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Long unknown password lenght - ktf13 - 01-10-2025
Hi everyone,
I'm extremely new to password cracking, however I have an encrypted file that I must recover as it has very important family pictures.
Here's what I know:
Password is long, but exact length is unknown, possibly between 30-50 characters.
I know it uses various combinations of passwords I've used in the past, it uses 15-20 character long passwords in duplicate and then the rest is a combination of blocks of 4, 2 or 1 of a select known few numbers and characters.
I've made a wordlist with all possible passwords that are included in the ending password, but how do I make hashcat try more combinations with them.
Let's say I have a word list like:
Example1
Example2
Example3
Example4
[and so on]
Example 130
Example 131
What attack exactly would make hashcat try all of these inputs combined up to a max of lets say 8 inputs pooled together including wordlist input repetitions like for example it would try a combination like:
Example1Example55Example62Example55Example41Example32Example85Example77
but also include shorter pooled combinations like
Example44Example7Example32
Sorry if this post seems basic, just putting things into terms I'm comfortable with.
Currently the line im running (to exhaustion) is
hashcat -m 13721 -a 1 -w 4 C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\target\target_hash.tc C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\wordlist1.txt C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\wordlist2.txt
Any help would be appreciated, if possible in a straightforward and easy way for a beginner to understand.
Thank you all for reading!
RE: Long unknown password lenght - b8vr - 01-10-2025
Look for combinatorX in hashcat_utils. You run it with the wordlists you want and then pipe it into hashcat. You seem to run it in Windows, so using fx powershaell:
CombinatorX <wordlists> | hashcat -m13721 -a0
RE: Long unknown password lenght - ktf13 - 01-10-2025
(01-10-2025, 01:31 AM)b8vr Wrote: Look for combinatorX in hashcat_utils. You run it with the wordlists you want and then pipe it into hashcat. You seem to run it in Windows, so using fx powershaell:
CombinatorX <wordlists> | hashcat -m13721 -a0
Thanks a lot for the help! But where is combinatorX located, I cant find the CombinatorX.exe in the hashcat_utils? I read you have to build it from the source is that true? I never did that before idk where to start
combinatorX : The term 'combinatorX' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program.
RE: Long unknown password lenght - slyexe - 01-10-2025
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat-utils/releases/
It has precompiled binaries. Download the .7z
RE: Long unknown password lenght - ktf13 - 01-11-2025
I already downloaded that file and I only see Combinator.bin, Combinator.exe and combinator3.exe and .bin. So how do I get to CombinatorX?
RE: Long unknown password lenght - b8vr - 01-11-2025
You have to compile it yourself:
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-11938.html