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error with brute-force - Klaas-Vaak - 08-14-2025
Hi everyone, I'm new here and have been searching a lot before signing up. I'm quite new to hashcat and hope you can help me. I'm using a Flipper Zero and I think I have a good pcap file with 4 handshakes. I can convert this online to an hc22000 file. When I use this against a wordlist, it seems to search nicely without error messages. However, when I try a brute force, it starts and I quickly get the message: bridges: unsupported file type. What am I doing wrong, can someone perhaps guide me in the right direction? I am a Windows user with no Python knowledge. Thanks in advance.
RE: error with brute-force - atom - 08-14-2025
That does sound strange. Can you let us know the exact command line you used?
RE: error with brute-force - Klaas-Vaak - 08-14-2025
Sure, i place the file in the hashcat folder were the hashcat.exe is.
Than i run a command prompt as Admin :
hashcat -d 1 -w 3 -a 3 -m 22000 .\1.hc22000 ????????????
thxs for your efford.
RE: error with brute-force - Klaas-Vaak - 08-14-2025
i think i found the problem, i set 12 ???????????? for 12 digit passwords and without the ? it seems to be working
it is running now
very stupid not to try it first.
RE: error with brute-force - atom - 08-14-2025
If you want to do 12 digit, you need to do ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d
If you just omit the mask, it will wait for user input on stdin, probably not what you want.
RE: error with brute-force - Klaas-Vaak - 08-14-2025
Yes, I'm going to dive a bit further into this right away. It's a strange message for this. But thanks again for your effort.
RE: error with brute-force - atom - 08-14-2025
Can you please send a screenshot of the error message. It is indeed strange and confusing users so I can fix it.
RE: error with brute-force - Klaas-Vaak - 08-14-2025
i send a e.mail with a screenshot.
RE: error with brute-force - atom - 08-14-2025
thanks!
RE: error with brute-force - atom - 08-14-2025
It is clear now. This is not a hashcat bug. The error message is a bit misleading, but technically correct. What happens is that the shell (in your case cmd.exe) tries to match all files because the mask you used, ???????, is interpreted by the shell before being passed to hashcat. In your case, it matched a folder named "bridges" and then passed that string as a parameter to hashcat.
At that point in the command line, hashcat expected a .hc22000 file, but "bridges" is a folder. Therefore, it reported that this folder is an unsupported file type. So everything is working as intended.