12-25-2025, 01:07 PM
Switch to pure brute-force mode 3 with a targeted mask for your pattern (alphanumeric + 1 capital + 1 special). Example for 8 chars starting with capital/special patterns:
hashcat -m 132 -a 3 -d 2 -w 3 somehashfile.txt ?u?l?l?l?l?d?d?s --increment-min=6 --increment-max=10
also example define custom sets with -1 ?l?d?u (lowercase+digits+upper) and -2 ?d!@#$% (digits+specials) for efficiency: hashcat -m 132 -a 3 -d 2 -w 3 somehashfile.txt -1 ?l?d?u -2 ?d!@#$%^&* ?1?1?1?1?2?u
hashcat -m 132 -a 3 -d 2 -w 3 somehashfile.txt ?u?l?l?l?l?d?d?s --increment-min=6 --increment-max=10
also example define custom sets with -1 ?l?d?u (lowercase+digits+upper) and -2 ?d!@#$% (digits+specials) for efficiency: hashcat -m 132 -a 3 -d 2 -w 3 somehashfile.txt -1 ?l?d?u -2 ?d!@#$%^&* ?1?1?1?1?2?u