Rules doesn't work.

[MicroPanda123]

So i used cupp + mentalist to make dictionary and rules for it, when i created whole dictionary from mentalist my password was found, but when i used dictionary created by cupp and rules file made by mentalist, it didn't found my password. I don't know if rules file made by mentalist is broken or that problem with hashcat, but i tried in 6.0.0 and 5.1.0 and in both didn't worked.

[philsmd]

I can't give any advice about the other tools, but my recommendation is that you just should learn how hashcat works and the hashcat rules etc (see wiki, https://hashcat.net/wiki/) and just focus on hashcat.

You won't need to use the other tools at all. maybe you could add PACK (https://github.com/iphelix/pack) to the list of tools that come handy working with hashcat, but I wouldn't use that many other tools and afterwards not understand what is going on and whose fault it is that something is not working.

We also can't really help you here because you didn't really tell us what exactly isn't working. Is it a single rule that you want to test or troubleshoot ?

It doesn't make sense to start with thousands of rules and words in the dictionary... start with a simple example 1 word + 1 rule example and continue from there. see if it's mangling the words as expected and if not try to understand / troubleshoot it.

hashcat has many built-in ways to test password candidate generation and troubleshoot cracking hashes. for instance you could just use the --stdout option of hashcat

Code:

hashcat --stdout -a 0 -r one_rule_in_this_file.rule one_word_in_this_dict.txt

you will immediately see what the 1 single rule generates (.rule file) from the 1 word in the dictionary file (.txt file)