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Hi all,

I'm attempting to crack an NTLM hash, it's only 8-digits (according to a cracking service I used) and am having a number of issues.

First of all, here's what my current command looks like:
hashcat-cli64.exe hashcat -a 3 -1 ?a -m 1000 -o complete.txt -n 4 hashfile hash.txt

Originally I had a "--pw-min=8" but hashcat said that's only used for a prince attack (the wiki shows it's used for brute force as well?)

Right now when I run the command, it reports the following:

C:\hashcat>hashcat-cli64.exe hashcat -a 3 -1 ?a -m 1000 -o complete.txt -n 4 hashfile hash.txt
Initializing hashcat v0.50 with 4 threads and 32mb segment-size...



hashcat: No such file or directory

Any help is appreciated, I just want to brute force this password, by whatever means possible.

"hashcat: No such file or directory"

because there is no file called "hashcat" in the same folder hashcat-cli64.exe is in.

So put your NTLM hash into a file called hash.txt and save it to the hashcat-cli64.exe folder.

Then try this command instead (tries all 8-digit numbers):

hashcat-cli64.exe hash.txt -a 3 -m 1000 -o complete.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d