Hashcat slows down after staring attack.
#1
Hi everyone.    

I have a Titan xp getting awesome bench marks.  But When it comes down to using hashcat it slows down drastically.

I am testing it on hash mode 2500 wpa,  benchmarked hash mode 2500.  655.8 kH's 

When I go to use hashcat it slows down to 8000-9000 H's.

Test file password is 1234567890

And when I use hashcat with -w 3 or 4. It just hangs at 0% progress.    But gpu is utilized almost 100%

What do I have to fix to make it work properly ?

Gpu drivers 390.25
Cuda Toolkit 9.1
#2
This is my Benchmark

Code:
root@The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali):~# hashcat -b -w 4 hashcat (v4.0.1) starting in benchmark mode... OpenCL Platform #1: The pocl project ==================================== * Device #1: pthread-AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor, skipped. OpenCL Platform #2: NVIDIA Corporation ====================================== * Device #2: TITAN Xp, 3048/12195 MB allocatable, 30MCU Benchmark relevant options: =========================== * --workload-profile=4 Hashmode: 900 - MD4 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 20104.9 MH/s (398.17ms) Hashmode: 0 - MD5 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 16203.2 MH/s (247.58ms) Hashmode: 5100 - Half MD5 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 15691.6 MH/s (257.12ms) Hashmode: 100 - SHA1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  9580.3 MH/s (417.97ms) Hashmode: 1400 - SHA-256 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3699.9 MH/s (539.88ms) Hashmode: 10800 - SHA-384 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   205.5 MH/s (611.88ms) Hashmode: 1700 - SHA-512 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   206.2 MH/s (608.33ms) Hashmode: 5000 - SHA-3 (Keccak) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1386.5 MH/s (717.46ms) Hashmode: 10100 - SipHash Speed.Dev.#2.....: 43129.3 MH/s (185.94ms) Hashmode: 14900 - Skip32 (PT = $salt, key = $pass) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  4961.5 MH/s (6.61ms) Hashmode: 6000 - RIPEMD-160 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  6610.5 MH/s (304.80ms) Hashmode: 6100 - Whirlpool Speed.Dev.#2.....:   365.3 MH/s (687.77ms) Hashmode: 6900 - GOST R 34.11-94 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   370.1 MH/s (680.01ms) Hashmode: 11700 - GOST R 34.11-2012 (Streebog) 256-bit Speed.Dev.#2.....: 76261.9 kH/s (814.93ms) Hashmode: 11800 - GOST R 34.11-2012 (Streebog) 512-bit Speed.Dev.#2.....: 76375.2 kH/s (814.93ms) Hashmode: 14000 - DES (PT = $salt, key = $pass) Speed.Dev.#2.....: 25353.4 MH/s (79.72ms) Hashmode: 14100 - 3DES (PT = $salt, key = $pass) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1755.7 MH/s (286.75ms) Hashmode: 400 - phpass, WordPress (MD5), phpBB3 (MD5), Joomla (MD5) Speed.Dev.#2.....: 10086.4 kH/s (377.70ms) Hashmode: 8900 - scrypt Speed.Dev.#2.....:   623.9 kH/s (10.90ms) Hashmode: 11900 - PBKDF2-HMAC-MD5 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 11689.8 kH/s (297.83ms) Hashmode: 12000 - PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  5316.0 kH/s (360.35ms) Hashmode: 10900 - PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1915.2 kH/s (472.44ms) Hashmode: 12100 - PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   689.3 kH/s (692.33ms) Hashmode: 23 - Skype Speed.Dev.#2.....: 13878.9 MH/s (576.41ms) Hashmode: 2500 - WPA/WPA2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   655.8 kH/s (370.58ms) Hashmode: 2501 - WPA/WPA2 PMK Speed.Dev.#2.....:   269.9 MH/s (0.04ms) Hashmode: 5300 - IKE-PSK MD5 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1628.6 MH/s (306.41ms) Hashmode: 5400 - IKE-PSK SHA1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   187.8 MH/s (331.34ms) Hashmode: 5500 - NetNTLMv1 / NetNTLMv1+ESS Speed.Dev.