05-11-2016, 06:47 PM
(04-29-2016, 09:13 PM)jcleary47 Wrote: oclHashcat64.exe -m 2500 -a3 capture.hccap ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d
Am I correct in understanding this will run through every potential character and eventually should find my example password above?
?d is the charset for digits (0-9), so your example would guess 00000000-99999999 but would not find your example password. To find your example you would need to use something like ?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a which includes lowercase ($l), uppercase ($u), numbers ($d) and common special characters ($s). Since you don't need the special characters you could create a custom-charset (documentation) which would speed things up a bit.
Also, keep in mind that when using masks it only performs the attack against that exact string length, so a password with 7 or fewer characters would not be found. If you want to search for those as well use the -i flag which will start with a single character and work its way up to the length of your mask.
Good luck!