Need help

[philsmd]

well, it's the prefix as I already told you. The speed with -m 20 will be slower of course, because salted.

We actually also have a FAQ and some questions like this https://hashcat.net/faq/morework
just to make sure you understand the problem.

There are of course some other things you could try:
like using maskrocessor mp64.exe instead of the --stdout mode

Code:

mp64 -1 ?l?d.-_ example?1?1 | hashcat64.exe -m 0 -a 0 -w 3 -O -o output.txt -r my.rule 120b8510fd7091bc12f890433f65036f

where my.rule contains the output of:

Code:

mp64 -1 ?l?d.-_ '$?1$?1$@$g$m$a$i$l$.$c$o$m' > my.rule

note: replace the quote '' with "" depending on your operating system and shell escaping rules $xyz normally are variables and need to be quoted

you could also test to a command similar to the --stdout command from above (but without hashcat at the left side and without --stdout) and use maskprocessor on the left side without rules.

you could also test to just use rules for the whole command

Code:

hashcat64.exe -m 0 -a 3 -w 3 -O -1 ?l?d.-_ -o output.txt -r part1.rule 120b8510fd7091bc12f890433f65036f dict.txt

where part1.rule contains e.g. the appending of "example" (^e ^l ^p ^m ^a ^x ^e) and some of the random chars e.g

Code:

mp64 -1 ?l?d.-_ '^e^l^p^m^a^x^e$?1$?1' > part1.rule

and the dict.txt contains the second part

Code:

mp64 -1 ?l?d.-_ '?1?1@gmail.com' > dict.txt

or use -a 1 with 2 dicts etc etc etc


but my guess is that the mask with -m 20 will be the fastest... and it really is very fast (just like not exactly the same speed as -m 0 of course)


I also noticed that you said -1 but always used ?a, that makes absolutely no sense