Hashcat save/restore

[Citadel]

Hi all.

I'm having a bit of an issue with hashcat that I can't figure out. How do I save a session, so I can safely close my The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) machine? the only way I seem to be able to stop is by pressing CTRL + C



I'm using a line similar to the one below, piping in crunch.



crunch 8 8 abc123 | hashcat --session test_sesh -a 0 -m 2500 -o output_test test.hccapx
And restoring with

crunch 8 8 abc123 | hashcat --session test_sesh --restore
But it always seems to restore to a lot earlier in the session than when I exited?



Cheers for any help in advance.

[philsmd]

best solution is to not use crunch:

Code:

hashcat -m 2500 -a 3 -o output_test -2 abc123 test.hccapx ?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2

[Citadel]

best solution is to not use crunch:

Code:

hashcat -m 2500 -a 0 -o output_test -2 abc123 test.hccapx ?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2

That test code was just for observation, the actual crunch I'm using is almost the entire alphabet which would mean having 1TB storage for the word list. ;(

[philsmd]

My suggestion still makes sense, hashcat has built-in support for masks:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack

you do not need to use crunch and you do not need to use any word list, just use the mask attack.