need help setting up pattern/mask

[skaidar]

it's probably too long to brute-force, infeasible. maybe dict + rules is a better alternative ?

Code:

hashcat -m 14800 -w 3 -a 3 --increment --increment-min 6 --increment-max 10 --custom-charset1 '?u?l,!.??$' hash.txt ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

btw: the escaping of "!" and maybe also "$" depends a lot on your command line prompt (and/or operating system), you either need to use double quotes " or single quotes and it could be that you need to escape ! with \! etc


brute-force or mask attack is not a good idea here, because it will take very long and might be infeasible (not finishing within a lifetime with an average hardware) with those lengths > 8 etc

I don't know what else to try. Here's what I am told about the password:
"It is probably 6 to 10 characters. Maybe lowercase, maybe uppercase, probably some numbers and letters, and only certain special characters (! , . ? $) I think. It is probably something like Boris15! for example."