HashCat and german (or other exotic) passwords? Help please.
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I have an understanding problem. I use Hashcat 3.10 to crack completely unknown passwords. I use most a brute force attack with ?a?a?axxxxx-mask. So far so good. With standard ASCII characters this works well.

But what if someone will add a German umlaut? For example, I have a German password from 4 characters. I start brute-force attack ONLY with standard symbols and ?a?a?a?a-mask:

hashcat64.exe -a 3 -m 2811 --session=1,2 -p : -o "C:\Users\Passwort\Desktop\test.txt" --outfile-format=3 --potfile-disable -w 2 --gpu-temp-abort=90 --gpu-temp-retain=70 -d 1,2 -i --increment-min=4 --increment-max=4 "C:\Users\Passwort\Desktop\hash.txt" ?a?a?a?a

Quote:Session.Name...: 1,2
Status.........: Exhausted
Input.Mode.....: Mask (?a?a?a?a) [4]
Hash.Target....: xxxxxxx
Hash.Type......: IPB2+, MyBB1.2+
Time.Started...: 0 secs
Speed.Dev.#1...:  4694.3 MH/s (7.78ms)
Speed.Dev.#2...:  4647.3 MH/s (7.79ms)
Speed.Dev.#*...:  9341.6 MH/s
Recovered......: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts
Progress.......: 81450625/81450625 (100.00%)
Rejected.......: 0/81450625 (0.00%)

Note the number of combinations: 81450625 

This is all right and understandable. Now I want to add the standard character set German umlauts.


I go to the directory "Charsets" and select "standard->German->de_cp1252.hcchr".

Now I have the command:

hashcat64.exe -a 3 -m 2811 --session=1,2 -p : -o "C:\Users\Passwort\Desktop\test.txt" --outfile-format=3 --potfile-disable -w 2 --gpu-temp-abort=90 --gpu-temp-retain=70 -d 1,2 -i --increment-min=4 --increment-max=4 -1 C:\Users\Passwort\Desktop\hashcat-3.10\hashcat-3.10\charsets\standard\German\de_cp1252.hcchr "C:\Users\Passwort\Desktop\hash.txt" ?a?a?a?a

But ... Hashcat shows me the same number of searched combinations: 81450625.

But that can not be. It still 7 Adicional signs come but said: üöäÜÖÄß. 

Quote:Session.Name...: 1,2

Status.........: Exhausted
Input.Mode.....: Mask (?a?a?a?a) [4]
Custom.Chars...: -1 C:\Users\Passwort\Desktop\hashcat-3.10\hashcat-3.10\charsets\standard\German\de_cp1252.hcchr, -2 Undefined, -3 U
ndefined, -4 Undefined
Hash.Target....: xxxxx
Hash.Type......: IPB2+, MyBB1.2+
Time.Started...: 0 secs
Speed.Dev.#1...:  3084.7 MH/s (8.27ms)
Speed.Dev.#2...:  3077.7 MH/s (7.79ms)
Speed.Dev.#*...:  6162.4 MH/s
Recovered......: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts
Progress.......: 81450625/81450625 (100.00%)
Rejected.......: 0/81450625 (0.00%)


What am I doing wrong? How can I make Hashcat take into account umlauts?

I have already read this  thread, but nothing understood. Sorry, my English is very bad (but German und Russian are good). 
Basically I have the same problem. I assume that my users use a win-1252 encoding (german Windows) with umlauts for their passwords.


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HashCat and german (or other exotic) passwords? Help please. - by takitano - 11-16-2016, 03:36 PM