LUKS Hash search is failing - what am I doing wrong?
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So I have a LUKS encrypted filesystem that I set up ages ago. When I was actively using it, I simply typed the password from memory when the prompt came up. I took a break from that machine for a year or two and... have forgotten the password. I know it was something relatively simple, but all my attempts to run various hashcat dictionaries at it have failed. I suspect I'm doing it wrong.

Environment: Windows laptop with hashcat 6.1. I've pulled several 'human readable' and 'everything but the kitchen sink' dictionaries. Last night's run went for 9 hours and didn't find the key. This was on a 15gig dictionary (!!)

The original image (these are mac / unix commands - i just use the windows box to run hashcat because it has a graphics card that works for it)


Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 13008633856 May 6 2020 crypt.img

-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxxxxx staff 26214400 Jan 18 14:34 crypt1.hdr


The crypt1.hdr is a dd 'slice' of the image, that should have enough data to include the keys:


Code:
$ file crypt.img crypt1.hdr
crypt.img: LUKS encrypted file, ver 1 [aes, xts-plain64, sha1] UUID: 3f6f590e-119f-432b-a7d7-94c2aabeb038
crypt1.hdr: LUKS encrypted file, ver 1 [aes, xts-plain64, sha1] UUID: 3f6f590e-119f-432b-a7d7-94c2aabeb038


On my windows box, I use:

hashcat -m 14600 -a 0 -w 3 crypt1.hdr --status ..\..\realuniq.lst -o found

The realuniq.lst is about 15gig

After 9 hours of running, I have 0 keys recovered Sad


Code:
Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Exhausted
Hash.Name........: LUKS
Hash.Target......: crypt1.hdr
Time.Started.....: Sun Jan 31 00:05:54 2021 (9 hours, 10 mins)
Time.Estimated...: Sun Jan 31 09:16:12 2021 (0 secs)
Guess.Base.......: File (..\..\realuniq.lst)
Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#1.........: 36718 H/s (57.62ms) @ Accel:256 Loops:256 Thr:64 Vec:1
Recovered........: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests
Progress.........: 1212336035/1212336035 (100.00%)
Rejected.........: 0/1212336035 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 1212336035/1212336035 (100.00%)
Restore.Sub.#1...: Salt:0 Amplifier:0-1 Iteration:26112-26314
Candidates.#1....: $HEX[e3808ae9ad94e7958ce8b685e5b091e5b9b4e3808befbc88e7b4b0e9a6ace4bfa1e4b880efbc89] -> $HEX[bfe9bea5d7b4]
Hardware.Mon.#1..: Temp: 73c Util:100% Core:1860MHz Mem:5500MHz Bus:16
Started: Sun Jan 31 00:04:18 2021
Stopped: Sun Jan 31 09:16:14 2021


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LUKS Hash search is failing - what am I doing wrong? - by ishmael - 01-31-2021, 05:46 PM