Hitting my wits end.

[atomicwater]

what hardware/GPU do you have ? This is important information. (from your cmd output, I assume you are using windows operating system... but it's also always good to mention this info)

Try following this guide: https://hashcat.net/faq/wrongdriver


Furthermore, your command is incorrect, I've fixed it for you:

Code:

hashcat.exe -m 12500 -a 0 -w 3 -O "InputHashHere" word_list.txt

or for mask attack ("brute-force", see https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=maskprocessor) of 4 characters (symbols, letters, numbers), only password length 4:

Code:

hashcat.exe -m 12500 -a 3 -w 3 -O "InputHashHere" ?a?a?a?a

Thank you very much!

finally some progress.

so I have a dumb question , is there anyway for me to make a brute force mask attack that uses specific  letters (upper and lowercase) , numbers and symbols ? because I know some of them but I do not know the positioning and or capitalization of some of the letters.

so basically I want to use only "x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x" letters "y.y.y.y" numbers and "z,z,z" symbols , starting from a min of 4 combinations to 20 .   is that possible?