hate_crack forwarded hashcat's $HEX[...] plaintext verbatim. A Hashview
that verifies plaintext literally hashes the string "$HEX[..]" and
rejects the batch. Decode $HEX to the exact bytes the server must
re-hash and send those on the wire (body is now bytes):
- UTF-16LE modes (NTLM 1000, MSSQL 1731): latin-1 code points -> UTF-8
- raw-byte modes (0/100/300/900/1400/1700): the decoded bytes as-is
- unsafe (embedded CR/LF) or unknown modes: keep the $HEX token verbatim
and rely on a $HEX-aware server
Also fixes the NTLM validation digest to use latin-1 -> UTF-16LE so
high-byte $HEX plaintexts verify instead of being silently unverifiable.
Verified end-to-end: the emitted wire verifies against both the old
(literal) and new ($HEX-aware) Hashview verifiers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
