06-13-2012, 11:43 PM
(06-13-2012, 11:30 PM)Hash-IT Wrote: 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.
Quote: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 ?
Yes, thank you VERY much, and I agree about the genius part and us mere mortals. Seriously, I'm not an expert. One question given the above error. Do I paste this in the the "mask" field?
-a 3: password12?d?d?d?d?d
That is what I did to get the posted entire command line with the resulting "unknown option -- a error."