#2.....: 22556.1 MH/s (356.31ms) Hashmode: 5600 - NetNTLMv2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  2335.5 MH/s (428.33ms) Hashmode: 7300 - IPMI2 RAKP HMAC-SHA1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  2478.9 MH/s (401.35ms) Hashmode: 7500 - Kerberos 5 AS-REQ Pre-Auth etype 23 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   389.4 MH/s (321.02ms) Hashmode: 13100 - Kerberos 5 TGS-REP etype 23 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   426.3 MH/s (294.68ms) Hashmode: 8300 - DNSSEC (NSEC3) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  2941.8 MH/s (683.50ms) Hashmode: 11100 - PostgreSQL CRAM (MD5) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7306.7 MH/s (546.26ms) Hashmode: 11200 - MySQL CRAM (SHA1) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3117.4 MH/s (640.37ms) Hashmode: 11400 - SIP digest authentication (MD5) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  4851.3 MH/s (413.61ms) Hashmode: 121 - SMF (Simple Machines Forum) > v1.1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8474.6 MH/s (470.60ms) Hashmode: 2611 - vBulletin < v3.8.5 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  4726.4 MH/s (423.86ms) Hashmode: 2711 - vBulletin >= v3.8.5 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7536.2 MH/s (265.84ms) Hashmode: 2811 - IPB2+ (Invision Power Board), MyBB 1.2+ Speed.Dev.#2.....:  6741.4 MH/s (296.57ms) Hashmode: 8400 - WBB3 (Woltlab Burning Board) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1114.7 MH/s (452.00ms) Hashmode: 13900 - OpenCart Speed.Dev.#2.....:  2681.1 MH/s (747.18ms) Hashmode: 11 - Joomla < 2.5.18 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8062.6 MH/s (499.31ms) Hashmode: 2612 - PHPS Speed.Dev.#2.....:  4733.1 MH/s (424.81ms) Hashmode: 7900 - Drupal7 Speed.Dev.#2.....:    84571 H/s (714.60ms) Hashmode: 21 - osCommerce, xt:Commerce Speed.Dev.#2.....: 13950.2 MH/s (575.28ms) Hashmode: 11000 - PrestaShop Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7947.2 MH/s (252.20ms) Hashmode: 124 - Django (SHA-1) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8524.7 MH/s (470.29ms) Hashmode: 10000 - Django (PBKDF2-SHA256) Speed.Dev.#2.....:    97416 H/s (505.29ms) Hashmode: 3711 - MediaWiki B type Speed.Dev.#2.....:  5613.7 MH/s (358.28ms) Hashmode: 4521 - Redmine Speed.Dev.#2.....:  4293.5 MH/s (467.31ms) Hashmode: 4522 - PunBB Speed.Dev.#2.....:  4282.9 MH/s (467.16ms) Hashmode: 12 - PostgreSQL Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8064.0 MH/s (498.88ms) Hashmode: 131 - MSSQL (2000) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7992.4 MH/s (251.55ms) Hashmode: 132 - MSSQL (2005) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8010.4 MH/s (251.74ms) Hashmode: 1731 - MSSQL (2012, 2014) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   160.2 MH/s (784.69ms) Hashmode: 200 - MySQL323 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 71357.0 MH/s (28.23ms) Hashmode: 300 - MySQL4.1/MySQL5 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  5132.0 MH/s (390.78ms) Hashmode: 3100 - Oracle H: Type (Oracle 7+) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1387.5 MH/s (181.48ms) Hashmode: 112 - Oracle S: Type (Oracle 11+) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  6338.9 MH/s (315.96ms) Hashmode: 12300 - Oracle T: Type (Oracle 12+) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   117.8 kH/s (508.25ms) Hashmode: 8000 - Sybase ASE Speed.Dev.#2.....:   398.3 MH/s (630.48ms) Hashmode: 141 - Episerver 6.x < .NET 4 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8482.4 MH/s (473.22ms) Hashmode: 1441 - Episerver 6.x >= .NET 4 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3507.4 MH/s (572.77ms) Hashmode: 1600 - Apache $apr1$ MD5, md5apr1, MD5 (APR) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8010.9 kH/s (219.18ms) Hashmode: 12600 - ColdFusion 10+ Speed.Dev.#2.....:  2709.3 MH/s (368.47ms) Hashmode: 1421 - hMailServer Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3433.3 MH/s (582.95ms) Hashmode: 101 - nsldap, SHA-1(Base64), Netscape LDAP SHA Speed.Dev.#2.....:  9541.8 MH/s (420.19ms) Hashmode: 111 - nsldaps, SSHA-1(Base64), Netscape LDAP SSHA Speed.Dev.#2.....:  6365.5 MH/s (316.01ms) Hashmode: 1411 - SSHA-256(Base64), LDAP {SSHA256} Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3386.7 MH/s (590.85ms) Hashmode: 1711 - SSHA-512(Base64), LDAP {SSHA512} Speed.Dev.#2.....:   153.0 MH/s (822.48ms) Hashmode: 3000 - LM Speed.Dev.#2.....: 22981.7 MH/s (87.58ms) Hashmode: 1000 - NTLM Speed.Dev.#2.....: 22593.9 MH/s (356.12ms) Hashmode: 1100 - Domain Cached Credentials (DCC), MS Cache Speed.Dev.