Please correct my command regarding on bruteforcing/mask attack

[curlyboi]

Please help me with this problem ,mates .

Here's what you're looking for:

Code:

E:\hashcat>hashcat-cli64.exe -m 0 -a 3 test.txt ?a?a?a?a?a

That means crack test.txt with hashtype MD5 with brute force and mask "?a?a?a?a?a".

Now for the mask. ?a includes ?l, ?u, ?s and ?d. so that means that each ?a will be tried as any of those letters.

Another example: if you want to crack 3 digits numbers, you do a ?d?d?d. If you want 5 lowercase letters followed by 2 numbers, its like this: ?l?l?l?l?l?d?d.

If you want to iterate through different password lengths, use -i.
For example, 1-8char long password of UPPERCASE will for example be:

Code:

E:\hashcat>hashcat-cli64.exe -m 0 -a 3 -i --increment-min=1 --increment-max=8 test.txt ?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u?u

(notice that even though i have A LOT for ?u's, it will only iterate through 1-8 because of the parameters)