Using Hashcat with vast.ai
#1
Take it easy on me here, I am more beginner than I realised.

Due to hardware issues, I am looking to enlist the services of vast.ai for the time being.

I have used the service before for other stuff, but not hashcat.

I have headed over there, started up a machine using dizcza/docker-hashcat/, changed into the hashcat directory and copied over my hccapx file, and then ran hashcat as I would on my local machine, only getting the error twice that no hashes loaded (once in red and once in orange). I have double checked, and my hccapx file is definitely in the hashcat directory. The hccapx file is the very same one I was half way through on my local machine, so I know the file is OK.

I can run the benchmark and all goes fine, but no matter what I do, it just keeps coming up with the no hashes loaded errors.

My other question is, I am halfway through a recovery on my failed hardware at the moment. Can I transfer the .restore file over and continue from there?

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks
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#2
(05-05-2021, 10:35 AM)StillBlue Wrote: Take it easy on me here, I am more beginner than I realised.

Due to hardware issues, I am looking to enlist the services of vast.ai for the time being.

I have used the service before for other stuff, but not hashcat.

I have headed over there, started up a machine using dizcza/docker-hashcat/, changed into the hashcat directory and copied over my hccapx file, and then ran hashcat as I would on my local machine, only getting the error twice that no hashes loaded (once in red and once in orange). I have double checked, and my hccapx file is definitely in the hashcat directory. The hccapx file is the very same one I was half way through on my local machine, so I know the file is OK.

I can run the benchmark and all goes fine, but no matter what I do, it just keeps coming up with the no hashes loaded errors.

My other question is, I am halfway through a recovery on my failed hardware at the moment. Can I transfer the .restore file over and continue from there?

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks

I use docker bnzm5270 / hashcat myself and never had any problems, Read the FAQ on the Vast website about How do I upload / download files to my instance.
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#3
(05-05-2021, 10:57 AM)marc1n Wrote: I use docker bnzm5270 / hashcat myself and never had any problems, Read the FAQ on the Vast website about How do I upload / download files to my instance.

Thank you, I will have a look at that docker image.

I just shoved my files on github and used wget to get them into my instance.

I can't help thinking perhaps I am running the command incorrectly or something.

It is a talktalk keyspace I am working on, and I am using the same command as I would on my local machine.

./hashcat -m 2500 handshake.hccapx -a 3 -1 ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTUVWXY346789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?

The handshake is the same one I was in mid recovery of when my GPU threw a fit, so I know the handshake is good, and it has copied over into the instance and the hashcat directory just fine.
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#4
Quickly trying bnzm5270, I get the same issue.


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#5
(05-05-2021, 11:25 AM)StillBlue Wrote: Quickly trying bnzm5270, I get the same issue.

Delete ? at the end of ?1?1? ... You tried mod 2501?

./hashcat -a3 -w3 -m2500 handshake.hccapx -1 ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTUVWXY346789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
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#6
(05-05-2021, 12:31 PM)marc1n Wrote:
(05-05-2021, 11:25 AM)StillBlue Wrote: Quickly trying bnzm5270, I get the same issue.

Delete ? at the end of ?1?1? ... You tried mod 2501?

./hashcat -a3 -w3 -m2500 handshake.hccapx -1 ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTUVWXY346789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

Unfortunately neither of those made a difference.

I have tried a couple of different dockers as well as a couple of different servers, and yet get the same every time.

The strange thing is I was running exactly the same .hccapx in Hashcat in my local machine, so I don't see how that could be bad.


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#7
I can't believe this, just tried the capture at:- https://hashcat.net/misc/example_hashes/hashcat.hccapx and it works perfectly, so somehow, although my capture works on my home machine, it does not work on the vast.ai server.

I will do up another capture and see whats going on.

Thank you for your help
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#8
Strange, I just recaptured, converted to hccapx using aircrack, uploaded to github, wget onto my instance, tried again, and still the same error.

Something strange is afoot here.
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#9
Are you using wget to download tge hccap from github? Are you downloading the github page on accident? Try uploading to transfer.sh and then wget the file in ssh.
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#10
its late, but

in your screenshots the mode/kernel tells that the minimum and maximum length for the password is 64, so ot has to be length 64

if you look at examples for 2501 it tells: Password: a288fcf0caaacda9a9f58633ff35e8992a01d9c10ba5e02efdf8cb5d730ce7bc

so your given mask is way to short and i think hahscat just skips to try these short mask because it does not meet the required length
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