Variable mask in the middle of the password

[royce]

I'm not sure that I fully understand the use case. Can you provide a contrived example?

For at least some part of the attack, you can hard-code a prefix and suffix:

Code:

$ hashcat --stdout -a 3 testtest?l?l?lTESTTEST | head
testtestereTESTTEST
testtestanaTESTTEST
testtestonaTESTTEST
testtestherTESTTEST
testtestterTESTTEST
testtestinaTESTTEST
testtestserTESTTEST
testtestyanTESTTEST
testtestrerTESTTEST
testtestustTESTTEST