What is my password?

[rodrigo.Brasil]

welcome to the hell of character encodings

your hexeditor opened your file using utf-8 resulting in your shown hex BUT take a look at this, NTLM uses UTF16le for characterencoding and here we go

Soo... The correct input was:

Code:

val = bytearray.fromhex("5000c300a10073007a0074006f0072005a007300320030003100")

Now I really don't understand. I know NTLM uses UTF16le. And yes, I was doing it (but didn't realize in my first post). I put the core hash just because all this problems.

• From a utf-8 input, the hashcat convert to utf16le, hash it and check. 
  
• If it find, it convert back to utf-8 and save in pot file? 
  
• Did the hexeditor change something? Does it show EXCACTLY what I have in the file?
  

What do I need to know about encoding to not make mistakes? 

Because the same code doesn't worked for this case:

Code:

        val = 'vascão.321'
        hash = hashlib.new('md4', val.encode('utf-16le')).digest()
        print("db4f8d140ddc16d9b77578d07f1e9782") # value I want

So this use another encoding. What am I missing?