macOS - mask attack doesn't work
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I'm having a problem where wordlist attacks work just how you'd expect, but brute-force / mask attacks never recover any passwords. For example when I run this command:

Code:
hashcat -a 3 3c68f35450c4b594072841cfc1c5785f ?l?l?l?l?l?l?l?l


hashcat will finish within a second not having recovered any hashes. The specified hash is the MD5 result of "thistest".

Code:
Session.Name...: hashcat
Status.........: Exhausted
Input.Mode.....: Mask (?l?l?l?l?l?l?l?l) [8]
Hash.Target....: 3c68f35450c4b594072841cfc1c5785f
Hash.Type......: MD5
Time.Started...: 0 secs
Speed.Dev.#2...:   700.6 GH/s (0.05ms)
Recovered......: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts
Progress.......: 208827064576/208827064576 (100.00%)
Rejected.......: 0/208827064576 (0.00%)

I'm confused by this because it should've recovered my hash, but it didn't. Also the processing rate of 700GH/s sounds absurd. I'm running macOS 10.11.4 and hashcat 3.10.

Any ideas?


Messages In This Thread
macOS - mask attack doesn't work - by pietz - 10-09-2016, 10:53 PM
RE: macOS - mask attack doesn't work - by rico - 10-10-2016, 12:14 PM
RE: macOS - mask attack doesn't work - by pietz - 10-10-2016, 12:54 PM
RE: macOS - mask attack doesn't work - by atom - 10-10-2016, 05:14 PM
RE: macOS - mask attack doesn't work - by pietz - 10-10-2016, 06:15 PM
RE: macOS - mask attack doesn't work - by magnum - 10-10-2016, 10:37 PM
RE: macOS - mask attack doesn't work - by pietz - 10-10-2016, 11:47 PM