I have 4 images that I moved to a folder called Record and I archive the folder into a RAR file. The RAR file is ~20 MB large. I forgot the password to the file and I’m trying to recover it using Hashcat.

I am using Kali Linux and my first step is to get the hash from the RAR file using rar2john. The hash file did get generated but it was about 8 MB large. When I attempted to crack it using hashcat, I got the error that oversize line detected and I believe it failed due to the size of the hash being too large.

I don’t understand why the hash file is so large for the archive and what’s the work around here.