Produced kernels

[pbies]

In hashcat's subfolder /kernels/ are produced files which seems like C/asm source code and other with ELF word - so these looks like a Linux binaries.

My question is, does the graphics card operate with Linux-like OS and that's why Linux binaries are produced?

[kurran998]

The files you're seeing in Hashcat's /kernels/ subfolder are indeed related to how Hashcat interacts with your GPU. The ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) files are a common binary format used on Linux-based systems https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/elf.5.html block blast. These files are produced because Hashcat uses OpenCL (Open Computing Language) to leverage the computational power of GPUs, which often involves compiling kernels (small programs) that run on the GPU.