

Oh wow just as philsmd says, make sure you don't make typo's and that the file is in the dir.

[zerohax]

Okay that is weird, if I make a file hash.txt with d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249:abcdefghj I get:

./hashcat -m 10 -a 0 hash.txt wordlist.txt
[...]
Hash 'hash.txt': Line-length exception
No hashes loaded

It won't read the file but it sees the text as a hash itself.

if you just run ./hashcat you'll see:

Usage: ./hashcat [options]... hash|hashfile|hccapfile [dictionary|mask|directory]...

which means hashfile should be possible there?

I don't know why this error occurs

Hi it seems that my salt is too long, I tried removing some characters and it proceeded. Does hashcat have some workaround on long salts? Thank you!

[zerohax]

Sorry, I didnt put real hash and salt value for security purposes.. thank you.

[zerohax]

please make sure that the file hash.txt is located in the correct directory and is really named like this.

It happens all the time that users save the file within a different folder or with a slightly different file name and wonder why hashcat can't find the file. Please double-check

file is located in the right directory. I figured out that the error came from the salt being too long, any work around on this? thank you so much,.

[philsmd]

Are you sure you are using the latest version of hashcat?

What do you mean by too long? How long is your salt ?