Posible bug using external salts -e

[eljolot]

Today I was trying to recover a big list of SMF hashes where the salts are missing. the hashes where recovered. but after a while was supossed to hashcat stop, but my surprise was that hashcat was not responding and in the folder where the hash file was stored also was a file .new, that file was growing up till 7 GB !!!! also any hash was removed from the hash files. this are my logs.

Command

Code:

hashcat -a 0 -m 120 -e '/root/dic/words.txt' -o /root/Desktop/h_smf.txt '/root/Downloads/sha1-Uncracked.txt' '/root/dic/antichat.ru.dic' --remove Initializing hashcat v0.44 by atom with 8 threads and 32mb segment-size... Added external salts from file /root/dic/words.txt: 817 salts Added hashes from file /root/Downloads/sha1-Uncracked.txt: 863601 (817 salts) NOTE: press enter for status-screen Input.Mode: Dict (/root/dic/antichat.ru.dic) Index.....: 1/1 (segment), 3168698 (words), 28857060 (bytes) Recovered.: 1/863601 hashes, 0/817 salts Speed/sec.: 2.97M plains, 3.63k words Progress..: 120368/3168698 (3.80%) Running...: 00:00:00:33 Estimated.: 00:00:13:59

after a while

Code:

Input.Mode: Dict (/root/dic/antichat.ru.dic) Index.....: 1/1 (segment), 3168698 (words), 28857060 (bytes) Recovered.: 7/863601 hashes, 0/817 salts Speed/sec.: 3.07M plains, 3.75k words Progress..: 2995652/3168698 (94.54%) Running...: 00:00:13:18 Estimated.: 00:00:00:46 Input.Mode: Dict (/root/dic/antichat.ru.dic) Index.....: 1/1 (segment), 3168698 (words), 28857060 (bytes) Recovered.: 7/863601 hashes, 0/817 salts Speed/sec.: 3.04M plains, 3.72k words Progress..: 3168698/3168698 (100.00%) Running...: 00:00:14:11 Estimated.: --:--:--:--

I was force to use Ctrl+c cause that file was growing And I have not enough space.
this are some screenshots.

http://i47.tinypic.com/jakqb5.jpg - 6GB
http://i45.tinypic.com/ae9rbq.jpg - 7 GB
http://i48.tinypic.com/2meqozm.jpg - 7.2 GB whe finally pressed Ctrl+C

screenshot from terminal

http://i48.tinypic.com/2mdf615.jpg --- at beggining
http://i50.tinypic.com/2dsntlg.jpg ---- after a few times I pressed Enter hashcat did not respond and finally pressed Ctrl + C

Maybe I'm missing something about the function -e ?

Thnx