Stopping Increment in Hybrid Attack

[thevolcanogod]

I have a mask that must have 2 dashes at the very end but if I specify a mask of ?l?l— then it increments through ?l then ?l?l then ?l?l- before it gets to the format I need. Is it possible to stop the incrementing feature so it reads dictionary for left and then starts with the full mask for right?

[royce]

If I'm understanding you correctly, couldn't you just leave out --increment?

[atom]

Yeah, but then it would check just the ?l?l-- but not check the ?l--. The most easy way is to write it to a mask file and have two lines in it.

[royce]

With "reads dictionary for left" I think they're doing -a 6, and they want the mask on the right-hand side to simply be '?l?l--'. So just a single mask, no mask file required (hashcat -a 6 wordlist.txt ?l?l--)