[New User] Unlocking excel file-failed to parse hashes

[thedorkknight]

Hi,

I need to unlock a few old excel files and I chanced into hashcat by reading this article:
http://pentestcorner.com/cracking-micros...h-hashcat/

Follow through the steps mentioned but kept getting the "Failed to parse hashes using the 'native hashcat' format." error.

Command I use:

hashcat64.exe -a 0 -m 9700 --username -o found.txt hash.txt pass.txt

I have no clue regarding the password or the version of the Excel file is.

Please help. Heres the entire message that I got:

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hashcat (v4.1.0) starting...

* Device #1: This hardware has outdated CUDA compute capability (2.1).
             For modern OpenCL performance, upgrade to hardware that supports
             CUDA compute capability version 5.0 (Maxwell) or higher.
* Device #1: WARNING! Kernel exec timeout is not disabled.
             This may cause "CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES" or related errors.
             To disable the timeout, see: https://hashcat.net/q/timeoutpatch
nvmlDeviceGetTemperatureThreshold(): Not Supported

nvmlDeviceGetTemperatureThreshold(): Not Supported

OpenCL Platform #1: NVIDIA Corporation
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* Device #1: Quadro 2000, 256/1024 MB allocatable, 4MCU

./OpenCL/m09720_a0-optimized.cl: Pure OpenCL kernel not found, falling back to optimized OpenCL kernel
Failed to parse hashes using the 'native hashcat' format.
No hashes loaded.

[royce]

Sounds like the hash isn't in the expected format. If you try the exact same attack on the example 9700 hash here:

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

... does your attack work? If so, the problem is the format of the hash itself. If you post it (with most of its random-looking alphanumeric characters masked with "X"), the format might be identifiable.

[thedorkknight]

I have stumble upon the password of the files so I will close this thread.

However I have another question in which I will open in another thread.