Yesterday, 01:49 PM
Hello All,
Hashcat noob here, been trying for a couple of days to find a password for a .7z file I created and forgot the password for, so far with no success so it's time to ask for some help.
The password I believe is 25 characters in length, the first 20 of which are lower case letters, and the last 5 are numbers.
I'm sure I have the letters and their order correct but can't remember what order and exactly what the last 5 numbers are supposed to be.
I've used The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) and John the Ripper to get the hash, and I'm trying to figure out how to find the password from that hash by entering the letters I already know and I'm hoping hashcat can find the 5 numbers I can't remember.
Tried lots of things that I don't really understand and so far the only way I've been able to get hashcat to run on the hashfile is by either:
or
With hashcat.txt being the file the hash is in.
I did remove the filename (1.7z) from the start of the hash John the Ripper gave before trying anything with hashcat, which I think I was supposed to, so now the hash starts with $7z... instead of 1.7z:$7z...
The hash is 1074 characters.
If I try to use the Hybrid Wordlist + Mask option it always fails, if I try anything but the above commands it seems to fail.
While those above do seem to be working, I figure the process might be still running when the universe ends and the last star burns out, which is why I'm wanting to know if it's possible to somehow tell hashcat the characters I already know and just have it try to find the remaining 5 numbers I can't remember?
I tried setting the -O option so it wasn't maxing out the CPU on my old clunker and got a message about too many characters for the password, maximum of 20 I think it said.
Without the -O option I think it said there was a maximum password characters of 256.
I've been reading stuff and watching tutorials etc. but not getting anywhere.
One result I remember from searching claimed hashcat could only find passwords of a certain length or under, so instead of wasting more time and getting nowhere I thought I'd ask people who know these things.
Thanks
P.S. I see when previewing this post the forum software edits my post to include words I did not type when I mentioned that Distro?
What's the deal with that?
Hashcat noob here, been trying for a couple of days to find a password for a .7z file I created and forgot the password for, so far with no success so it's time to ask for some help.
The password I believe is 25 characters in length, the first 20 of which are lower case letters, and the last 5 are numbers.
I'm sure I have the letters and their order correct but can't remember what order and exactly what the last 5 numbers are supposed to be.
I've used The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) and John the Ripper to get the hash, and I'm trying to figure out how to find the password from that hash by entering the letters I already know and I'm hoping hashcat can find the 5 numbers I can't remember.
Tried lots of things that I don't really understand and so far the only way I've been able to get hashcat to run on the hashfile is by either:
Code:
hashcat -a 3 -m 11600 hashcat.txtCode:
hashcat -a 0 -m 11600 hashcat.txtWith hashcat.txt being the file the hash is in.
I did remove the filename (1.7z) from the start of the hash John the Ripper gave before trying anything with hashcat, which I think I was supposed to, so now the hash starts with $7z... instead of 1.7z:$7z...
The hash is 1074 characters.
If I try to use the Hybrid Wordlist + Mask option it always fails, if I try anything but the above commands it seems to fail.
While those above do seem to be working, I figure the process might be still running when the universe ends and the last star burns out, which is why I'm wanting to know if it's possible to somehow tell hashcat the characters I already know and just have it try to find the remaining 5 numbers I can't remember?
I tried setting the -O option so it wasn't maxing out the CPU on my old clunker and got a message about too many characters for the password, maximum of 20 I think it said.
Without the -O option I think it said there was a maximum password characters of 256.
I've been reading stuff and watching tutorials etc. but not getting anywhere.
One result I remember from searching claimed hashcat could only find passwords of a certain length or under, so instead of wasting more time and getting nowhere I thought I'd ask people who know these things.
Thanks
P.S. I see when previewing this post the forum software edits my post to include words I did not type when I mentioned that Distro?
What's the deal with that?