Mask Attack with a "blank" value?
#36
I don't think that this mask would help or even be correct.
What -a 3 -1 charset --increment --increment-min 10 --increment-max 30
?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASSWORD?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

means is that hashcat will use the charset defined by --custom-charset1 (or short -1, "dash one") and increment the mask starting with length 10 e.g. if we convert that to a hcmask file it would be something like this:
Code:
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1P
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PA
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PAS
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASS
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASSW
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASSWO
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASSWOR
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASSWORD
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASSWORD?1
...
charset,?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1PASSWORD?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

note: this is completely different to the strategy/plan that we used above.
The mask will of course stop after the length of the password candidates reached 30 (included).
Furthermore: the masks soon become infeasible to brute-force. Depending on the charset (--custom-charset1 or short -1) the keyspace of the single masks will soon become way too huge and hashcat will also complain about (e.g. 64-bit integer limits, overflow risk because it will just be an infeasible huge keyspace).

I don't think that you understood --ncrement and the other parameters correctly. Please have a look at https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack for details on how masks work

Again, I still think that the best strategy is to use some well working rules and dictionaries. Brute-forcing should be only used as a last desperate option (and even if you use it you should have a good strategy, feasibility is very important!).


Messages In This Thread
Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-08-2018, 10:42 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-09-2018, 04:56 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-10-2018, 04:27 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-15-2018, 06:42 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-15-2018, 06:46 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-15-2018, 08:35 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-15-2018, 09:49 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-15-2018, 10:03 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-15-2018, 10:34 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-16-2018, 04:54 AM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-17-2018, 05:58 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-25-2018, 06:38 AM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-26-2018, 09:51 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-26-2018, 10:19 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-27-2018, 02:52 AM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-27-2018, 03:58 AM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-27-2018, 04:56 AM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-27-2018, 06:00 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-28-2018, 03:59 AM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-28-2018, 10:09 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 01-29-2018, 04:41 AM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 02-06-2018, 05:07 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by philsmd - 02-06-2018, 05:31 PM
RE: Mask Attack with a "blank" value? - by solace - 02-07-2018, 03:42 AM