#2.....: 10651.2 MH/s (378.14ms) Hashmode: 2100 - Domain Cached Credentials 2 (DCC2), MS Cache 2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   531.1 kH/s (366.78ms) Hashmode: 15300 - DPAPI masterkey file v1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   114.0 kH/s (360.56ms) Hashmode: 15900 - DPAPI masterkey file v2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:    59511 H/s (514.16ms) Hashmode: 12800 - MS-AzureSync PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 15084.0 kH/s (396.92ms) Hashmode: 1500 - descrypt, DES (Unix), Traditional DES Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1382.5 MH/s (364.12ms) Hashmode: 12400 - BSDi Crypt, Extended DES Speed.Dev.#2.....:  2310.1 kH/s (585.03ms) Hashmode: 500 - md5crypt, MD5 (Unix), Cisco-IOS $1$ (MD5) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7994.2 kH/s (219.20ms) Hashmode: 3200 - bcrypt $2*$, Blowfish (Unix) Speed.Dev.#2.....:    21111 H/s (176.51ms) Hashmode: 7400 - sha256crypt $5$, SHA256 (Unix) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   169.9 kH/s (510.73ms) Hashmode: 1800 - sha512crypt $6$, SHA512 (Unix) Speed.Dev.#2.....:    16028 H/s (591.00ms) Hashmode: 122 - macOS v10.4, macOS v10.5, MacOS v10.6 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8584.9 MH/s (466.48ms) Hashmode: 1722 - macOS v10.7 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   243.2 MH/s (1032.90ms) Hashmode: 7100 - macOS v10.8+ (PBKDF2-SHA512) Speed.Dev.#2.....:    19725 H/s (709.41ms) Hashmode: 6300 - AIX {smd5} Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7968.9 kH/s (219.87ms) Hashmode: 6700 - AIX {ssha1} Speed.Dev.#2.....: 65196.4 kH/s (93.96ms) Hashmode: 6400 - AIX {ssha256} Speed.Dev.#2.....: 26305.0 kH/s (265.96ms) Hashmode: 6500 - AIX {ssha512} Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8926.6 kH/s (705.25ms) Hashmode: 2400 - Cisco-PIX MD5 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 24843.1 MH/s (322.91ms) Hashmode: 2410 - Cisco-ASA MD5 Speed.Dev.#2.....: 25553.5 MH/s (315.44ms) Hashmode: 5700 - Cisco-IOS type 4 (SHA256) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3725.5 MH/s (539.80ms) Hashmode: 9200 - Cisco-IOS $8$ (PBKDF2-SHA256) Speed.Dev.#2.....:    97569 H/s (504.49ms) Hashmode: 9300 - Cisco-IOS $9$ (scrypt) Speed.Dev.#2.....:    30548 H/s (116.28ms) Hashmode: 22 - Juniper NetScreen/SSG (ScreenOS) Speed.Dev.#2.....: 13562.7 MH/s (591.88ms) Hashmode: 501 - Juniper IVE Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7991.5 kH/s (219.17ms) Hashmode: 5800 - Samsung Android Password/PIN Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7263.7 kH/s (492.25ms) Hashmode: 8100 - Citrix NetScaler Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8346.0 MH/s (479.20ms) Hashmode: 8500 - RACF Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3842.9 MH/s (261.82ms) Hashmode: 7200 - GRUB 2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:    68937 H/s (710.80ms) Hashmode: 9900 - Radmin2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  6367.3 MH/s (315.57ms) Hashmode: 7700 - SAP CODVN B (BCODE) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  2059.9 MH/s (244.67ms) Hashmode: 7800 - SAP CODVN F/G (PASSCODE) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1373.1 MH/s (365.31ms) Hashmode: 10300 - SAP CODVN H (PWDSALTEDHASH) iSSHA-1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  9007.8 kH/s (398.55ms) Hashmode: 8600 - Lotus Notes/Domino 5 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   325.6 MH/s (385.80ms) Hashmode: 8700 - Lotus Notes/Domino 6 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   107.5 MH/s (291.45ms) Hashmode: 9100 - Lotus Notes/Domino 8 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1064.5 kH/s (368.74ms) Hashmode: 133 - PeopleSoft Speed.Dev.#2.....:  7928.1 MH/s (252.32ms) Hashmode: 13500 - PeopleSoft PS_TOKEN Speed.Dev.#2.....:  4763.1 MH/s (422.91ms) Hashmode: 11600 - 7-Zip Speed.Dev.#2.....:    14727 H/s (128.24ms) Hashmode: 13600 - WinZip Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1757.7 kH/s (260.83ms) Hashmode: 12500 - RAR3-hp Speed.Dev.#2.....:    56620 H/s (270.98ms) Hashmode: 13000 - RAR5 Speed.Dev.#2.....:    59500 H/s (504.91ms) Hashmode: 13200 - AxCrypt Speed.Dev.#2.....:   162.5 kH/s (308.23ms) Hashmode: 13300 - AxCrypt in-memory SHA1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  9477.3 MH/s (422.65ms) Hashmode: 6211 - TrueCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-RIPEMD160 + XTS 512 bit Speed.Dev.