Asterisk sign in hash?

[zamgold]

Yep, that's perfectly normal. Archive hashes use the asterisk to delimit different fields and often the size of the hash scales with how long the archive is, so if you have a large archive, the hash will be bigger. There are some examples here:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

Thank you for replying.
In my case the hash starts with "$RAR3$*1*" and as I mentioned the hash is huge (367MB).
output.txt takes over a minute to scroll from top to bottom

It's not a locked archive, I can open it but need the password to extract what's in it.

I'm not sure what part of the hash I need to go further and I guess I'm not supposed to use the massive content in output.txt?

I can try to find the password if you give me a link to the archive in a private message, and if there is additional information about the password