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Help debugging Hashcat not starting... - absorbant - 07-09-2026
I have installed the latest version (7.1.2) on Mint Linux. I have two hash files obtained using office2hashcat from two Excel files which are identical but encrypted with different passwords. The first Excel file is encrypted with a 9 character password that I do not know. The second file is encrypted with the password 12345. I run these commands:
$ hashcat -m 9600 test_1_hash.txt rockyou.txt --show
$ hashcat -m 9600 test_2_hash.txt rockyou.txt --show
The second command runs as expected and reveals the password as 12345. The first command does not run. There are no error messages.
How should I go about debugging the issue?
Information:
I tried the earlier version of Hashcat from the Mint repository, version 6.2.6 with exactly the same issue. I compiled the latest version from source.
This is what the hash files look like:
$office$*2013*100000*256*16*6c6eb1e86e92f3c5ead4b8dc72978b3c*ee5eb1cb257e125f49205b3ebe2a7a00*cdb9c346c054cb7a3d887b7bf11a359a4d00021ae765206358d9674d2ac93a4d (< file 1)
$office$*2013*100000*256*16*79ef730a26e7f521229c9e008e4e6631*aba929dd045f29634cad98e23ddd8853*3e3b927531d9ca631b80ca8c148dcbc50b319fb436054a962447c9bd61ad5688 (< file 2)