#2.....:   452.9 kH/s (273.18ms) Hashmode: 6221 - TrueCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 + XTS 512 bit Speed.Dev.#2.....:   691.2 kH/s (690.51ms) Hashmode: 6231 - TrueCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Whirlpool + XTS 512 bit Speed.Dev.#2.....:    55133 H/s (2174.01ms) Hashmode: 6241 - TrueCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-RIPEMD160 + XTS 512 bit + boot-mode Speed.Dev.#2.....:   813.3 kH/s (255.52ms) Hashmode: 13711 - VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-RIPEMD160 + XTS 512 bit Speed.Dev.#2.....:     1379 H/s (268.69ms) Hashmode: 13721 - VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 + XTS 512 bit Speed.Dev.#2.....:     1383 H/s (706.41ms) Hashmode: 13731 - VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Whirlpool + XTS 512 bit Speed.Dev.#2.....:       85 H/s (2239.72ms) Hashmode: 13741 - VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-RIPEMD160 + XTS 512 bit + boot-mode Speed.Dev.#2.....:     2768 H/s (270.37ms) Hashmode: 13751 - VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 + XTS 512 bit Speed.Dev.#2.....:     1738 H/s (563.16ms) Hashmode: 13761 - VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 + XTS 512 bit + boot-mode Speed.Dev.#2.....:     4380 H/s (567.17ms) Hashmode: 8800 - Android FDE <= 4.3 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1329.5 kH/s (368.17ms) Hashmode: 12900 - Android FDE (Samsung DEK) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   475.1 kH/s (505.59ms) Hashmode: 12200 - eCryptfs Speed.Dev.#2.....:    22212 H/s (341.50ms) Hashmode: 9700 - MS Office <= 2003 $0/$1, MD5 + RC4 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   390.8 MH/s (322.77ms) Hashmode: 9710 - MS Office <= 2003 $0/$1, MD5 + RC4, collider #1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   485.3 MH/s (259.40ms) Hashmode: 9800 - MS Office <= 2003 $3/$4, SHA1 + RC4 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   470.6 MH/s (266.64ms) Hashmode: 9810 - MS Office <= 2003 $3, SHA1 + RC4, collider #1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   531.6 MH/s (472.82ms) Hashmode: 9400 - MS Office 2007 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   218.4 kH/s (366.77ms) Hashmode: 9500 - MS Office 2010 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   108.7 kH/s (367.66ms) Hashmode: 9600 - MS Office 2013 Speed.Dev.#2.....:    14708 H/s (336.96ms) Hashmode: 10400 - PDF 1.1 - 1.3 (Acrobat 2 - 4) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   530.5 MH/s (469.76ms) Hashmode: 10410 - PDF 1.1 - 1.3 (Acrobat 2 - 4), collider #1 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   595.0 MH/s (422.34ms) Hashmode: 10500 - PDF 1.4 - 1.6 (Acrobat 5 - 8) Speed.Dev.#2.....: 25196.8 kH/s (8.59ms) Hashmode: 10600 - PDF 1.7 Level 3 (Acrobat 9) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3412.2 MH/s (587.80ms) Hashmode: 10700 - PDF 1.7 Level 8 (Acrobat 10 - 11) Speed.Dev.#2.....:     7433 H/s (957.43ms) Hashmode: 9000 - Password Safe v2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   510.7 kH/s (153.86ms) Hashmode: 5200 - Password Safe v3 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  1972.8 kH/s (236.96ms) Hashmode: 6800 - LastPass + LastPass sniffed Speed.Dev.#2.....:  3661.2 kH/s (518.17ms) Hashmode: 6600 - 1Password, agilekeychain Speed.Dev.#2.....:  5282.6 kH/s (340.49ms) Hashmode: 8200 - 1Password, cloudkeychain Speed.Dev.#2.....:    12017 H/s (508.89ms) Hashmode: 11300 - Bitcoin/Litecoin wallet.dat Speed.Dev.#2.....:     7298 H/s (338.70ms) Hashmode: 12700 - Blockchain, My Wallet Speed.Dev.#2.....: 71450.3 kH/s (35.56ms) Hashmode: 15200 - Blockchain, My Wallet, V2 Speed.Dev.#2.....:   537.4 kH/s (369.94ms) Hashmode: 13400 - KeePass 1 (AES/Twofish) and KeePass 2 (AES) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   183.9 kH/s (454.43ms) Hashmode: 15500 - JKS Java Key Store Private Keys (SHA1) Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8012.7 MH/s (250.17ms) Hashmode: 15600 - Ethereum Wallet, PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 Speed.Dev.#2.....:     7447 H/s (504.26ms) Hashmode: 125 - ArubaOS Speed.Dev.#2.....:  8526.9 MH/s (469.71ms) Hashmode: 15400 - ChaCha20 Speed.Dev.#2.....:  6604.1 MH/s (305.28ms) Started: Tue Feb 13 22:05:08 2018 Stopped: Tue Feb 13 23:36:06 2018

