hashcat Forum

Hello! I would greatly appreciate your help as I am sure you are much more knowledgeable about this than me. Hashcat has not been working for me for a while as I constantly receive a "dictionary cache hit" message as soon as hashcat starts running. I am not able to crack even the simple md5sum for "password". When running the command as shown below, rockyou.txt exhausts after 20 seconds of running which is ridiculously fast for my specs.

hashcat -m 0 hash /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt

Host memory required for this attack: 64 MB

Dictionary cache hit:
* Filename..: /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt
* Passwords.: 14344385
* Bytes.....: 139921507
* Keyspace..: 14344385

[s]tatus [p]ause [b]ypass [c]heckpoint [q]uit =>

Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Exhausted
Hash.Name........: MD5
Hash.Target......: 286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4
Time.Started.....: Mon Jul 27 21:07:33 2020 (17 secs)
Time.Estimated...: Mon Jul 27 21:07:50 2020 (0 secs)
Guess.Base.......: File (/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt)
Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#1.........: 809.3 kH/s (1.00ms) @ Accel:1024 Loops:1 Thr:1 Vec:8
Recovered........: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests
Progress.........: 14344385/14344385 (100.00%)
Rejected.........: 3094/14344385 (0.02%)
Restore.Point....: 14344385/14344385 (100.00%)
Restore.Sub.#1...: Salt:0 Amplifier:0-1 Iteration:0-1
Candidates.#1....: $HEX[21217265626f756e642121] -> $HEX[042a0337c2a156616d6f732103]

Started: Mon Jul 27 21:06:02 2020
Stopped: Mon Jul 27 21:07:51 2020

I'd sincerely appreciate any insight into this. Thank you so much!

You're cracking "password\n", not "password":

Code:
$ echo -n 'password' | md5sum

5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99  -

$ echo 'password' | md5sum

286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4  -

Most passwords are stored without trailing linefeeds. It looks like you may have generated the hash yourself on the command line?

Welcome the club. We all did it at some point. Smile

Oh man this is embarrassing. I really appreciate your help as I have been scratching my head on this for a while! All the best!

poopybrown

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