Hashcat not getting any candidates from maskprocessor

[philsmd]

did you try if the maskprocessor command works at all ? does the left part produce any candidates if used alone:
./mp64.bin -i 1:8 ?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a

also the start is probably very small with length 1, only lengh 2, only length 3 etc so it might take some while, therefore I would suggest testing something like this (after you made sure that mp64 works as expected, see above):

Code:

mp64 ?a?a?a?a?a | ./hashcat --stdout

just to test if the input/output works (there might be a little bit of startup lag, because hashcat needs a couple of password candidates to start)


I think you could also just use a hashcat mask file (hcmask) for the padding. e.g. something like this:

Code:

00,?a?a?a?a?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
00,?a?a?a?a?a?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
00,?a?a?a?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
00,?a?a?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
00,?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
00,?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
00,?a?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
00,?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

and the command would of course need to include the --hex-charset switch

Code:

hashcat -m 100 -a 3 --hex-charset hash.txt a.hcmask

where a.hcmask is the above hcmask file with all the 8 masks (random order or sorted, however you like ... normally the masks with a lot of ?a?a?a?a... at the beginning can accelerate much much more than others, because of larger keyspace and larger charset at the left side of the mask)