How to handle masked passwords in input parameters?

[DanielG]

You need a different hashcat mode, not -m 0 but -m 20800.
See https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

20800 sha256(md5($pass)) 74ee1fae245edd6f27bf36efc3604942479fceefbadab5dc5c0b538c196eb0f1