Code:
root@The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali):# hashcat -m 2500 newtest.hccapx -a 3 ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d hashcat (v4.0.1) starting... OpenCL Platform #1: The pocl project ==================================== * Device #1: pthread-AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor, skipped. OpenCL Platform #2: NVIDIA Corporation ====================================== * Device #2: TITAN Xp, 3048/12195 MB allocatable, 30MCU Hashes: 1398 digests; 779 unique digests, 1 unique salts Bitmaps: 16 bits, 65536 entries, 0x0000ffff mask, 262144 bytes, 5/13 rotates Applicable optimizers: * Zero-Byte * Single-Salt * Brute-Force * Slow-Hash-SIMD-LOOP Password length minimum: 8 Password length maximum: 63 Watchdog: Temperature abort trigger set to 90c Watchdog: Temperature retain trigger disabled. [s]tatus [p]ause [r]esume [b]ypass [c]heckpoint [q]uit => s Session..........: hashcat Status...........: Running Hash.Type........: WPA/WPA2 Hash.Target......: newtest.hccapx Time.Started.....: Tue Feb 13 23:43:42 2018 (2 secs) Time.Estimated...: Wed Feb 14 04:30:09 2018 (4 hours, 46 mins) Guess.Mask.......: ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d [10] Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   581.9 kH/s (6.52ms) Recovered........: 0/779 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts Progress.........: 0/10000000000 (0.00%) Rejected.........: 0/0 (0.00%) Restore.Point....: 0/1000000000 (0.00%) Candidates.#2....: 1234567899 -> 1798919999 HWMon.Dev.#2.....: Temp: 38c Fan: 23% Util: 98% Core:1911MHz Mem:5508MHz Bus:16 Cracking performance lower than expected?                 * Append -w 3 to the commandline.  This can cause your screen to lag. * Update your OpenCL runtime / driver the right way:  https://hashcat.net/faq/wrongdriver * Create more work items to make use of your parallelization power:  https://hashcat.net/faq/morework [s]tatus [p]ause [r]esume [b]ypass [c]heckpoint [q]uit => s Session..........: hashcat Status...........: Running Hash.Type........: WPA/WPA2 Hash.Target......: newtest.hccapx Time.Started.....: Tue Feb 13 23:43:42 2018 (15 secs) Time.Estimated...: Wed Feb 14 04:30:22 2018 (4 hours, 46 mins) Guess.Mask.......: ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d [10] Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%) Speed.Dev.#2.....:   581.9 kH/s (6.52ms) Recovered........: 0/779 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts Progress.........: 0/10000000000 (0.00%) Rejected.........: 0/0 (0.00%) Restore.Point....: 0/1000000000 (0.00%) Candidates.#2....: 1234567899 -> 1798919999 HWMon.Dev.#2.....: Temp: 45c Fan: 23% Util: 97% Core:1911MHz Mem:5508MHz Bus:16 [s]tatus [p]ause [r]esume [b]ypass [c]heckpoint [q]uit => s Session..........: hashcat Status...........: Running Hash.Type........: WPA/WPA2 Hash.Target......: newtest.hccapx Time.Started.....: Tue Feb 13 23:43:42 2018 (1 min, 31 secs) Time.Estimated...: Wed Feb 28 04:06:59 2018 (14 days, 4 hours) Guess.Mask.......: ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d [10] Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%) Speed.Dev.#2.....:     8161 H/s (6.69ms) Recovered........: 0/779 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts Progress.........: 737280/10000000000 (0.01%) Rejected.........: 0/737280 (0.00%) Restore.Point....: 0/1000000000 (0.00%) Candidates.#2....: 5234567899 -> 5798919999 HWMon.Dev.#2.....: Temp: 64c Fan: 38% Util: 97% Core:1898MHz Mem:5508MHz Bus:16 [s]tatus [p]ause [r]esume [b]ypass [c]heckpoint [q]uit =>
#3
You are trying to crack 779 networks. The benchmark only uses 1 single network to find out the maximum speed.

