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Repeating Character in Mask Attack - arkofseven - 03-18-2021
So long story short I forgot the password on a rar file I have and I reformatted my PC so the master password on the rar program got wiped as well.
In my wordlist I have the charset "jade!" cause I'm pretty sure password used these characters but I forgot how many times each characters were repeated
My command is wrong so it only does check for j and then ja till jade! and terminates
I want to do something that increments each character up to I'd say 7 characters max and the set of the passwords it should try should contain something like these:
jadddddeeeeeee!!!!
jaaaddddddeeeeee!!!
jaaddddee!!!!!!!
Sorry I find it hard to explain since I just discovered hashcat a few hours ago.
RE: Repeating Character in Mask Attack - monyanus - 03-18-2021
Well, an easy way to do that would be to use a combinator attack:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=combinator_attack
hashcat –m 0 –a 1 my.hash mywordlist.txt
Lazy and quick answer, so not speed optimised. If the options are not that many, you can simply create a custom word list and run a combination attack with the word list. All combinations of all words on each line will be tried, starting with the fewest combinations (e.g. first 1 words, combinations of 2 words, combinations of 3 words etc.)
If there are to many options, you can divide the first and second part over two word lists, see second link:
#### Below the content of mywordlist.txt
ja
jaa
jaaa
jaaaa
jaaaaa
.... (meaning if you need more, add more repetitions type them here, this is not code or something)
d
dd
ddd
dddd
ddddd
.... (meaning if you need more, add more repetitions type them here, this is not code or something)
e
ee
eee
eeee
eeeee
.... (meaning if you need more, add more repetitions type them here, this is not code or something)
!
!!
!!!
!!!!
!!!!!
.... (meaning if you need more, add more repetitions type them here, this is not code or something)