Can it mix data read from wordlist?

[PaulNevada]

To enhance the attack...

[penguinkeeper]

You're gonna have to be a lot more specific than that. Could you provide examples of what you mean?

[PaulNevada]

In other words, does it work ONLY like this: it parses given wordlist and if no 100% matching string found - now results at all? No any +/- steps away from the concrete string from the file? Can it improvise - adding some characters to the read string to make it more complex?

[buka]

https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=rule_based_attack

[PaulNevada]

That's quite what I meant. Thanks!

[PaulNevada]

Meanwhile - am I right thinking it's impossible at all - in my current case - with the quite strong user password (forgotten one) which is 20-25 characters long and of mixed words + symbols + registers --> to get it recovered?