The huge number of networks will reduce the overall speed almost linearly.
The more networks that you want to crack, the less speed.

Try to test with the example hash from https://hashcat.net/wiki/example_hashes
it should give you the full speed because it only contains 1 single network.

The speed at the beginning of your run is not yet correct, but after some minutes hashcat will show you the average/correct speed. This is why it seems that the speed dropped, while it didn't. It's just because you have a large hccapx file with many networks in it.
#4
Can you please help me with the command to reduce the size? I been looking online and also downloaded the hashcat-utils v1.8 but cant figure out how to reduce its size.

I am able to convert the .cap to .hccapx

I tried WPACLEAN but that didn't work out

Can you please help with the command to clean\reduce the .cap file
#5
In theory you could just split your hccapx file into 779 equally large files (the size of 1 hccapx struct is also mentioned here: https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=hccapx , it currently is 393 bytes)

Code:
split -b 393 newtest.hccapx newtest.hccapx_

The newly created files newtest.hccapx_aa etc contain the individual networks.

You could also use more advanced tools like https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools to extract the networks correctly (and filter them) starting with the original cap file. You can also use the tools provided by hcxtools to get information about your single hccapx files (but be aware that this is a 3rd party tool and we won't give you support about these 3rd party tools here)
#6
I'll have to try that out next week. When I get back.
I also read on the forums wireshark to filter give that a try as well. I'll let you know when I get back next Tuesday

Thanks
#7
Hey thanks for the help. But I find using wireshark easy method to clean the .cap file.
#8
I would avoid splitting it into 779 files. Instead, open up the .cap in Wireshark and filter out one single handshake with a beacon for that network. Be sure the handshake is all part of one single exchange. Then go ahead and convert to HCCAPX. Sometimes, for whatever reason, Hashcat sees it as 2 networks after cleaning but it doesn't result in a performance drop and runs at full speed. WPAclean is awful. The tools that philsmd recommended from https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools are a much better and safer alternative.