I have been doing some test on password strength using arabic passwords and try to crack it using hashcat and when i used a non salted hash like a custom generated md5 hash and tried using --hex-charset parameter and it works like a charm but when i try it on pdf files it is not working i even decreased the password to 1 character
in case you are wondering:
1.maybe the pseudo random salt generator takes chars from the password itself
2.the password hashing algorithm stores the password in unknown charset format when the password is from non-English chars
So my question is:
1.is there another workaround on this(is it possible)?
2.if my 2nd guess is correct please tell me what charset?
in case you are wondering:
- i followed this blog http://blog.bitcrack.net/2013/09/cracking-hashes-with-other-language.html but works only for non salted hashes.
- i used pdf2jhon.py to extract the hashes. yes using the above steps it can also work for english.
- --hex-salt is not supported on 10500(pdf format)
1.maybe the pseudo random salt generator takes chars from the password itself
2.the password hashing algorithm stores the password in unknown charset format when the password is from non-English chars
So my question is:
1.is there another workaround on this(is it possible)?
2.if my 2nd guess is correct please tell me what charset?