ok if mask is defined on cli but not if in mask.hcmask

[joe123]

Hello

how it comes that if the NTLM-hast and the Mask are defined like the following in the CLI, Hashcat does
find the password,

$ hashcat -m 1000 -a 3 dell-ntlm-hash.txt ?d?d?d?d


but no so if the Hash and Mask are stored in files ?


─$ hashcat -m 1000 dell-ntlm-hash.txt dell-mask.hcmask
hashcat (v6.2.5) starting

Error message:
"The wordlist or mask that you are using is too small"


Thank's in advance for any feedback!

Joe

[Xanadrel]

You didn't use -a 3 for the second command, so hashcat is using it as a wordlist instead of a list of masks.

[joe123]

You didn't use -a 3 for the second command, so hashcat is using it as a wordlist instead of a list of masks.

Thank you Xanadrel! With -a 3 it does work perfect

Joe