Defining character length.

[philsmd]

Let's try to verify your claim. you said that the dictionary file does not contain any passwords shorter than 8 characters.

so let's try to run hashcat without any rule file and see how much rejected password candidates you get:

Code:

hashcat -m 2500 -a 0 captures.hccapx BLACKLIST.txt

because somehow this statements are in contradiction with your status display:

Code:

Rejected.........: 9762060/63333900 (15.41%)

15 % rejected means that 15 % of lines in your word list are smaller than 8 characters (or longer than 64, but that's probably less likely)

Let's first verify this claim about the "I removed the words under eight then where is Hashcat coming up with them"