Hashcat Dictionairy Cache Hit

[royce]

You're cracking "password\n", not "password":

Code:

$ echo -n 'password' | md5sum
5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99  -
$ echo 'password' | md5sum
286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4  -

Most passwords are stored without trailing linefeeds. It looks like you may have generated the hash yourself on the command line?

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