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Mask attack issues - girithar - 02-16-2017
Hi All,
I recently faced an issue with mask attack trying to crack a bunch of NTLM passwords.
The command I used which did not work is: hashcat -a 3 -m 1000 hash.txt -i --increment-min=8 --increment-max=15 ?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
It tried all 8 character and did not crack a single password in the hash.txt list (There were a lot of 8 character passwords)
I tried a command without trying the mask: hashcat -a 3 -m 1000 hash.txt -i --increment-min=8 --increment-max=15
The above command cracked a bunch of passwords. (I know it takes a default mask and it is a smaller subset)
Not sure why the first command did not yield any passwords. Can somebody suggest or help me with this issue.
RE: Mask attack issues - atom - 02-16-2017
Should have cracked 8 length passwords. I tried locally and it worked fine
RE: Mask attack issues - girithar - 02-16-2017
(02-16-2017, 07:29 PM)atom Wrote: Should have cracked 8 length passwords. I tried locally and it worked fine
Thank you atom, Appreciate your quick response.
This is totally unexpected for me too. Any further steps to troubleshoot this issue.
RE: Mask attack issues - atom - 02-16-2017
If we both can't reproduce the issue, the chances that there's no issue is higher than it is user error