Unrecognizable pdf hash, seperator unmatched
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I digested some pdf file with john, yielding the hash below. John as well as hashcat do not seem to recognize this hash as indicated by the 'seperator unmatched' error.

A comparison with hashcat's example page suggests this file to be a v1.1-v1.3 pdf due its 1*2*40 part, but the following characters are different. Also, running
Code:
file <mypdf>
returns v1.4.

Being a newbie, I do not know whether two successive asterisks in this hash are reasonable ?

I have got a similar file the hash of which shares the part before 0229e...


Code:
$pdf$1*2*40*4294967239*1*0**32*0229e72bff896554bbb53dde4d6ec4793fd72cfeaf9ecbb6fcea2b474b8d2991*32*0e1718ca05f2040b4567b97bd452b77c4145a658933a9c4d9280bea8bf8d470f


Appreciate any thought, thanks.
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