Status: Exhausted when exact password is supplied

[bobcat]

Hi all,

Just wanted to run this past you to see if I am missing something here. I am trying to "hack" my own WiFi just to establish a workable baseline process.

First, I am collecting come hashes

Code:

sudo hcxdumptool -i wlan0 -o pmkid-dump --active_beacon --enable_status=15

Then I convert them to hashcat format

Code:

hcxpcapngtool pmkid-dump -o pmkid-only -E wordlist

And after that I run hashcat with only 1 character brute-force mask, specifying the rest of the password verbatim (assume the actual password is myAwesomePASS1):

Code:

hashcat -m 22000 pmkid-only -a 3 myAwesomePASS\?d

Yet hashcat output is:

Code:

Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Exhausted
Hash.Name........: WPA-PBKDF2-PMKID+EAPOL
Hash.Target......: pmkid-only
Time.Started.....: Thu Jan 13 10:38:31 2022 (0 secs)
Time.Estimated...: Thu Jan 13 10:38:31 2022 (0 secs)
Guess.Mask.......: myAwesomePASS?d [8]
Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#2.........:      21 H/s (0.05ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:2 Thr:512 Vec:1
Recovered........: 3/5 (60.00%) Digests, 1/2 (50.00%) Salts
Progress.........: 20/20 (100.00%)
Rejected.........: 0/20 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 10/10 (100.00%)
Restore.Sub.#2...: Salt:1 Amplifier:0-1 Iteration:1-3
Candidates.#2....: myAwesomePASS1 -> myAwesomePASS5

Any pointers? Thanks!