[b] hashcat problems.. please help! thank you [/b]

[extrasilver]

hey all.. i'm new to hashcat and am having problems getting it to work

here's what im doing and my problem

if it helps you find an error.. the password is 10 HEX ( 0-9 a-f ) 10 characters long

root@The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali):~# hashcat -m 2500 -a3 /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap abcdef0123456789 pause
Initializing hashcat v0.49 with 4 threads and 32mb segment-size...

Added hashes from file /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap: 1 (1 salts)
Activating quick-digest mode for single-hash with salt

NOTE: press enter for status-screen


Input.Mode: Mask (a) [1]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (ab) [2]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abc) [3]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcd) [4]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcde) [5]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef) [6]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef0) [7]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef01) [8]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef012) [9]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef0123) [10]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef01234) [11]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef012345) [12]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef0123456) [13]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef01234567) [14]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef012345678) [15]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (abcdef0123456789) [16]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--

Started: Mon Mar 30 17:22:06 2015
Stopped: Mon Mar 30 17:22:06 2015
root@The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali):~#

[undeath]

you need to define a custom charset and a mask. Currently your mask is "abcdef0123456789".

[extrasilver]

you need to define a custom charset and a mask. Currently your mask is "abcdef0123456789".

thank you but in all honestly i don't know what you mean haha

do you have an example i see?

[kartan]

what undeath means is that your mask is literally only "abcdef0123456789". If you put it in there that way, hashcat will only try that one plain.
What you actually want is the whole keyspace. To achieve that you have to put it in like that:
hashcat -m 2500 -a3 /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap -1 abcdef0123456789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

[extrasilver]

what undeath means is that your mask is literally only "abcdef0123456789". If you put it in there that way, hashcat will only try that one plain.
What you actually want is the whole keyspace. To achieve that you have to put it in like that:
hashcat -m 2500 -a3 /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap -1 abcdef0123456789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

seem's to be working but its staying at Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1?1?1) [4]
all 4 cpu cores @100% load so i guess its busy doing something still..

what exacly is (?1?1?1?1?1) ? i really need to do some more research sorry but i am i'm learning

root@The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali):~# hashcat -m 2500 -a3 /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap -1 abcdef0123456789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
Initializing hashcat v0.49 with 4 threads and 32mb segment-size...

Added hashes from file /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap: 1 (1 salts)
Activating quick-digest mode for single-hash with salt

NOTE: press enter for status-screen


Input.Mode: Mask (?1) [1]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 16 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 16/16 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1) [2]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 256 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: 2.61k plains, 2.61k words
Progress..: 256/256 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1?1) [3]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 4096 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: 2.70k plains, 2.70k words
Progress..: 4096/4096 (100.00%)
Running...: 00:00:00:02
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1?1?1) [4]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 65536 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: 2.68k plains, 2.68k words
Progress..: 65536/65536 (100.00%)
Running...: 00:00:00:24
Estimated.: --:--:--:--

not to sure exactly what its doing tho.. is this basically like aircrack-ng? as i'm working with cpu
with aircrack i average 3200 k/s

[kartan]

cpu hashcat has increment as it's default mode, that means it is starting with 1 char and increments itself to the full length of the mask you supplied. For learning purpose i would suggest reading through --help to find out how to disable it.