Asterisk sign in hash?

[Burtie]

I've been following some tutorials on how to get the password from password protected winrar archives.
I'm a total newbie so it took me some time to even get things started.
It's my own rar archive but its old and I'm pretty sure I had some simple password for it.

So I used John the Ripper to get the hash (I think its called). But the problem is that the hash was pages long? Not just a few lines as in the tutorials. So after some reading I think I got what I need, only the most important line to use.

But it has asterisks in it (*), seven of them. Is that normal or am I doing something wrong?

[penguinkeeper]

Yep, that's perfectly normal. Archive hashes use the asterisk to delimit different fields and often the size of the hash scales with how long the archive is, so if you have a large archive, the hash will be bigger. There are some examples here:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

[Burtie]

Yep, that's perfectly normal. Archive hashes use the asterisk to delimit different fields and often the size of the hash scales with how long the archive is, so if you have a large archive, the hash will be bigger. There are some examples here:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

Thank you for replying.
In my case the hash starts with "$RAR3$*1*" and as I mentioned the hash is huge (367MB).
output.txt takes over a minute to scroll from top to bottom

It's not a locked archive, I can open it but need the password to extract what's in it.

I'm not sure what part of the hash I need to go further and I guess I'm not supposed to use the massive content in output.txt?

[zamgold]

Yep, that's perfectly normal. Archive hashes use the asterisk to delimit different fields and often the size of the hash scales with how long the archive is, so if you have a large archive, the hash will be bigger. There are some examples here:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

Thank you for replying.
In my case the hash starts with "$RAR3$*1*" and as I mentioned the hash is huge (367MB).
output.txt takes over a minute to scroll from top to bottom

It's not a locked archive, I can open it but need the password to extract what's in it.

I'm not sure what part of the hash I need to go further and I guess I'm not supposed to use the massive content in output.txt?

I can try to find the password if you give me a link to the archive in a private message, and if there is additional information about the password