if I generate a md5 hash with your input $HEX[706f657a6965] I get a completely separate result:
I think your hash is not correct. First of all, according to the forum rules you shouldn't post hashes and only if asked by admins/mods you NEED to mention the correct password.
I think you are referring to the status display when you say that there is a "?" somewhere. This can be a visual thing (and doesn't necessarily mean that the sequence of bytes that hashcat is trying is incorrect). The status display (prompt) might not show the password "correctly" depending on your shell/terminal encoding.
Code:
printf "po\xebzie" |iconv -f "iso8859-1" -t "ASCII//TRANSLIT" | md5sum
5453454a253f8840811af32c86d200e4I think your hash is not correct. First of all, according to the forum rules you shouldn't post hashes and only if asked by admins/mods you NEED to mention the correct password.
I think you are referring to the status display when you say that there is a "?" somewhere. This can be a visual thing (and doesn't necessarily mean that the sequence of bytes that hashcat is trying is incorrect). The status display (prompt) might not show the password "correctly" depending on your shell/terminal encoding.