First: I am sorry for your loss. I lost my father a few years back, wasn't easy.
Second:
I have a machine that can hash Mode 9700 at a rate of 1302.6 MH/s (approx 500x the rate of your output above).
Assuming you are more interested in recovering the data than learning hashcat, I would be willing to let my machine attempt to recover this hash for you for a day or so using my wordlists and rulesets collected over time.
If you are interested, PM me.
Also: as a bit of a pet-project, I have been creating a wordlist from the haveibeenpwned (https://haveibeenpwned.com/) hashlist. If you put your father's email(s) in the search box, does it show that he was compromised at some point in the past? If so, I have decoded ~670million of those passwords (~90 million to go), and could provide you a wordlist of those 670M cantidates
Thanks,
Wallacebw
Second:
I have a machine that can hash Mode 9700 at a rate of 1302.6 MH/s (approx 500x the rate of your output above).
Assuming you are more interested in recovering the data than learning hashcat, I would be willing to let my machine attempt to recover this hash for you for a day or so using my wordlists and rulesets collected over time.
If you are interested, PM me.
Also: as a bit of a pet-project, I have been creating a wordlist from the haveibeenpwned (https://haveibeenpwned.com/) hashlist. If you put your father's email(s) in the search box, does it show that he was compromised at some point in the past? If so, I have decoded ~670million of those passwords (~90 million to go), and could provide you a wordlist of those 670M cantidates
Thanks,
Wallacebw