ubuntublues, I had a lot of trouble working all this out when I started and I know what it feels like.
I suggest you stick with it as hashcat is an awesome tool once you "get it".
atom has explained what you should do and he has written a wiki for people like us. However things can get lost in the translation from genius to mere mortals so I will try to bridge the gap as I am much further down the pecking order around here.
A simple explanation of what atom has said.
Right,
-a 3 is the attack mode and 3 = Brute-force
password12 This is the fixed part or known part of your password.
?d?d?d?d?d Anything with a ? in front of it means it is a place holder or something that will be changed by hashcat.
d = digit or number (see what atom did there ?)
so...
Hashcat reads the command as, brute force this password using the permanent text "password12" then append numbers 0-9 in order at each placeholder.
I think that is what you wanted to do isn't it ?
You edited your post as I posted and I notice you have added a hash on there. I suggest you remove it pretty quick or you will have more problems !
You can leave most of it there but replace some of it with "x".
I suggest you stick with it as hashcat is an awesome tool once you "get it".
atom has explained what you should do and he has written a wiki for people like us. However things can get lost in the translation from genius to mere mortals so I will try to bridge the gap as I am much further down the pecking order around here.
A simple explanation of what atom has said.
atom Wrote:use this mask with -a 3: password12?d?d?d?d?d
Right,
-a 3 is the attack mode and 3 = Brute-force
password12 This is the fixed part or known part of your password.
?d?d?d?d?d Anything with a ? in front of it means it is a place holder or something that will be changed by hashcat.
d = digit or number (see what atom did there ?)
so...Hashcat reads the command as, brute force this password using the permanent text "password12" then append numbers 0-9 in order at each placeholder.
I think that is what you wanted to do isn't it ?
You edited your post as I posted and I notice you have added a hash on there. I suggest you remove it pretty quick or you will have more problems !
You can leave most of it there but replace some of it with "x".